Polit and Beck Nursing Research
Chapters 1-6 Test Bank All Chapters
Included.
evidence-based practice - Answer decisions based on the best available evidence and clinical
judgement, and patient preferences, in making patient care decisions, and best evidence from
collegial research by nurses and other professionals.
research - Answer a systematic inquiry that uses disciplined methods to answer questions or
solve problems.
nursing research - Answer systematic inquiry designed to generate trustworthy evidence
about important issues to the nursing profession, ie nursing practice, education, admin, and
informatics.
clinical nursing research - Answer research to guide nursing practice and the quality of life for
nursing clients.
journal club - Answer involves meetings to discuss research articles
translational research - Answer research on how findings from studies can best be translated
into practice.
replication - Answer the repeated efforts of studies with different clients, different settings,
and at different times to ensure that the findings are robust.
systematic reviews - Answer a cornerstone of EBP and take on increasing importance in all
health disciplines.
innovation - Answer creative and innovative solutions to recurrent practice problems.
Expanded local research in health care settings - Answer small studies designed to solve local
problems.
, expanded dissertation of research findings - Answer the internet and other electronic
communications have an impact on disseminating research information, which in turn helps to
promote EBP.
Increased focus on cultural issues and health disparities - Answer the issue of health
disparities has emerged as a central concern in nursing and other health disciplines, thus raising
consciousness about the cultural sensitivity of health interventions and the cultural competence
of health care workers.
clinical significance and patient input - Answer research findings increasingly must meet the
test of being clinically significant and patients have taken center stage in efforts to define clinical
significance.
evidence hierarchy - Answer acknowledgement that certain types of evidence are better than
others.
inductive reasoning - Answer involves developing generalizations from specific observations.
deductive reasoning - Answer involves developing specific predictions from general principles.
paradigm - Answer worldview, a general perspective on the complexities of the world.
positivism - Answer logical positivism guided by philosophers such as Mill, Newton and Locke,
also referred to as modernism, in the humanities, emphasis on rational and scientific thought.
assumption - Answer a basic principal that is believed to be true without proof or verification
determinism - Answer positivists belief that phenomena are not haphazard but have
antecedent causes.
post-positivist paradigm - Answer a remaining belief in reality and the desire to understand it,
seeing the impossibility of total objectivity.
probabilistic - Answer learning the true state of a phenomenon [probably]
Chapters 1-6 Test Bank All Chapters
Included.
evidence-based practice - Answer decisions based on the best available evidence and clinical
judgement, and patient preferences, in making patient care decisions, and best evidence from
collegial research by nurses and other professionals.
research - Answer a systematic inquiry that uses disciplined methods to answer questions or
solve problems.
nursing research - Answer systematic inquiry designed to generate trustworthy evidence
about important issues to the nursing profession, ie nursing practice, education, admin, and
informatics.
clinical nursing research - Answer research to guide nursing practice and the quality of life for
nursing clients.
journal club - Answer involves meetings to discuss research articles
translational research - Answer research on how findings from studies can best be translated
into practice.
replication - Answer the repeated efforts of studies with different clients, different settings,
and at different times to ensure that the findings are robust.
systematic reviews - Answer a cornerstone of EBP and take on increasing importance in all
health disciplines.
innovation - Answer creative and innovative solutions to recurrent practice problems.
Expanded local research in health care settings - Answer small studies designed to solve local
problems.
, expanded dissertation of research findings - Answer the internet and other electronic
communications have an impact on disseminating research information, which in turn helps to
promote EBP.
Increased focus on cultural issues and health disparities - Answer the issue of health
disparities has emerged as a central concern in nursing and other health disciplines, thus raising
consciousness about the cultural sensitivity of health interventions and the cultural competence
of health care workers.
clinical significance and patient input - Answer research findings increasingly must meet the
test of being clinically significant and patients have taken center stage in efforts to define clinical
significance.
evidence hierarchy - Answer acknowledgement that certain types of evidence are better than
others.
inductive reasoning - Answer involves developing generalizations from specific observations.
deductive reasoning - Answer involves developing specific predictions from general principles.
paradigm - Answer worldview, a general perspective on the complexities of the world.
positivism - Answer logical positivism guided by philosophers such as Mill, Newton and Locke,
also referred to as modernism, in the humanities, emphasis on rational and scientific thought.
assumption - Answer a basic principal that is believed to be true without proof or verification
determinism - Answer positivists belief that phenomena are not haphazard but have
antecedent causes.
post-positivist paradigm - Answer a remaining belief in reality and the desire to understand it,
seeing the impossibility of total objectivity.
probabilistic - Answer learning the true state of a phenomenon [probably]
