NS 115 CONCEPTS EXAM 1 CLARKSON COLLEGE 2019 STUDY GUIDE | FUNDAMENTAL
NURSING CONCEPTS PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Evidence- Based Practice - ANS ✔✔A testimony of facets tending to prove or disprove a
conclusion through health policy, healthcare economics, safety, technology and informatics.
1. Ask a PICOT question
2. Collect the best & relevant evidence
3. Critically appraise the evidence you gather
4. Integrate all evidence w/ ones clinical expertise and make a change or decision.
5. Apply the evidence found
6. Sharethe outcomes with others
Quanitative research - ANS ✔✔Tells us answers in a #'s (measureable); statistical analysis,
descritive; correlation; experimental; Quasi- experimental (cause & effect).
Quaitative research - ANS ✔✔Not #'s data, but from interviews or people's own words,
phenomenological; grounded theory; ethnographic; exploratory; historical.
Level of Evidence - ANS ✔✔Level 1: Systematic review (strongest evidence)
Level 2: Randomized control trial
Level 3: Quasi- experiment
Level 4: Case control cohort study
Level 5: Qualitative studies
Level 6: Expert opinion (weaker evidence)
Level 1 evidence reseach: systematic review (strongest evidence) - ANS ✔✔Referred to as
synthesis of evidence. It collects the available evidence on a topic in the form of randomized
controlled trials that are summarized using systematic methodology. Rather than conducting
, one very large study, the results of many studies can be evaluated and a conclusion can be
drawn about the effectiveness of a particular treatment because creation of this very labor-
intensive exhaustive searches of the literature and the comple methodology used to evaluate
each study included in the review- there are only a few of these types of publications available.
Level 2 evidence research: Randomized control trial - ANS ✔✔Evidence from one randomized
study. Participants are randomly assigned to an experimental or control group.
Level 3 evidence research: Quasi-experimental - ANS ✔✔Collecting evidence but not randomy
assigning anything
Level 4 evidence research: Casecontrol cohor study - ANS ✔✔Evidence from case controlled
experiments
Level 5 evidence research: Qualitative studies - ANS ✔✔Evidence from systematic reviews of
descriptive and qualitative studies.
Level 6 evidence research: Expert opinion - ANS ✔✔Evidence from the opinion of authorities
and/or reports of expert committees.
Steps of the resea - ANS ✔✔1. Identify the problem
2. Study design
3. Conducting the study
4. Data analysis
5. Recommend durther research
Informatics - ANS ✔✔an integration of nursing science, computer science, and information
science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice. Anytime we use technology to help improve patient care.
NURSING CONCEPTS PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Evidence- Based Practice - ANS ✔✔A testimony of facets tending to prove or disprove a
conclusion through health policy, healthcare economics, safety, technology and informatics.
1. Ask a PICOT question
2. Collect the best & relevant evidence
3. Critically appraise the evidence you gather
4. Integrate all evidence w/ ones clinical expertise and make a change or decision.
5. Apply the evidence found
6. Sharethe outcomes with others
Quanitative research - ANS ✔✔Tells us answers in a #'s (measureable); statistical analysis,
descritive; correlation; experimental; Quasi- experimental (cause & effect).
Quaitative research - ANS ✔✔Not #'s data, but from interviews or people's own words,
phenomenological; grounded theory; ethnographic; exploratory; historical.
Level of Evidence - ANS ✔✔Level 1: Systematic review (strongest evidence)
Level 2: Randomized control trial
Level 3: Quasi- experiment
Level 4: Case control cohort study
Level 5: Qualitative studies
Level 6: Expert opinion (weaker evidence)
Level 1 evidence reseach: systematic review (strongest evidence) - ANS ✔✔Referred to as
synthesis of evidence. It collects the available evidence on a topic in the form of randomized
controlled trials that are summarized using systematic methodology. Rather than conducting
, one very large study, the results of many studies can be evaluated and a conclusion can be
drawn about the effectiveness of a particular treatment because creation of this very labor-
intensive exhaustive searches of the literature and the comple methodology used to evaluate
each study included in the review- there are only a few of these types of publications available.
Level 2 evidence research: Randomized control trial - ANS ✔✔Evidence from one randomized
study. Participants are randomly assigned to an experimental or control group.
Level 3 evidence research: Quasi-experimental - ANS ✔✔Collecting evidence but not randomy
assigning anything
Level 4 evidence research: Casecontrol cohor study - ANS ✔✔Evidence from case controlled
experiments
Level 5 evidence research: Qualitative studies - ANS ✔✔Evidence from systematic reviews of
descriptive and qualitative studies.
Level 6 evidence research: Expert opinion - ANS ✔✔Evidence from the opinion of authorities
and/or reports of expert committees.
Steps of the resea - ANS ✔✔1. Identify the problem
2. Study design
3. Conducting the study
4. Data analysis
5. Recommend durther research
Informatics - ANS ✔✔an integration of nursing science, computer science, and information
science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice. Anytime we use technology to help improve patient care.
