Nursing Research Quantitative Terms & Certified
Definitions / 2025/2026
Research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..systematic, rigorous, logical investigation with the aim of
answering questions about nursing phenomena.
Phenomena - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..situations, experiences, topics, occurrences,
circumstances, or facts perceptible by the senses (sometimes
Ontology - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Beliefs about a nature of reality
Qualitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explores personal meanings and context of an
experience, culture, human patterns, and processes
- data usually consists of words or text
Qualitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explores personal meanings and context of an
experience, culture, human patterns, and processes
- data usually consists of words or text
Quantitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explore research questions or test hypothesis
that describe phenomena, test relationships, assess differences
- try to explain cause-and-effect interactions among the variables being studied
- data usually consists of numbers and statistical formulas
Concept - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- is an image or symbolic representation of an abstract idea
(eg- pain)
- concepts are the major components of theory and convey the abstract ideas within a
theory
Theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- set of interrelated concepts that serve the purpose of
explaining and predicting phenomena
- blueprint or a written or diagrammatic depiction of both the concepts that compose a
theory and how they are related
Hypothesis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- a micro-theory
- a "specific" statement of relationship is believed to exist
- prediction made 'a priori' in advance about what one expects will happen
Quantitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explore research questions or test hypothesis
that describe phenomena, test relationships, assess differences
- try to explain cause-and-effect interactions among the variables being studied
- data usually consists of numbers and statistical formulas
, Concept - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- is an image or symbolic representation of an abstract idea
(eg- pain)
- concepts are the major components of theory and convey the abstract ideas within a
theory
Theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- set of interrelated concepts that serve the purpose of
explaining and predicting phenomena
- blueprint or a written or diagrammatic depiction of both the concepts that compose a
theory and how they are related
Hypothesis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- a micro-theory
- a "specific" statement of relationship is believed to exist
- prediction made 'a priori' in advance about what one expects will happen
Epistemology - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Beliefs about 'what is truth
- Knowledge development/learning
- Access to knowledge
Researcher values - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- the researchers beliefs about reality, epistemology
and past experiences that may influence the research process
Post- positivist - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- 1 reality, 1 truth
- things are real even if they are invisible
- learn to know about reality through our senses
-"imperfect" view of reality limited by our senses
Critical theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-" virtual reality created by people/groups in power
throughout history
- shaped by social, economic, ethnic, political, cultural and gender values
- crystallizes overtime, becomes accepted as reality
Constructivism - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- multiple realities
- people constructed their own reality based on their experience
- ruth is relative to the person and their experience
What is PICOT? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Population
- Intervention
-Comparison
-Outcome
-Time
What is PS? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Population
-Situation
Definitions / 2025/2026
Research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..systematic, rigorous, logical investigation with the aim of
answering questions about nursing phenomena.
Phenomena - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..situations, experiences, topics, occurrences,
circumstances, or facts perceptible by the senses (sometimes
Ontology - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Beliefs about a nature of reality
Qualitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explores personal meanings and context of an
experience, culture, human patterns, and processes
- data usually consists of words or text
Qualitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explores personal meanings and context of an
experience, culture, human patterns, and processes
- data usually consists of words or text
Quantitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explore research questions or test hypothesis
that describe phenomena, test relationships, assess differences
- try to explain cause-and-effect interactions among the variables being studied
- data usually consists of numbers and statistical formulas
Concept - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- is an image or symbolic representation of an abstract idea
(eg- pain)
- concepts are the major components of theory and convey the abstract ideas within a
theory
Theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- set of interrelated concepts that serve the purpose of
explaining and predicting phenomena
- blueprint or a written or diagrammatic depiction of both the concepts that compose a
theory and how they are related
Hypothesis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- a micro-theory
- a "specific" statement of relationship is believed to exist
- prediction made 'a priori' in advance about what one expects will happen
Quantitative research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- explore research questions or test hypothesis
that describe phenomena, test relationships, assess differences
- try to explain cause-and-effect interactions among the variables being studied
- data usually consists of numbers and statistical formulas
, Concept - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- is an image or symbolic representation of an abstract idea
(eg- pain)
- concepts are the major components of theory and convey the abstract ideas within a
theory
Theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- set of interrelated concepts that serve the purpose of
explaining and predicting phenomena
- blueprint or a written or diagrammatic depiction of both the concepts that compose a
theory and how they are related
Hypothesis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- a micro-theory
- a "specific" statement of relationship is believed to exist
- prediction made 'a priori' in advance about what one expects will happen
Epistemology - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Beliefs about 'what is truth
- Knowledge development/learning
- Access to knowledge
Researcher values - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- the researchers beliefs about reality, epistemology
and past experiences that may influence the research process
Post- positivist - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- 1 reality, 1 truth
- things are real even if they are invisible
- learn to know about reality through our senses
-"imperfect" view of reality limited by our senses
Critical theory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-" virtual reality created by people/groups in power
throughout history
- shaped by social, economic, ethnic, political, cultural and gender values
- crystallizes overtime, becomes accepted as reality
Constructivism - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- multiple realities
- people constructed their own reality based on their experience
- ruth is relative to the person and their experience
What is PICOT? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Population
- Intervention
-Comparison
-Outcome
-Time
What is PS? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Population
-Situation
