QUIZ 1 Nursing 310 Study Guide
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What are the steps/appropriate questions to ask when appraising
research evidence?
Ans: What is the quality of the evidence?
What is the magnitude of effects?
How precise are estimates of effects?
Is there evidence of side effects?
What are the costs?
Is there relevance to my clinical situation?
Ethnography
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Ans: the study of the patterns and life ways of a defined cultural group in
a holistic fashion
-qualitative research
Ex. Study to explore how nursing home staff members managed
unpleasant resident behaviors in two public nursing homes in Norway.
Grounded theory
Ans: Seeks to understand and describe social psychological processes.
-focus is on a developing social experience.
Paradigm
Ans: A worldview; a general perspective on the world's complexities
Positivist paradigm