NU 503 Exam #1
Priority for future nursing research
- Promotion of excellence in nursing science
- Sharpening research skills and using those skills to address emerging issues
Scientific Method
Orderly, disciplined procedures used to acquire information
Quantitative use DEDUCTIVE reasoning to generate predictions
Logistic progression through set of steps, NOT a holistic view of a phenomenon
Constructivist researchers emphasize DYNAMIC, HOLISTIC & INDIVIDUAL
Basic feature of EVP as clinical problem-solving strategy
De-emphasizes decisions based on custom, authority or ritual
what is the best research available? - let's integrate this into other factors
5 Steps putting research into practice
1. Framing the answerable clinical question
2. Searching for relevant EVP
3. Appraising & synthesizing the evidence
4. Integrating evidence with other factors
5. Assessing effectiveness
Terms for 'people being studied' (quant vs. qual)
Quant - "subjects"
Qual - "informants"
Both can be "study participants"
Definition of "concept" (operational)
How a variable will be defined and measured
Definition of 'cause and effect' or casual relationship
INDEPENDENT variable affects DEPENDENT variable
In a functional (associative) relationship, variables are related in NONCAUSAL way
, Experimental research researchers ...
... actively intervene
Grounded Theory
Seeks to describe and understand key social psychological processes that occur in a social setting
Phenomenology
Lived experiences of humans
An approach to learning what the life experiences of people are like and what they mean
Ethnography
Provides framework for studying the meanings and life ways of a culture in a holistic fashion
Conceptual phase of research
Definition of "conceptual"
Developing a framework and conceptual definitions
Descries the abstract or theoretical meaning of a concept being studied
Hypothesis
Statement of the researchers expectations or predictions about relationships among study variables
What comprises a journal article?
Abstract (synopsis)
Introduction
Methods (strategies)
Results (findings)
Discussion (interpretation)
QUANTITATIVE (research & hypotheses)
Simple - express predicted relationship between one independent and one dependent variable
Complex - two or more variables
Directional - predict direction of relationship (non-directional predict existence of relationships, not
direction)
QUALITATIVE (research & hypotheses)
These are all INCORRECT statements:
Derived from theory, non-directional in wording
More abstract than purpose statements
Priority for future nursing research
- Promotion of excellence in nursing science
- Sharpening research skills and using those skills to address emerging issues
Scientific Method
Orderly, disciplined procedures used to acquire information
Quantitative use DEDUCTIVE reasoning to generate predictions
Logistic progression through set of steps, NOT a holistic view of a phenomenon
Constructivist researchers emphasize DYNAMIC, HOLISTIC & INDIVIDUAL
Basic feature of EVP as clinical problem-solving strategy
De-emphasizes decisions based on custom, authority or ritual
what is the best research available? - let's integrate this into other factors
5 Steps putting research into practice
1. Framing the answerable clinical question
2. Searching for relevant EVP
3. Appraising & synthesizing the evidence
4. Integrating evidence with other factors
5. Assessing effectiveness
Terms for 'people being studied' (quant vs. qual)
Quant - "subjects"
Qual - "informants"
Both can be "study participants"
Definition of "concept" (operational)
How a variable will be defined and measured
Definition of 'cause and effect' or casual relationship
INDEPENDENT variable affects DEPENDENT variable
In a functional (associative) relationship, variables are related in NONCAUSAL way
, Experimental research researchers ...
... actively intervene
Grounded Theory
Seeks to describe and understand key social psychological processes that occur in a social setting
Phenomenology
Lived experiences of humans
An approach to learning what the life experiences of people are like and what they mean
Ethnography
Provides framework for studying the meanings and life ways of a culture in a holistic fashion
Conceptual phase of research
Definition of "conceptual"
Developing a framework and conceptual definitions
Descries the abstract or theoretical meaning of a concept being studied
Hypothesis
Statement of the researchers expectations or predictions about relationships among study variables
What comprises a journal article?
Abstract (synopsis)
Introduction
Methods (strategies)
Results (findings)
Discussion (interpretation)
QUANTITATIVE (research & hypotheses)
Simple - express predicted relationship between one independent and one dependent variable
Complex - two or more variables
Directional - predict direction of relationship (non-directional predict existence of relationships, not
direction)
QUALITATIVE (research & hypotheses)
These are all INCORRECT statements:
Derived from theory, non-directional in wording
More abstract than purpose statements
