NSG:350 Test 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

nursing research correct answer: A scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice. -Direct nursing practice- patient care -Indirectly influencing- education, vaccines phenomenon correct answer: A fact or event which can be observed and/or documented empirical data correct answer: based on factual statements and statistics, the information that comes from the research basic research correct answer: a type of research approach that is aimed at gaining a better understanding of a subject, phenomenon or basic law of nature applied research correct answer: to scientific study and research that seeks to solve practical or specific problems *independent variable correct answer: -changes the dependent variable *dependent variable correct answer: The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable. *conceptional definition correct answer: -how other researchers/research defines something -not the dictionary definition -Abstract meaning of a variable that usually is based on theory *operational definition correct answer: -what the researcher uses to measure the variables -assigns meaning to a variable by specifying the activities or "operations" necessary to measure it goal of research correct answer: to develop an empirical body of knowledge for a discipline - essential for evidence-based practice Evidence-Based Practice correct answer: defined as a process of using confirmed evidence (research and quality improvement), decision making, and nursing expertise to guide the delivery of holistic patient care by nurses. Why use Evidence-Based Practice correct answer: •Provide high-quality, cost-effective health care •Making a change in practice •Translating the evidence and applying it to knowledge for development of guidelines, standards, protocols, or policies to direct nursing interventions and practice •Evaluation of change for patient, provider, and health care system **can't build EBP without knowing your pt. population *Quantitative Research Methods correct answer: •Descriptive research •Correlational research •Quasi-experimental research •Experimental research *Descriptive research correct answer: describe, explore, don't have a lot of information just trying to describe it. Not much control over the environment. *Correlational research correct answer: -research that seeks to identify whether an association or relationship between two factors exists "what is the relationship b/w this and that" *quasi-experimental research correct answer: -Cause and effect. -Control over the environment but less than experimental *Experimental research correct answer: cause and effect Randomized controlled trial Most controlled ?Quantitative Research Characteristics correct answer: Philosophical origin: logical positivism Focus: concise, objective, reductionistic Reasoning: logistic, deductive Basis of knowing: cause-and-effect relationships Theoretical focus: tests theory ?Qualitative Research Methods correct answer: •Phenomenological research •Ground theory research •Ethnographic research •Historical research