NUR 401 Week 1: Evidence-Based Nursing
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5 evidence based practices - ✔✔1. Treatment/intervention
2. Assessment/diagnosis
3. Prognosis
4. Harm and etiology
5. Meaning and process
Asking clinical questions with PICOT - ✔✔P - population/patient
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome
T - time frame (when applicable)
Sources of evidence for EBP - ✔✔- Pre-appraised clinical practice guidelines
- Pre-appraised systematic reviews
- Primary studies
Types of systematic reviews - ✔✔1. Review paper
2. Literature review in manuscript
3. Peer review
, Literature review in a manuscript - ✔✔Establish a rationale for the paper, discuss the
significance and context of the problem and ask a research question
Peer review - ✔✔Evaluation of article by other scientists in the field
What is evidence - ✔✔Findings from multiple studies that are synthesized to develop
guidelines, standards, and protocols; findings that explain the effectiveness of an
intervention
What is a systematic review - ✔✔A narrowly focused synthesis of research findings
with similar methodologies that has very clear methods and can be repeated; the
cornerstone of EBP
What are clinical guidelines - ✔✔They make recommendations for clinical practice
and their methods are not focused - may not be replicable
How to select articles - ✔✔PRISMA flowchart - identification, screening, eligibility,
included
"Discussion" portion of article - ✔✔Discusses limitations and strengths of the study
and recommends clinical practice, future research, and policy
Meta-analysis - ✔✔Systematic review and analysis of quantitative studies;
statistically pools results from previous studies into single quantitative analysis; has
greater objectivity and power
Meta-synthesis - ✔✔Systematic review and analysis of qualitative studies; allows for
application of scientific criteria; allows researchers to identify a specific research
question and then search for relevant qualitative evidence
Practice-Questions & ANSWERS 100% RATED
CORRECT- SURE PASS!! | Newest 2025
5 evidence based practices - ✔✔1. Treatment/intervention
2. Assessment/diagnosis
3. Prognosis
4. Harm and etiology
5. Meaning and process
Asking clinical questions with PICOT - ✔✔P - population/patient
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome
T - time frame (when applicable)
Sources of evidence for EBP - ✔✔- Pre-appraised clinical practice guidelines
- Pre-appraised systematic reviews
- Primary studies
Types of systematic reviews - ✔✔1. Review paper
2. Literature review in manuscript
3. Peer review
, Literature review in a manuscript - ✔✔Establish a rationale for the paper, discuss the
significance and context of the problem and ask a research question
Peer review - ✔✔Evaluation of article by other scientists in the field
What is evidence - ✔✔Findings from multiple studies that are synthesized to develop
guidelines, standards, and protocols; findings that explain the effectiveness of an
intervention
What is a systematic review - ✔✔A narrowly focused synthesis of research findings
with similar methodologies that has very clear methods and can be repeated; the
cornerstone of EBP
What are clinical guidelines - ✔✔They make recommendations for clinical practice
and their methods are not focused - may not be replicable
How to select articles - ✔✔PRISMA flowchart - identification, screening, eligibility,
included
"Discussion" portion of article - ✔✔Discusses limitations and strengths of the study
and recommends clinical practice, future research, and policy
Meta-analysis - ✔✔Systematic review and analysis of quantitative studies;
statistically pools results from previous studies into single quantitative analysis; has
greater objectivity and power
Meta-synthesis - ✔✔Systematic review and analysis of qualitative studies; allows for
application of scientific criteria; allows researchers to identify a specific research
question and then search for relevant qualitative evidence
