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What is a primary resource? -ANSWER the actual research reports written by
researchers who conducted the study
Identify some vulnerable populations -ANSWER children, unconscious patients
Name one of the most useful electronic data bases. -ANSWER CIHNAL
What is the IRB and its purpose? -ANSWER In the US, a group of people affiliated with
an institution who convene to review proposed and ongoing with respect to ethical
considerations.
*researches must submit plans to the IRB
*they can approve the proposed plans, require modifications, or disapprove them
What are null, directional, non-directional hypotheses? Give an example of each. -
ANSWER Null: used as the hypothesis to be rejected or accepted.
nondirectional: does not stipulate the expected direction of the relationship between
variables.
directional: hypothesis that can make a specific prediction about the relationship
between variables
What are the 3 requirements of a true experiment? -ANSWER Randomization,
Manipulation, Control
What are types of qualitative designs -ANSWER Ethnography
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
What are some current priorities for clinical nursing research? -ANSWER Evidenced
Based Practice
What types of studies would be investigated by qualitative designs? quantitative
designs? -ANSWER ...
What is a construct? Give an example -ANSWER an abstraction on concept that is
deliberately invented by researchers for a scientific purpose. *health locus of control
, Describe a causal relationship between two variables. How would it be stated? -
ANSWER A cause-and-effect relationship.
example: smoking causes lung cancer
What are some ways to measure research variables i.e., instruments, tools, measures -
ANSWER ...
What is a hypothesis? -ANSWER A statement of predicted relationships between
variables or predicted outcomes.
What is a research design? -ANSWER the overall plan for addressing a research
question, including strategies for enhancing the study's integrity.
What is a population? -ANSWER The entire set of individuals or objects having some
common characteristics.
*example: all RN's in NY. All fire hydrants in Pittsburgh.
What are the people called in quantitative studies? Qualitative studies? -ANSWER
Qualitative studies: study participant,.
Quantitative studies: subjects.
What does statistically significant mean? -ANSWER A term indicating that the results
from an analysis of a sample data are unlikely to have been caused by chance alone.
Who is best served by development of a scientific base for nursing practice? -ANSWER
patients
What is the NINR? Where is it? What is its mission? What are some categories for
research opportunities / funding from the NINR? -ANSWER National Institute of Nursing
Research.
-Bethesda , MD
-...
What is a quantitative paradigm? Qualitative paradigm? -ANSWER Quant: positivist
Qual: naturalist
control -ANSWER the process of holding constant confounding influences on the
dependent variable, or outcome,under study
random sampling -ANSWER The key technique employed by sophisticated survey
researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal
probability of being selected for the sample.
trustworthiness -ANSWER the degree of confidence QUALITATIVE researchers have in
their data and analyses, assessed using the criteria of credibility, transferability,
dependability, confirmability, and authenticity