WGU UBC2 - Evidence-Based Practice
Exam Study Guide Solutions
Concept - ANSWER✔✔-An abstract idea that is used to describe or identify phenomena.
Primary Data - ANSWER✔✔-Data collected directly from the subject for the purpose of the research
study - Surveys, questionnaires, observations, physiologic studies.
Falsification - ANSWER✔✔-A type of research misconduct where the researcher manipulates the results,
changes procedures, omits data, or accepts subjects into the study who do not meet inclusion criteria.
Nazi Experiments - ANSWER✔✔-Studies on prisoners in Nazi concentration camps aimed at determining
the limits of human endurance and learning ways to treat medical problems faced by German armed
forces.
Tuskegee - ANSWER✔✔-Study initiated to examine the natural course of untreated syphilis.
Nuremberg Code - ANSWER✔✔-A section of a written verdict that outlined what constitutes acceptable
medical research, forming the basis of codes of ethical conduct internationally.
Discussion Section - ANSWER✔✔-This portion of the research article provides an interpretation of the
results and discusses how the findings extend the body of knowledge.
Inductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-A process of reasoning from specific observations to broader
generalizations and theories.
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Literature Review - ANSWER✔✔-Provides an in-depth analysis of recently published research findings in
a specific area of interest. Review informs the research question and guides development of the research
plan.
Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital - ANSWER✔✔-Involved injection of foreign, live cancer cells into
hospitalized patients with chronic diseases to determine whether a body's inability to reject CA cells was
related to chronic diseases or not.
Therapeutic research - ANSWER✔✔-Research studies in which the subject can be expected to receive a
potentially beneficial treatment.
Practice Guidelines - ANSWER✔✔-Research-based recommendations for practices that are graded as
mandatory, optional or supplemental and that may be stated as standards of practice, procedures, or
decision algorithms.
Bias - ANSWER✔✔-The distortion of true findings by factors other than those being studied.
Nursing Research - ANSWER✔✔-A systematic process of inquiry that uses rigorous guidelines to produce
unbiased, trustworthy answers to questions about nursing practice.
Empirical literature - ANSWER✔✔-This type of literature includes published works that demonstrate how
theories apply to individual behavior or observed events., A synonym for data-based literature; research
approaches that test hypotheses.
Non-therapeutic research - ANSWER✔✔-Research carried out for the purpose of generating knowledge.
It is not expected to benefit the research subject, but may lead to improved treatment in the future.
Predictive research - ANSWER✔✔-Research designed to search for variables measured at one point in
time that may forecast an outcome that is measured at a different point in time.
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Diffusion of Innovations - ANSWER✔✔-This model includes four major concepts: Innovation,
communication, time and social system.
Ethics - ANSWER✔✔-Type of philosophy that studies right and wrong.
Themes - ANSWER✔✔-Implicit, recurring and unifying ideas derived from the raw data in qualitative
research.
Willowbrook - ANSWER✔✔-A series of studies conducted to observe the natural course of infectious
hepatitis by deliberately infecting children admitted to institute for mentally disabled children.
Measurement - ANSWER✔✔-Determination of the quantity of a characteristic that is present; involves
assigning of numbers or some other classification.
Methods section - ANSWER✔✔-This portion of the research article includes a discussion about study
design, sample and data collection.
Deductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-A process of reasoning from a general theory to a specific and well-
articulated question.
Research Utilization - ANSWER✔✔-Trying to apply research findings to practice, changing practice from
the results of a single research study.
Abstract - ANSWER✔✔-A summary of the most important aspects of the research that is used to apply
for presentation; also appears in the beginning of a publication and as a summary in searchable
databases.
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