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Nursing Research
Quantitative Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Information acquired in a variety of ways that is expected to be an accurate reflection of reality. | knowledge |
| Scientific process that vailidates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice | nursing research |
| A person with expertise and power who is able to influence the opinions of others. | authority |
| Integrative set of defined concepts and relational statements that present a way of explaining some segment of the empirical world and can be used to describe, explain, predict or control that segment of the world. | theory |
| Insight or understanding of a situation or event as a whole that usually cannot be logically explained. | intuition |
| Diligent, systematic inquiry to validate and refine existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. | research |
| A coherent body of knowledge composed of research findings, tested theories, principles and laws for a specific discipline. | science |
| Thinking oriented toward and limited by tangible things or events that are observed and experienced in reality. | concrete thinking |
| The world experienced through our senses; the concrete portion of our existence; often called reality. | empirical world |
| Thinking oriented toward the development of an idea without application to, or association with, a particular instance. | abstract thinking |
| The conscientious integration of best research evidence with clinical expertiese and patient values and needs in the delivery of quality, cost-effective health care. | evidence-based practice |
| The process of turning your attention inward toward your own thoughts to increase your awareness of the flow and interplay of feelings and ideas that occur. | introspection |
| Belief system that provides a broard, global explanation of the world. | philosophy |
| Extremely strong empirical knowledge generated from the systhesis of quality study findings that provides a basis for the best management of a practice problem. | best practice evidence |
| Reasoning from the specific to the general | inductive reasoning |
| Reasoning that involves the indentification and discrimination among many alternatives and viewpoints and that focuses on the process of debating alternatives. | operational reasoning. |
| Reasoning from the general to the specific. | deductive reasoning |
| Reasoning that involves identifying a problem and the factors influencing the problem, selecting solutions to the problem, and resolving the problem. | problematic reasoning |
| Reasoning that is used to break the whole into parts that can be carefully examined, as can the relationships among the parts. | logistic reasoning |
| Reasoning from a holistic perspective that involves examining factors that are opposites and making sense of them by merging them into a single unit or idea. | dialectic reasoning |
| A type of quantitative research that provides an accurate portrayal or account of characteristics of a particular individual, situation, or group; these studies are often conducted when little is known about a phenomenon. | Descriptive research |
| Research that is considered the most objective, systematic and controlled of the different types of quantitative research. | experimental research |
| A type of qualitative research that involves describing an experience as a person lives it. | phenomenological research |
| A formal, objective, systematic research process to describe, test relationships, or examine cause- and - effect in interactions among variables. | quantitative research |
| Procedures that scientists have used, currently use, or may use in the future to pursue knowledge. | scientific method |
| A type of quantitative research that involves the systematic investigation of relationships among two or more variables. | correlational research |
| inductive research technique initally described by Glaser and Strauss that is useful in discovering what problems exist in a social scene and the processes people use to handle them. | grounded theory research |
| Systematic, subjective research methodology used to describe life experiences and give them meaning. | qualitative research |
| A type of quantitative research that involves examining cause and effect relationships but has a lower level of control than experimental research | quasi-experimental research |
| Research that involves a narrative description or analysis of events that occurred in the remote or recent past. | historical research |
| a type of qualitative research that involves the use of intellectual analysis to clarify meanings, make values manifest, indentify ethics, and study the nature of knowledge | philosophical inquiry |
| A type of research that was developed within the discipline of anthropology for investigating cultures through an in-depth study of the members of the culture. | ethnographic research |
| A theory that provides the basis for research that focuses on understanding how people communicate and how they develop symbolic meanings in society. | critical social theory |
| A type of research conducted to examine the end result of care or to measure the change in health status of a patient to determine if the care is cost-effective and of high quality. | outcomes research |
| Important new research methodology for examining the effectiveness of nursing interventions in achieving the desired outcomes in natural settings. | intervention research |
| A structured, comprehensive systhesis of quantitative studies in a particular heatlh care area to determine the best research evidence available for expert clinicians to use to promote evidence-based practice. | systematic review |
| The syntheis or summing of the findings across qualitative research reports to determine the current knowledge in an area. | metasummary |
| A type of study that statistically pools the reults from previous studies into a single quantitative analysis that provides one of the highest levels of evidence for an intervention's efficacy. | meta-analysis |
| A research synthesis process that includes the indentification, analysis, and synthesis of research findings from independent quantitative and qualitative studies to determine the current knowledge (what is known and not known) in a particular area. | integrative review |
| A complex synthesis of qualitative research that provides a fully integrated, novel description or explanation of a target event or experience versus a summary view. | metasynthesis |
| Considered first nurse researcher | Florence Nightingale |
| First journal published in 1952 | Nursing Research |
| ANA established by Council of Nurse Researchers | 1972 |
| Sigma Theta Tau sponsor many national conferences to communicate nursing studies since 1970 in this area | nursing research |
| Promoted evidence based practice | Archie Cochrane |
| Other research journals | Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice; Applied Nursing Research |
| NINR mission in 2007 | conducting quality studies, systhesizing study findings into best research evidence. |
| New type of research initiated in 1980s and 1990s to determine the quality endpoints or results of care was called | outcomes research |
| This requires the the conduct and synthesis of numerous high-quality studies to determine the current best research evidence available for implementation in practice | best evidence practice |
| AHRQ - 1999 - identified two goals, they are: | improve the quality and safety of patient carepromote the use of best research evidence |
| Healthy People, published in 2000, had two major foci, they are: | health promotionillness prevention interventions |
| What is the second best type of research evidence that might be used to promote evidence-based practice in nursing? | Meta-analysis |
| Statistical synthesis of study results | meta-analysis |
| Summary of qualitative studies to determine what is known about the concept of health | metasummary |
| Narrative integration of quantitative studies, qualitative studies and theoretical literature to determine what is currently known about the adaptation to chronic pain | Integrative review |
| Synthesis of qualitative studies to provide a new perspective or theory about caring in nursing. | metasynthesis |
| Synthesis of randomized controlled trials to determine the best pharmacological agent to use in the management of hypertension in the elderly? | systematic review |
| Synthesis of a variety of independent quantitative and qualitative studies to determine the differences between associate and baccalaureate prepared RNs | integrative review |
| Summary of qualitative studies to provide a basis for metasynthesis | metasummary |
| Statistical analysis of the results of quantitative studies to determine the most effective pain assessment scale to use to assess pain in school age children | meta-analysis |
| a synthesis process that includes both narrative and statistical analysis of studies | systematic review |
| synthesis of original qualitative studies and metasummaries | metasynthesis |
| Correlational research, is what type of method: | quantitative |
| Descriptive reseach is what type of method: | quantitative |
| Ethnographic research is what type of method: | qualitative |
| Experimental research is what type of method | quantitative |
| Critical social theory is what type of method | qualitative |
| Grounded theory is what type of method | qualitative |
| Historical research is what type of method | qualitative |
| phenomenological research is what type of method | qualitative |
| quasi-experimental research is what type of method | quantitative |
| philosophical inquiry is what type of method | qualitative |
| Uses research findings in practice with supervision | AAS |
| Develops and coordinates funded research programs | Postdoctorate |
| Critically appraises studies | BS |
| Develops nursing knowledge through research and theory development | DNS, PhD |
| Uses research findings to promote evidence-based practice | BS |
| Collaborates in conducting research projects | MS |
| Conducts funded independent research projects | DNS, PhD, Postdoctorate |
| Directly linked to nursing research | philosophy, theory, nursing practice, science, abstract thought process, knowledge, ways of knowing. |
| An organized written presentation of what scholars have published on a topic | literature review |
| The first study that prompted the initiation of a field of research | seminal study |
| A major project that generates knowledge that influences a discipline and sometimes society in general and marks an important stage of development in a field of research | landmark study |
| Includes concept analyses, maps, theories, and conceptual frameworks that support a selected research problem and purpose | theoretical literature |
| Literature published over time or in multiple volumes; they do not necessarily have a predictable publication date | serial |
| subsets of serials with predictable publication dates, such as journals, which are published over time and are numbered sequentially for the years published | periodicals |
| Includes relevan studies published in journals, in books, and online, as well as unpublished studies such as master's theses and doctoral dissertations. | empirical literature |
| Research project completed by a master's student as part of the requirements for a master's degree | thesis |
| an extensive, usually original, research project that is completed as the final requirement for a doctoral degree | dissertation |
| knowledge derived from research | empirical knowledge |
| A source that is written by the person who originated or is responsible for generating the ideas published. | primary source |
| A source that summarizes or quotes content from primary sources | secondary source |
| Database that consists of citations relevant to a specific discipline or amy be a broad collection of citations from a variety of disciplines | bibliographic database |
| Alternative terms that authors might use to search for concepts or variables | synonym |
| The combination of two or more concepts or synonyms in one search | complex search |
| A process of extracting and defining concepts from theories in other disciplines | Concept deviation |
| If A occurs, then B will occur, but there may be no indication that if B occurs, A will occur. | asymmetical relationship |
| A set of highly abstract, related constructs that broadly explains phenomena of interest, expresses assumptions, and reflects a philosophical stance. | conceptual model |
| A strategy for expressing a framework of a study that diagrammatically shows the interrelationship of the concepts and statements. | conceptual map |
| Oriented toward the development of an idea without application to or association with a particular instance; independent of time and space. | abstract thinking |
| A process of describing and naming a previously unrecognized concept. | concept synthesis |
| Provides a variable or concept with connotative meaning and is established through concept analysis, concept deviation or concept synthesis. | conceptual definition |
| Thinking that is oriented toward and limited by tangible things or events observed and experienced in reality. | concrete thinking |
| A strategy through which a set of attributes or characteristics essential to the connotative meaning or conceptual definition of a concept are indentified. | concept analysis |
| A term that abstractly describes and names an object or phenomenon. | concept |
| May be positive, negative or unknown. | direction of a proposition |
| Occurs only if a third variable or concept is present | contingent relationship |
| A program of research that is important for building a body of knowledge related to the phenomena explained by a particular conceptual model | Research tradition |
| Formal statement of the expected relationships between two or more variables in a specified population. | hypothesis |
| Dictionary definition | denotative definition |
| Expresses the likelihood that something will happen in a given situation and addresses relative rather than absolute causality | probability statement |
| A relationship in which both variables and concepts occur simultaneously | concurrent relationship |
| The degree to which the phenomenon is present in the population or to which the null hypothesis is false. | effect size |
| Variables that bring about the effects of the intervention after it has occurred and thus influence theoutcomes of the study. | mediator variable |
| The abstract, logical structure of meaning that guides development of the study and enables the researcher to link the findings to nursing's body of knowledge | framework |
| The relationship between two variables or concepts will remain consistent regardless of the values of each of the variables or concepts. | linear relationship |
| Composed of a specific proposition and a hypothesis or research question. | hierarchical statement |
| Indicates that as one variable or concept changes, the other variable or concept changes in the opposite direction. | negative relationship |
| can affect the occurrence, strength, or direction of a relationship. | intervening variable |
| A highly abstract statement of the relationship between two or more concepts that is found in a conceptual model. | general proposition |
| Declares that a given concept exists or that a given relationship occurs. | existence statement |
| One variable or concept must occur for the second variable or concept to occur. | necessary relationship |
| The relationship between two variables varies depending on the relative values of the variables. | curvilinear relationship |
| Indicates that as one variable changes the second variable will also change in the same direction | positive relationship |
| Statements of what always occurs in a particular situation such as scientific law | deterministic relationship |
| Declares that a relationship of some kind exists beween two or more concepts | proposition |
| Concept at a very high level of abstrction that has general meaning | construct |
| An abstract statement that further clarifies the relationship beween two concepts | relational statement |
| The amount of variation explained by the relationship | strength of the relationship |
| Qualities, properties or characteristics of persons, things, or situations that change or vary and are manipulated, measured, or controlled in research. | variables |
| A relationship in which one concept occurs later than the other | Sequential relationship |
| A theory with valid and reliable methods of measuring each concept and relationship statments that have been tested repeatedly | scientific theory |
| A theory recognized with the discipline as useful for explaining important phenomena | substantive theory |
| A relationship in which a similar concept can be substituted for the first concept and the second concept will occur. | substitutable relationship |
| The opposite of construction; to take apart. | substruction |
| A deterministic relationship that describes what always happens in the absence of interfering conditions. | tendency statement |
| If A occurs, B will occur and if B occurs, A will occur | symmetrical relationship |
| States tht when the first variable or concept occurs, the second will occur regardless of the presence or absence of the other factors. | sufficient relationship |
| A statement found in theories that are at a moderate level of abstraction and provide the basis for the generation of hypotheses to guide a study. | specific proposition |
| Consists of an integrated set of defined concepts, existence statements, and relational statements tat present a view of a phenomenon and can be used to describe, explain, predict or control that phenomenon. | theory |
| A process in which the framework of a published study is separated into component parts to evaluate the logical consistency of the theoretical system and the interaction of the framework with the study methodology. | theoretical substruction |
| A theory that is newly proposed, has had minimal exposure to critical appraisal by the discipline and has had little testing. | tentative theory |
| We use __________ to organize what we know about phenomenon. | theories |
| Testing theory involves determining the ____of each relational statement in the theory. | validity |
| __________ ______ are not generally considered testable. | Concept models |
| A research framework is based on a ____ | Theory |
| The strength of a relationship is sometimes referred to as the _________ | effect size |
| Research findings are interpreted in terms of the study _______ | Framework |
| In a framework, all _______ should be defined. | Concepts |
| Concepts in conceptual models are referred to as _______ | constructs |
| A _______ is more specific than a concept and is defined so that is measurable in a study. | Variable |
| The _____ of a theory are tested through research. | Propositions |
| Statements at the lowest level of abstraction are referred to as _______ | hypotheses |
| The purpose of a conceptual map is to explain which concepts ________ to or paritally _______ an outcome | Contribute and cause |
| A conceptual mat includes all the major ____ in a theory or framework linked together by _____ expressing the _______ proposed between the concepts. | concepts, arrows, relationships |
| An organized program of research designed to build a body of knowledge related to a paricular conceptual model is referred to as a __________ ____________ | research tradition |
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