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Nursing Research
Chapter 1 - Understanding Nursing Research
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Research (Page 3) | To search again, or to examine carefully.the ultimate goal of research is the development of a research body of knowledge for a discipline or profession, such as nursing. |
| Integrative Review of Research (pg. 4) | Involves critiquing studies on a selected topic or pratice problem (such as safe administration of Intramuscular - IM injections; summarizing the finding and drawing conclusions about what is known and not known about the topic. |
| Evidence Based Practice (pg. 4) | Is the conscientious integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values and needs in the delivery of high-quality, cost effective health care. |
| Nursing Research (pg. 5) | A scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice. |
| Description (pg. 5) | Involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena and sometimes the relationship among these phenomena. |
| Explanation (pg. 6) | Clarifies the relationship among phenomena and identifies the reasons why certain event occur. |
| Prediction (pg. 6) | Estimation of the propability of a specific outcome in a given situation that can be achieved trough research. |
| Premise (pg. 17) | Proposition or statement of the proposed relationship between two or more concepts. |
| Authority (pg. 14) | Person with expertise and power who is able to influence the opinions and behavior of others. |
| Borrowing (pg. 14) | Appropriation and use of knowledge from other disciplines to guide nursing practice. |
| Case Study (pg. 9) | In-depth analysis and systematic description of one patient or a group of similiar patients to promote understanding of nursing interventions. |
| Control (pg. 6) | Writing of a prescription to produce the desired outcomes in practice. In research, the imposing of rules by the researcher to decrease the possibility of error and increase the probability that the study's findings are an accurate reflection of reality. |
| Critique (pg. 8) | Careful examination of all aspects of a study to judge its strengths, limitations, meaning and significance. |
| Deductive Reasoning (pg. 17) | Reasoning from the general to the specificor from a genral premise to a particular situation. |
| Inductive Reasoning (pg. 16) | Reasoning from the specific to the general, in which particular instances are observed and then combined into a larger whole or general statement. |
| Intuition (pg. 16) | Insight or understanding of a situationor an event as a whole that usually can not be logically explained. |
| Knowledge (pg. 13) | Information that is acquired in a variety of ways, is expected to be an accurate reflection of reality, and is incorporated and used to direct a person's actions. |
| Mentorship (pg. 16) | Intense form form of role modeling in which an expert nurse serves as a teacher, sponsor, guide, exemplar, and a counselor for a novice nurse. |
| Outcome Research (pg. 19) | Important scientific methodology that was developed to examine the end results of patient care. |
| Personal Experience (pg. 15) | Knowledge gained through participation in rather than observation of an event, situation, or circumstance. 1. Novice 2. advanced beginner 3. Competent 4.Proficient 5. Expert |
| Qualitative Research (pg. 18) | Systematic, subjective methodological approach used to describe life experiences and give them meaning. |
| Quantitative Research (pg. 17) | Formal, objective, systematic process used to describe variables, test relationships between them, and examine cause-and-effect interactions among variables. |
| Reasoning (pg. 16) | Processing and organizing ideas to reach conclusions; types of reasoning include problematic, operational, dialectic, and logistic. |
| Role Modeling (pg. 16) | Process of teaching less experienced professionals by demonstrating model behavior. |
| Traditions (pg. 14) | Truths or beliefs that are based on customs or past trends. |
| Trial and Error (pg. 15) | Approach with unknown outcomes used in an uncertain situation when other sources of knowledge are unavailable. |
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