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NU 503 EXAM 1 LATEST UPDATEDPriority for future nursing research - ANSWER - Promotion of excellence
in nursing science
- Sharpening research skills and using those skills to address emerging
issues
Scientific Method - ANSWER Orderly, disciplined procedures used to
acquire information
Quantitative use of DEDUCTIVE reasoning to generate predictions
Logistic progression through set of steps, NOT a holistic view of a
phenomenon
Constructivist researchers emphasize DYNAMIC, HOLISTIC &
INDIVIDUAL
Basic feature of EVP as clinical problem-solving strategy - ANSWER De-
emphasizes decisions based on custom, authority or ritual
what is the best research available? - let's integrate this into other
factors
5 Steps putting research into practice - ANSWER 1. Framing the
answerable clinical question
2. Searching for relevant EVP
3. Appraising & synthesizing the evidence
4. Integrating evidence with other factors
5. Assessing effectiveness
, Terms for 'people being studied' (quant vs. qual) - ANSWER Quant -
"subjects"
Qual - "informants"
Both can be "study participants"
Definition of "concept" (operational) - ANSWER How a variable will be
defined and measured
Definition of 'cause and effect' or casual relationship - ANSWER
INDEPENDENT variable affects DEPENDENT variable
*In a functional (associative) relationship, variables are related in
NONCAUSAL way*
Experimental research researchers ... - ANSWER ... actively intervene
Grounded Theory - ANSWER Seeks to describe and understand key
social psychological processes that occur in a social setting
Phenomenology - ANSWER Lived experiences of humans
An approach to learning what the life experiences of people are like and
what they mean
Ethnography - ANSWER Provides framework for studying the meanings
and life ways of a culture in a holistic fashion
Conceptual phase of research
Definition of "conceptual" - ANSWER Developing a framework and
conceptual definitions
Descries the abstract or theoretical meaning of a concept being studied
Hypothesis - ANSWER Statement of the researchers expectations or
predictions about relationships among study variables
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