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NU 503 Exam #1-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ Latest2024/2025
Priority for future nursing research - ✔✔- Promotion of excellence in nursing science
- Sharpening research skills and using those skills to address emerging issues
Scientific Method - ✔✔Orderly, disciplined procedures used to acquire information
Quantitative use 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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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) - ✔✔Quant - "subjects"
, Qual - "informants"
Both can be "study participants"
Definition of "concept" (operational) - ✔✔How a variable will be defined and measured
Definition of 'cause and effect' or casual relationship - ✔✔INDEPENDENT variable affects
DEPENDENT variable
*In a functional (associative) relationship, variables are related in NONCAUSAL way*
Experimental research researchers ... - ✔✔... actively intervene
Grounded Theory - ✔✔Seeks to describe and understand key social psychological processes
that occur in a social setting
Phenomenology - ✔✔Lived experiences of humans
An approach to learning what the life experiences of people are like and what they mean
Ethnography - ✔✔Provides framework for studying the meanings and life ways of a culture
in a holistic fashion
Conceptual phase of research
Definition of "conceptual" - ✔✔Developing a framework and conceptual definitions
Descries the abstract or theoretical meaning of a concept being studied
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