NURSING RESEARCH UPDATED SCRIPT
2026 PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● What is the definition of "nursing research"? Answer: a scientific
process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new
knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice.
● How is knowledge acquired in nursing? Answer: tradition, authority,
borrowing from other disciplines, trial and error, personal experience,
role modeling, intuition, reasoning, and nursing research.
● What is quantitative research? Answer: a formal, objective, systematic
process in which numerical data are used to obtain information about the
world.
● What is qualitative research? Answer: a systematic, subjective
approach to research that is used to describe life experiences and
situations and give them meaning.
● What are the major categories of qualitative research? Answer:
phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, exploratory-
descriptive, and historical research
● What are the four major categories of quantitative research? Answer:
descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental
2026 PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● What is the definition of "nursing research"? Answer: a scientific
process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new
knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice.
● How is knowledge acquired in nursing? Answer: tradition, authority,
borrowing from other disciplines, trial and error, personal experience,
role modeling, intuition, reasoning, and nursing research.
● What is quantitative research? Answer: a formal, objective, systematic
process in which numerical data are used to obtain information about the
world.
● What is qualitative research? Answer: a systematic, subjective
approach to research that is used to describe life experiences and
situations and give them meaning.
● What are the major categories of qualitative research? Answer:
phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, exploratory-
descriptive, and historical research
● What are the four major categories of quantitative research? Answer:
descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental
