NURSING RESEARCH 4325 CHAPTER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE
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Research - Answers to search again and to examine carefully as in a diligent and systematic inquiry
or study that validates and refines existing knowledge and develops a new empirical body of
knowledge for a discipline or profession.
Nursing research - Answers is a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and
generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing.
Goal of nursing - Answers an evidence based practice that promotes quality, safe, and cost
effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare providers, and the healthcare system.
Evidence-based practice - Answers evolves from the integration of the best research evidence with
clinical expertise and patients' needs and values.
best research evidence - Answers empirical knowledge generated fro the synthesis of quality study
findings to address a practice problem.
clinical expertise - Answers knowledge and skills of the healthcare professional who is providing
care
Components of research evidence - Answers description, explanation, prediction, and control of
phenomena
Description - Answers involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena
such as incidence and spread, cluster of symptoms, description of individual responses, description
of health promotion and illness prevention, and determination of incidence of disease locally.
explanation - Answers clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies possible reasons
why certain events occur such as determination of assessment data, link to diagnosis, link of
causative risk factors or causes to illness, morbidity and mortality.
prediction - Answers estimating the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation such as
the risk for a disease or injury in different populations, estimating behaviors that promote health or
prevent illness and prediction of health care required bases on patient needs and values.
Control - Answers the ability to write a prescription to produce the desired results also known as
the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome.
History of research - Answers began with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war and resulted in
society beginning to accept responsibility for testing public water, improving sanitation, preventing
starvation, and decreasing morbidity and mortality rates.
Case Study - Answers involves in-depth analysis and systematic description of one patient or group
of similar to promote understanding of healthcare interventions.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses - Answers QSEN focused on developing the requisite
knowledge, skills, and attitude statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and
graduate education
Knowledge - Answers essential information, acquired in a variety of ways, that is expected to be an
accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used to direct a person's actions.
Ways of acquiring knowledge - Answers traditions - beliefs based on customs and trends
authority - from persons with expertise and power to influence
borrowing - appropriating and using knowledge from other fields or practices
trail and error- with this strategy knowledge is gained by experience in uncertainty and not usually
shared
personal experience - enables the nurse to cluster ideas into a meaningful whole
role modeling - by imitating the behaviors of an expert.
intuition - insight into a situation that cannot be explained logically
reasoning- processing and organizing ideas to reach conclusions.
Inductive reasoning - from the specific to the general
deductive reasoning - from the general to the specific
Three research methods - Answers quantitative, qualitative, and outcome research method
Quantitative Research - Answers is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data
are used to obtain information about the world while holding the position that "truth" is absolute
and that a single reality can be defined by careful measurement.
Qualitative Research - Answers is a systematic, subjective approach used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning. This research method evolved from the
2026
Research - Answers to search again and to examine carefully as in a diligent and systematic inquiry
or study that validates and refines existing knowledge and develops a new empirical body of
knowledge for a discipline or profession.
Nursing research - Answers is a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and
generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing.
Goal of nursing - Answers an evidence based practice that promotes quality, safe, and cost
effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare providers, and the healthcare system.
Evidence-based practice - Answers evolves from the integration of the best research evidence with
clinical expertise and patients' needs and values.
best research evidence - Answers empirical knowledge generated fro the synthesis of quality study
findings to address a practice problem.
clinical expertise - Answers knowledge and skills of the healthcare professional who is providing
care
Components of research evidence - Answers description, explanation, prediction, and control of
phenomena
Description - Answers involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena
such as incidence and spread, cluster of symptoms, description of individual responses, description
of health promotion and illness prevention, and determination of incidence of disease locally.
explanation - Answers clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies possible reasons
why certain events occur such as determination of assessment data, link to diagnosis, link of
causative risk factors or causes to illness, morbidity and mortality.
prediction - Answers estimating the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation such as
the risk for a disease or injury in different populations, estimating behaviors that promote health or
prevent illness and prediction of health care required bases on patient needs and values.
Control - Answers the ability to write a prescription to produce the desired results also known as
the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome.
History of research - Answers began with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war and resulted in
society beginning to accept responsibility for testing public water, improving sanitation, preventing
starvation, and decreasing morbidity and mortality rates.
Case Study - Answers involves in-depth analysis and systematic description of one patient or group
of similar to promote understanding of healthcare interventions.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses - Answers QSEN focused on developing the requisite
knowledge, skills, and attitude statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and
graduate education
Knowledge - Answers essential information, acquired in a variety of ways, that is expected to be an
accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used to direct a person's actions.
Ways of acquiring knowledge - Answers traditions - beliefs based on customs and trends
authority - from persons with expertise and power to influence
borrowing - appropriating and using knowledge from other fields or practices
trail and error- with this strategy knowledge is gained by experience in uncertainty and not usually
shared
personal experience - enables the nurse to cluster ideas into a meaningful whole
role modeling - by imitating the behaviors of an expert.
intuition - insight into a situation that cannot be explained logically
reasoning- processing and organizing ideas to reach conclusions.
Inductive reasoning - from the specific to the general
deductive reasoning - from the general to the specific
Three research methods - Answers quantitative, qualitative, and outcome research method
Quantitative Research - Answers is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data
are used to obtain information about the world while holding the position that "truth" is absolute
and that a single reality can be defined by careful measurement.
Qualitative Research - Answers is a systematic, subjective approach used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning. This research method evolved from the
