Nursing research - Answers diligent, systematic inquiry to validate and refine existing knowledge and
develop new knowledge.
EBP (evidence based practice) - Answers is the integration of best research evidence with clinical
expertise and patient circumstances and values in the delivery of quality, safe, and cost-effective
health care.
Evidence-based guidelines - Answers are rigorous and explicit clinical guidelines based on the
bestresearch available.
Florence Nightingale - Answers was the first nurse researcher who developed empirical knowledge
toimprove nursing practice.
Nurses with different degrees (BSN, MSN, doctoral) - Answers all have varying depths of knowledge
related to research and EBP.
Quantitative research - - Answers formal, objective, rigorous, and systematic process forgenerating
NUMERICAL information.
Descriptive - - Answers exploration of phenomena in real-life situations.
Correlational - - Answers systematic investigation of relationships among variables.
Quasi-Experimental - - Answers examine casual relationships or determine the effect of one variable
on another.
Experimental - - Answers objective, systematic, and highly controlled investigation conducted for the
purposes of predicting and controlling phenomena in nursing practice.
Basic research - Answers in the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake.
Applied research (i.e. practical research) - Answers generates knowledge that will directly influence
or improve clinical practice.
Steps of quantitative research process include - Answers research problem and purpose, review of
relevant literature, study framework, research objectives/questions/hypotheses, study variables,
study design, population and sample, measurement methods, data collection, data analysis, and
discussion of research outcomes
Research requires - Answers rigor and control.
Rigor - - Answers requires discipline, adherence to detail, precision, and accuracy.
Control - - Answers imposing of rules by researchers to decrease the possibility of error, increasing an
accurate reflection of reality.
Qualitative research - - Answers systematic approach used to describe experiences and situations
from the perspective of persons in the situation.
Data is collected through - Answers interviews, focus groups, observation, and examination of
documents and media.
Phenomenological - - Answers examines an experience and provides interpretation that enhances the
meaning of the experience while staying true to the perspectives of those who lived the experience.
Provides a thorough description of a lived experience.
Grounded Theory - - Answers explores underlying social processes through the symbols of language,
religion, relationships, and clothing; describes the deeper meaning of an event as a theoretical
framework.
Ethnographic - - Answers observe and interview people within a CULTURE.
Exploratory-Descriptive - - Answers provides information that will promote understanding of an
experience from the perspective of the persons living the experience and may solve a problem.
Researchers are often exploring a new topic or describing a situation.
Unethical research - - Answers Nazi Medical Experiments, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Willowbrook
Study, Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Study.
Ethical Standards for Research - Answers - International (example - Nuremberg Code), USA (example
Belmont Report)
Protecting people - Answers who participate in research requires standards and laws.
Standards to protection of human rights - - Answers respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
Human rights - - Answers right to self-determination, right to privacy, right to anonymity and
confidentiality, right to protection from discomfort and harm, right to fair selection and treatment.
Informed consents - - Answers must ensure subjects/participants have full disclosure of essential
information about the study, comprehension by a competent subject, and voluntary agreement to
participate.