Chapter One: An Introduction to Nursing
Research and Evidence Based Practice Study
Guide Rated A+
1). What does "research" mean?
Ans: to search again or examine carefully
2). What is the definition of "nursing research"?
Ans: a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates
new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice.
3). How is knowledge acquired in nursing?
Ans: tradition, authority, borrowing from other disciplines, trial and error, personal
experience, role modeling, intuition, reasoning, and nursing research.
4). What is quantitative research?
Ans: a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data are used to obtain
information about the world.
5). What is qualitative research?
Ans: a systematic, subjective approach to research that is used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning.
6). What are the major categories of qualitative research?
Ans: phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive, and
historical research
7). What are the four major categories of quantitative research?
Ans: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental
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Research and Evidence Based Practice Study
Guide Rated A+
1). What does "research" mean?
Ans: to search again or examine carefully
2). What is the definition of "nursing research"?
Ans: a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates
new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice.
3). How is knowledge acquired in nursing?
Ans: tradition, authority, borrowing from other disciplines, trial and error, personal
experience, role modeling, intuition, reasoning, and nursing research.
4). What is quantitative research?
Ans: a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data are used to obtain
information about the world.
5). What is qualitative research?
Ans: a systematic, subjective approach to research that is used to describe life
experiences and situations and give them meaning.
6). What are the major categories of qualitative research?
Ans: phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive, and
historical research
7). What are the four major categories of quantitative research?
Ans: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental
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