EBP Exam #1
Florence Nightingale
Was the first nurse researcher & made changes for patients to include
sanitation, ventilation, clean water and proper diet
Jeanne Quint Benoliel (1960s)
she began research on subjective experiences of patients after diagnosis
with a life-threatening illness.
Josephine Goldmark
identified gaps or deficiencies in nursing education
Kathryn Barnard
she focused her research on the identification and assessment of children
at risk of developmental and health problems
Dorothy Brooten
led her team to the testing of a model of site transitional care
What are the ways of acquiring knowledge in nursing?
Traditions
Authority
Borrowing
Trial and Error
Personal Experience
Role modeling
Intuition
Reasoning
, What are the five steps to the problem-solving process for nurses?
1. Identify the problem, What intervention to use...what is the appropriate
test, what is the best method for delivering nursing care
2. Find the best possible evidence to solve this problem using a breach of
literature
3. Determine weather the evidence is reliable and valid
4. Use this evidence to provide care using the practitioner's own expertise
and experience and the wishes of the patient.
5. Reflect on the outcome and the practitioners performance
Methods to collect data
1. Questionaries/Servey forms (Can sometimes have a poor response rate,
people lie, restricted to liberate subjects)
2. Rating Scales
3. Interviews (Can be used with those who cannot read, costly, interviewer
may affect responses, time consuming)
4.Observations (Limits self-report bias, poor reliability for high inference
observation)
5. Tests (Test anxiety, economical, standardized test may be too broad)
Ghost Authors
those who participate in research, data analysis, or writing but are not
named or disclosed and they credit another person as the author
Nuremburg Code
a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation.
Subject
an individual that participate in research
Florence Nightingale
Was the first nurse researcher & made changes for patients to include
sanitation, ventilation, clean water and proper diet
Jeanne Quint Benoliel (1960s)
she began research on subjective experiences of patients after diagnosis
with a life-threatening illness.
Josephine Goldmark
identified gaps or deficiencies in nursing education
Kathryn Barnard
she focused her research on the identification and assessment of children
at risk of developmental and health problems
Dorothy Brooten
led her team to the testing of a model of site transitional care
What are the ways of acquiring knowledge in nursing?
Traditions
Authority
Borrowing
Trial and Error
Personal Experience
Role modeling
Intuition
Reasoning
, What are the five steps to the problem-solving process for nurses?
1. Identify the problem, What intervention to use...what is the appropriate
test, what is the best method for delivering nursing care
2. Find the best possible evidence to solve this problem using a breach of
literature
3. Determine weather the evidence is reliable and valid
4. Use this evidence to provide care using the practitioner's own expertise
and experience and the wishes of the patient.
5. Reflect on the outcome and the practitioners performance
Methods to collect data
1. Questionaries/Servey forms (Can sometimes have a poor response rate,
people lie, restricted to liberate subjects)
2. Rating Scales
3. Interviews (Can be used with those who cannot read, costly, interviewer
may affect responses, time consuming)
4.Observations (Limits self-report bias, poor reliability for high inference
observation)
5. Tests (Test anxiety, economical, standardized test may be too broad)
Ghost Authors
those who participate in research, data analysis, or writing but are not
named or disclosed and they credit another person as the author
Nuremburg Code
a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation.
Subject
an individual that participate in research
