IECP Exam 1 | 56 Questions and Answers
Define "tradition" as a source of nursing actions are based on traditions, customs, and/or "unit
evidence for nursing practice culture" and not on sound evidence
Define "authority" as a source of reliance on someone with specialized expertise (but often expertise
evidence for nursing practice may be based on personal experience)
Define "clinical experience/trial based on personal experience but may be too narrow to be useful or may be
and error/intuition" as a source of biased
evidence for nursing practice
Define "assembled information" as info that has been assembled for various purposed but can serve as
a source of evidence for nursing a guide to evaluate clinical practices
practice. An example of this
"evidence" would be quality
improvement data.
nurses base their clinical practice and decisions on rigorous research finding
Define "disciplined research" as a
source of evidence for nursing
practice *best method*
= a world view; a general perspective on the complexities of the
What is a paradigm?
real world, with certain assumptions about realty
What re 2 key paradigms for
nursing research?
2 key paradigms: positivist and constructivist
What is the positivist Positivist:
assumption/tradition when -reality exists
questioning the nature of
-there is a real world driven by natural causes
reality?
Constructivist:
What is the constructivist
assumption/tradition when -reality is multiple and subjective, constructed by individuals
questioning the nature of
reality?
What are research methods? the technique used to structure a study and to gather, analyze, and interpret
info
, = investigations in which numbers are used to measure variables
What is quantitative research? Is it
such as characteristics, concepts or things
mostly aligned with positivist or
constructivist tradition?
**positivist tradition
= investigations which use sensory methods such as listening or
What is qualitative research? Is it
observing to gather & organize data into patterns or themes
mostly aligned with positivist or
constructivist tradition?
**constructivist tradition
Which of these aspects belongs to Quantitative:
Quantitative and which belong Orderly
to qualitative? procedures
Orderly Pre-specified
procedures plan Control
Dynamic design over context
Pre-specified Formal
plan Holistic measurement
Control over Seeks
context generalizations
Context-bound
Formal Qualitativ
measurement e: Dynamic
Humans as design
instruments Seeks Holistic
generalizations Context-
Seeks patterns bound
Humans as
instruments Seeks
patterns
descriptive = what is it?
What is the difference between explanatory = why/how are phenomena related?
descriptive, explanatory, and
predictive research?
predictive = forecasts precise relationships between parts of
phenomena or differences between groups --> when something
might occur
1. ask question/define problem
2. search for evidence
3. appraise - appraise the evidence gathered
4. synthesize - interpret what was appraised
Define "tradition" as a source of nursing actions are based on traditions, customs, and/or "unit
evidence for nursing practice culture" and not on sound evidence
Define "authority" as a source of reliance on someone with specialized expertise (but often expertise
evidence for nursing practice may be based on personal experience)
Define "clinical experience/trial based on personal experience but may be too narrow to be useful or may be
and error/intuition" as a source of biased
evidence for nursing practice
Define "assembled information" as info that has been assembled for various purposed but can serve as
a source of evidence for nursing a guide to evaluate clinical practices
practice. An example of this
"evidence" would be quality
improvement data.
nurses base their clinical practice and decisions on rigorous research finding
Define "disciplined research" as a
source of evidence for nursing
practice *best method*
= a world view; a general perspective on the complexities of the
What is a paradigm?
real world, with certain assumptions about realty
What re 2 key paradigms for
nursing research?
2 key paradigms: positivist and constructivist
What is the positivist Positivist:
assumption/tradition when -reality exists
questioning the nature of
-there is a real world driven by natural causes
reality?
Constructivist:
What is the constructivist
assumption/tradition when -reality is multiple and subjective, constructed by individuals
questioning the nature of
reality?
What are research methods? the technique used to structure a study and to gather, analyze, and interpret
info
, = investigations in which numbers are used to measure variables
What is quantitative research? Is it
such as characteristics, concepts or things
mostly aligned with positivist or
constructivist tradition?
**positivist tradition
= investigations which use sensory methods such as listening or
What is qualitative research? Is it
observing to gather & organize data into patterns or themes
mostly aligned with positivist or
constructivist tradition?
**constructivist tradition
Which of these aspects belongs to Quantitative:
Quantitative and which belong Orderly
to qualitative? procedures
Orderly Pre-specified
procedures plan Control
Dynamic design over context
Pre-specified Formal
plan Holistic measurement
Control over Seeks
context generalizations
Context-bound
Formal Qualitativ
measurement e: Dynamic
Humans as design
instruments Seeks Holistic
generalizations Context-
Seeks patterns bound
Humans as
instruments Seeks
patterns
descriptive = what is it?
What is the difference between explanatory = why/how are phenomena related?
descriptive, explanatory, and
predictive research?
predictive = forecasts precise relationships between parts of
phenomena or differences between groups --> when something
might occur
1. ask question/define problem
2. search for evidence
3. appraise - appraise the evidence gathered
4. synthesize - interpret what was appraised
