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GNUR 297 Midterm Exam Study Guide Module 1 Chapter 1: Nursing Research • Nursing Research: validates / refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge o Directly / indirectly influences nursing practice - Key EBP • Evidence based practice: based off studies that promote quality safe and cost effective outcomes o Best research evidence: empirical knowledge gained from quality study findings o Clinical expertise: knowledge and skill of the healthcare provider • Purposes of Research for EBP: o Description: identify SS, describe disease and all aspects of the patients life o Explanation: why certain events occur. Link data to diagnosis (risk factors to causes of illness) o Prediction: estimate a probable outcome (Predict risk, behavior) o Control: control or manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome • Case Study: in depth analysis and systematic description of a patient or group o Promotes understanding of health intervention - Practice related research • Nursing Competencies: Patient centered care, team work, EBP, quality improvement, safety, informatics o Quality / Safety Education for nurses: knowledge, skill and attitude statements for each competency • Nursing Traditions: Practice needs to focus more on EBP rather than tradition o Positive: developed from effective past experience o Negative: limit knowledge (often not questioned because it has been done for years) • Borrowing: taking knowledge from other disciplines (medical model) o Best to integrate other disciplines knowledge into the holistic view of nursing • Trial and Error: used when uncertain (knowledge unavailable) all patients are different o Can be harmful and time consuming - Best to use EBP when possible • Role Modeling: imitation - Mentor: intense role modeling • Intuition: insight that usually cant be explained logically (gut feeling) o Really is a result of deep knowledge (hard to communicate) • Reasoning: organizing ideas to get to a conclusion o Inductive: going from specific ideas to make a general statement o Deductive: general to specific ? Premise: a proposed relationship between concepts. Must be true to deduct • Quantitative Research: common in nursing (numerical) o Descriptive: describes situations o Correlational: examines relationships o Quasi-experimental: determine effectiveness of nursing intervention o Experimental: determine effectiveness of nursing intervention • Qualitative: subjective approach (more holistic) behaviors which are hard to quantitate (emotion) o Phenomenological: inductive descriptive approach (lived experience) o Grounded Theory: inductive technique to refine a theory about a particular phenomenon o Ethnographic: study culture o Exploratory-descriptive: investigates a problem in need of a solution o Historical: review past mistakes and accomplishments • Outcome Research: result of care (patients response, finances, satisfaction) • Strategies to Synthesize research evidence: o Systemic review: comprehensive synthesis of research literature ? Used to determine the best evidence available to address a health question o Meta analysis: combining results of 2 quant studies into single stat ? Highest level of evidence about an intervention o Qualitative research synthesis: integrating findings from qualitative studies o Meta-Synthesis: qualitative interpretation (rather than combination) o Mixed method systematic review: variety of study designs (qual quant) • Levels of Research Evidence: the strength of a study (it is a continuum) strengthened by repetition o Quantitative experimental: is the strongest • Critical Appraisal of Research: judge strength limitation meaning and significance of a study