Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Nursing research?

Answer 1

Nursing research is specifically focused on questions or problems related to nurses or client’s care of a nurse.
-Clinical nursing research focusses on the practice setting.

Question 2

Why does research matter?

Answer 2

The procedures you perform as a nurse have evolved due to research.

Question 3

What is the magnet status?

Answer 3

• Hospitals that show a propensity to utilize evidence-based practice can achieve this.

Question 4

What roles do nurses have?

Answer 4

• They can have an active role or a passive role in research.

Question 5

What are some active roles?

Answer 5

• Active roles include contributing to an idea for clinical inquiry, assisting in the collection of research information, offering advice to clients about participating in a study, or discussing the implications of a study in a journal club.

Question 6

What are some passive roles?

Answer 6

• is searching for research evidence, much like you will do in this class.

Question 7

What is evidence- based practice?

Answer 7

• A strong push in which nurses using research to inform their practice. This will require nurses to be adept at finding and critiquing research to determine if the results are valid.

Question 8

Systematic review

Answer 8

• happens when multiple studies are done

- combine the results from several studies on a particular topic

Question 9

What direct link does clinical research need to have

Answer 9

• Quality research is important, but studies need to have a direct link to clinical practice, including a focus on patients, and having a way to address health or cultural disparities in healthcare.

Question 10

Methods that require caution

Answer 10

• Tradition and authority - strong influences such as textbook or seasoned nurse but can’t guarantee that is it based off of evidence
• Clinical experience and trial and error: trial and error is not disciplined enough to determine an intervention is reliably correlated to its results.

Question 11

Methods that are prudent

Answer 11

Assembled information:
- represent the quality of nursing care. Compiled on a national level and benchmarks are set for facilities to aim to meet. It is prudent to use to determine is a hospital or a unit needs to change its practice, but by itself this data does not guide the practice.

Question 12

Methods that are recommended

Answer 12

Disciplined research!!

• search literature for methods to improve a problem and analyze the studies
• Find a common intervention supported by several studies and precede to present findings to your unit practice council.

Question 13

Paradigms

Answer 13

• a worldview or general perspective in the world’s complexities

Question 14

Positive paradigm

Answer 14

• ## is associated more with quantitative data as it seeks objectively and to distance the researcher from what is being researched.

Question 15

Constructive’s paradigm

Answer 15

• places the researcher in direct contact with the participants and subjectively is important and is more associated with qualitative research.

Question 16

Both paradigms

Answer 16

• seek to answer questions
• solve problems
• gather evidence
• require human cooperation whether it be consent or active participation
• obey ethical demands
• have limitations

Question 17

Quantitative research uses a _________

Answer 17

-systemic process meaning it progresses through a series of steps.

Question 18

Quantitative research seeks to minimize what?

Answer 18

• Bias and maximize validity
• evidence is measurable and gathered from the senses
• may use formal instruments to collect data

Question 19

Quantitative Research Generalizability

Answer 19

• refers to results that can apply to the general population and not just the participants in the study.

Question 20

Qualitative research uses a _____ process

Answer 20

• Inductive
• • going from general to specific
• steps are not defined
• focuses on the human experience
• Results are less likely to be able to be applied to those not included in the study.

Question 21

In qualitative data the only numerical info is related..

Answer 21

to someone’s demographics

Question 22

Descriptive Study

Answer 22

• Aimed at describing a phenomemon
• a study that measures the amount of stress patients face before surgery. it focuses on measruing and describing the stress.

Question 23

Identification

Answer 23

only qualitative and aims to identify a phenomenon that has not been researched before

Question 24

Exploratory

Answer 24

takes a concept and explores factors that impact it.

Question 25

Prediction and control

Answer 25

• exclusively quantitative predicting an outcome based on research evidence. Without explaining why the outcome would occur.
• Ex: why a 40-year-old woman would most likely have a child with down syndrome versus a 35-year-old woman. Does not explain why older age causes this.

Question 26

Therapy Intervention Studies

Answer 26

• Seek to determine if an intervention will improve a healthcare problem.

Question 27

Diagnostic Study

Answer 27

• focus on effective methods to screen diagnose or assess patients.
• A study that measures two diff instruments for depression to determine if one is more accurate.

Question 28

Prognosis Study

Answer 28

• focus on disease and how a factor can influence outcomes.
• Longer term and help out with lifestyle choices
• effect of hypoglycemia on a pt with leukemia

Question 29

Etiology

Answer 29

• studies that seek to find the link btwn something and an outcome.
• EX: smoking and cancer

Question 30

Meaning and process

Answer 30

• is the purpose most likely associated with qualitative research. Aim to find the patient’s perspective
• asking a patient about their thoughts about falls