Chapter 1 Integrating Research, EBP, And Quality Improvement Process

Question 1

Medicine

Answer 1

Identification and treatment of a disease condition based on specific evaluation of signs and symptoms, standard of care, evidence on likelihood of positive outcome

Question 2

Nursing

Answer 2

Identification and treatment of the patients response to an actual or potential health problem

Question 3

Collaborative problem

Answer 3

Actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect a change in patient status

Question 4

EBP

Answer 4

Allows someone to use the best available evidence from research with the integration of individual clinical expertise, as well as the patients values and preferences, to make clinical decisions

Question 5

Critical reader

Answer 5

Looks for assumptions, key concepts and ideas, supporting examples, implications and consequences, and any other structural features of the written text, to interpret and assess it accurately and fairly

Question 6

Nursing research

Answer 6

Systematic, rigorous, critical investigation that aims to answer questions about nursing phenomena

Question 7

Qualitative research

Answer 7

Seeks to understand the meaning of human experience 
Natural settings
Describes experiences
Subjective approach
Theory generating

Question 8

Quantitative

Answer 8

Seeks to test relationships or answer a question 
Cause-and-effect
Describes phenomena 
Objectivity is important 
Theory testing

Question 9

Research critique

Answer 9

Critical appraisal that objectively and critically evaluates a research report’s content for scientific merit and application process
Requires some knowledge

Question 10

Critical appraisal

Answer 10

Level 1-7

Question 11

Level 1

Answer 11

Systematic review

Question 12

Level 2

Answer 12

Designed RCT

Question 13

Level 3

Answer 13

Controlled trial without randomization

Question 14

Level 4

Answer 14

Single no experimental study

Question 15

Level 5

Answer 15

Systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies

Question 16

Level 6

Answer 16

Single descriptive or qualitative study

Question 17

Level 7

Answer 17

Opinion of authorities and reports of expert committees

Question 18

Quality

Answer 18

The extent to which a study’s design, implementation, and analysis minimize bias

Question 19

Quantity

Answer 19

The number of studies that have evaluated the research questions, sample size, as well as the strength

Question 20

Consistency

Answer 20

The degree to which other studies, with similar or different designs, investigating the same research question report similar findings

Question 21

Quality improvement

Answer 21

Is the systematic use of data to monitor the outcomes of care processes as well as the use of improvement methods to design and test changes in practice, the aim of which is to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems

Question 22

What is the most common first step in the quality improvement process?

Answer 22

Conducting an assessment

Question 23

What is an assessment of a group of research studies that test similar research question?

Answer 23

Systematic review