Evidence Based Practice

Question 1

What are the 4 types of quantitative research

Answer 1

Descriptive
Correlational
Quasi-experimental
Experimental

Question 2

Traditional knowledge

Answer 2

Generation to generation

“We’ve always done it this way”

Question 3

Authoritative knowledge

Answer 3

Comes from expert, accepted as truth

ex. Senior staff nurse teaches new grad more effective methods of technical procedure

Question 4

Scientific knowledge (EBP)

Answer 4

Obtained through scientific method, research; new ideas tested and measured systematically using objective criteria

Question 5

Benefits of Nursing Theory

Answer 5

Directs nurses toward common goal
Leads to improved patient care
Provides rationale and knowledgeable reasons for nursing actions
Gives nurses knowledge base of necessary for appropriate actions
Helps resolve current nursing issues
Serves research, education, and practice
Prepares nurses to question assumptions and values
Holistic patient care
Individualized care to meet needs of patients
Promotion of health
Prevention or treatment of illness

Question 6

Goal of nursing research

Answer 6

Expand nursing knowledge to improve ways to promote and maintain health

Question 7

PICOT

Answer 7

P = patient/population
I = intervention
C = comparison
O = outcome
T = time

Question 8

What are the 4 types of qualitative research?

Answer 8

Phenomenology
Grounded theory
Ethnography
Historical

Question 9

Descriptive research

Answer 9

To explore and describe events in real-life situations, describing concepts and identifying relationships between and among events

Often used to generate new knowledge about topics with little or no prior research

Question 10

Correlational

Answer 10

To examine the type and degree of relationships between two or more variables (varies from -1 to +1)

Question 11

Quasi-experimental research

Answer 11

Cause & effect, clinical setting (effects of nursing interventions on patient outcomes)

Question 12

Experimental

Answer 12

Cause & effect, highly controlled (lab) setting

Question 13

Phenomenology

Answer 13

Describe experiences as they are lived by the subjects being studied;
Meaning of the experience within each person’s own reality

Question 14

Grounded theory

Answer 14

The discovery of how people describe their own reality and how their beliefs are related to their actions in a social scene;
Other’s POV (how to cope with ill child)
ex. Someone’s situation and how its affecting yourself

Question 15

Ethnography

Answer 15

Interview, examines issues of culture for nursing

Question 16

Historical

Answer 16

Past events used to understand current events

ex. Hand hygiene