Intro Chapter 6 Flashcards
Nurses should always ask why
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As a nurse what is required throughout your lifetime
It is required that you are a lifelong learner and responsible for expanding your knowledge and keeping up with the research
What most all nursing actions be back by
Evidence, things known to have positive patient outcomes
Why do errors occur
Lack of focus, multitasking
Why are nurses called agents of change
Because they must stay current with interventions the result in good patient outcomes
What must nurses be in reference to research
Research literate, know how to read and understand research
What kind of study changes a practice commonly used
Several strong, objective, credible, studies
How do you define credible data
Their peer reviewed academic journals that can be accessed on trustworthy sources like a university library and health institution
What are academic peer reviewed journals
Research articles that a group of experts in a certain field have reviewed and published
What is the significance of academic peer reviewed journals
They build science
What are the elements to a research study
- Clear statement of research problem
- Purpose of study
- reason - Review of literature
- Pose hypothesis
- statement about expected relationship between study variables
- Clear description of variables
- dependent
- independent
- Research design
- qualitative
- quantitative
- mixed methods
- qualitative
- Defined population
- Analysis of data
- findings stated
- Conclusion
- implications stated
Dependent variable
Affected by an independent variables
Independent variables
Affect the dependent variables
cause explain or influence the dependent variable
Qualitative research
Experienced; finds meaning in behavior is experimental
Types of qualitative research
Phenomenology: draws meaning from complex realities
Ethnography: study of attitudes and beliefs of a specific group of people
Grounded theory: leads to development of a theoretical framework
History: expresses historical information
Quantitative research
Theoretical; involves measurement of outcomes using numerical data
Clinically used
Types of quantitative data
Basic research: acquisition of knowledge
Applied research: in the most; directed toward solving immediate practical problems and improving clinical practice
Correlational: identify as a positive and negative connection between variables
Credible margin of error between 0.001- 0.005
Experimental: determines cause and affect relationship
—— randomized controlled trials: placebo two groups
—— Quasi experimental: attempt to establish probable cause and affect relationship among variables
Define research ethics
Subjects must be informed of what the study is about, pros and cons, risks and benefits, and do so voluntarily
Research participants have what rights
Right to be fully informed, to quit, to be protected from harm I know they’re confidential it is being protected
Tuskegee syphilis study
An African-American males V US public health services they were told they were receiving free healthcare from the federal government well being infected with syphilis and not given cure or progressing disease and died
Nazi research studies
Unethical painful studies during concentration camps
The Belmont report
By national commission for the protection of human subjects of bio medical and behavioral research developed guidelines to share that research is conducted according to principles
