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Week 1 Flashcards

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What are the 4 areas of nursing knowledge?

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a) Empirical knowledge
b) Aesthetics, art of nursing
c) The component of personal knowing
d) Ethics

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Define research.

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The systematic, rigorous, logical investigation with the aim of answering questions regarding nursing.

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Define phenomena.

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Occurrences, circumstances or facts that are perceptible by the senses.

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What is evidence based practice?

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Conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

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What is evidence informed practice?

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Builds on the foundation of evidence based practice, also involves acknowledging and considering myriad factors that constitute local ways of knowing, Indigenous knowledge, cultural and religious norms and clinical judgment.

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Why is nursing research important?

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Because it expands the unique body of scientific knowledge that improves health care and informs the evidence-informed practice.

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What is an informed consumer?

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A person who is educated on how to interpret research and apply research to practice.

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What is a knowledge gap?

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The absence of theoretical or scientific knowledge relevant to the phenomenon of interest.

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What is knowledge generation?

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The conduct of research that provides answers to well-thought-out research questions.

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What are philosophical beliefs?

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Motivating values, concepts, principles and the nature of human knowledge of an individual, group or culture. Basis of worldview/ paradigm.

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What are the 3 paradigms that nursing research is guided by?

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a) Positivism/post-positivism
b) Constructivism
c) Critical theory

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Define ontology.

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Study of being or existence and its relationship to nonexistentence. Address 2 major questions: a) What can be said to exist? and b) What can these things be sorted into?

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What is epistemology?

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Deals with what is known as truth. Addresses a) What is knowledge? b) How do we know what we know? and c) What is the scope or limitation of knowledge.

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What is positivism?

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A philosophical orientation that suggests that a material world exists, that it can be sensed.

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What is post-positivism?

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Emphasizes that our observations cannot always be relied upon because they are subject to error and human bias.

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What is constructivism?

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A philosophical orientation that suggests reality and the way in which we understand our world are largely dependent on our perception.

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What do critical social theorists philosophical orientation suggest?

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They suggest that reality and our understanding of reality are constructed by people with the most power at a particular point in history. They place a strong emphasis on understanding health and illness within the context of history.

18
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What is quantitative research?

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A systematic, interactive and subjective research method used to describe and give meaning to life experiences.

19
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What is an example of a theoretical framework used to guide researchers?

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The social determinants of health.

20
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What is a theory?

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A set of interrelated concepts that provides a systematic view of a phenomenon. Theory guides practice and research.

21
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What is inductive reasoning?

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A process of starting with the details of experience and moving to a general picture. Involves observation of a particular set of instances that belong to and can be IDed as part of a larger set.

22
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What is deductive reasoning?

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A process of starting with the general picture and moving to a specific direction for practice and research.

23
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What is a model?

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A symbolic representation of a set of concepts that is created to depict relationships.

24
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What are variables?

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Elements that can be observed through the senses.

25
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What is a conceptual definition?

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Like a dictionary definition, convey the general meaning of a concept.

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What is an operational definition?

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Specifies how the concept will be measured.

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What is a concept?

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An image of symbolic representation of an abstract idea.

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What is a conceptual framework?

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A structure of concepts, theories or both that is used to construct a map for study.

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What is a theoretical framework?

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A structure of concepts, theories, or both that is used to construct a map for the study.

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