EBP Ch 1-3

Knowledge: a person w/expertise & power who is able to influence opinion & behavior (ex. nurse who publishes books)pg.11

Ability to write a prescription to produce the desired results (p.19)

Involves identifying & understanding nature of nursing phenomena & sometimes the relationships among them (p.18)

Blueprine for conducting a study tht maximizes control over factors tht could interfere w/study's desired outcome(pg.56)

Environment that the researcher has manipulated or modified in some way & limits effects of extraneous variables

Florence nightingale was the 1st nurse researcher who developed empirical knowledge to improve nursing practice.

Reduce, organize, & give meaning to data & address research purpose/ objectives, ?s, or hypotheses (p.56)

Descriptive & correlational studies are often in these settings

Tradition, authority, borrowing, trial & error, personal experience, role modeling, intuition, reasoning, & research

Mixed Methods Research is an approach to inquiry tht combines quantitative & qualitative into one study. (pg.25)

Fixed questions, no fixed response (pg.77)

Purpose is to describe experiences as they are lived or to capture "lived experiences" of study participants (pg.65)

Theoretical basis of study tht guides development of study & enables researher to link findings to nursing (p.56)

Examine CAUSUAL relationships or determine the effect of 1 variable on another (p.31)

Initiative identified requisite knowledge, skills,& attitude for each competencies for prelicensure & graduate education

involves systematic investigation of relationships b/w or among variables(p.31)

Involve imposing rules by researchers to decrease possibly of error & increasing probability findings are accurate(p.34)

Method to study how CULTURES develop & are maintained overtime (pg.70)

EX: All humans experience loss & all adolescents are humans. Therefore, adolescents experience loss. (p.14)

Inductive technique tht emerged from discipline of sociology; real word based on data PROVIDED by participants (pg.67)

Generated from problem & identifies the specific goal or focus of study (p.56)

Exists all studies & can interfere w/obtaining clear understanding of relationship among study variables (p.35)

Artifically constructed enviroment devloped for sole purpose of conducting research (p.36)

Defined as a scientific process tht validates & refines existing knowledge & generates new info tht influences nursing

Clarifies the relationships among phenomena & identifies possible reasons why certain events occur (p.18)

Involves analyzing data & presenting a rich word picture of the phenonmenon as interpretated by researcher (pg.65)

Focus groups maybe conducted by this & may help elicit help of of them w/similar characteristics (pg. 79)

Researcher places findings in larger context & may link different themes or factors in findings to each other(p.85)

All elements meet certain criteria for inclusion in study (pg.56)

Knowledge: an approach w/unknown outcomes is used in situations of uncertainty in which other sources unavailable

Concepts at various levels of abstraction tht are measured, manipulated, or controlled in a study

Moves from specific to general; particiular instances=observed & combined to general statement

Precise & systemic gathering of info relevant to research purpose or objectives,?s, or hypotheses of study (p.56)

Knowledge: Enables novice nurse to learn thru observing & interacting w/highly competent, expert nurse (ex?) (pg. 13)

steps assessment, diagnosis, plan,implementation,evaluation, & modification (p.37)

Formulated to bridge the gap b/w more abstractly stated research proble & purpose & study design & data plan (p.56)

Locatio in which a study is conducted (p.35)

INCLUDES identifying, locating, appraising, & synthesizing quality research evidence (pg23)

EBP is the conscientious integreation of best research evidence with what? in the delivery of...

Exploratory-Descriptive research provide info & insight into clinical or practice problems

Used to describe life experiences & give them meaning. Provides meaning & understanding to life experiences, & cultures

Using numerical data to obtain info about world & to describe, examine relationships & determine cause & effect (p.25)

Defined as diligent systematic inquiry to validate & refine existing knowledge & develop new knowledge

Fundamental method of gathering data for qualitative studies; aims to gather 1st hand info in natural settings (pg. 79)

objective systematic highly controlled investigation conducted for predicting & controlling phenomena in nursing(p.32)

study involve implementing an intervention & examining effects of interention using methods of measurement(p.31)

Knowledge: EX. admired teachers, expert clinicans, or researchers (pg. 13)

(Practical research)include scientific investigation conducted to generate knowledge will directly improve nursing(p.33)

Uncontrolled real life situation or environment & means researcher does NOT manipulate or change environment

Systematic compilation & integration of qualitative study results to expand undestanding & develop interpretations(pg23)

Generates a picture of what is known & not known about a particular problem & provides reason why study is needed (p.56)

Initial statement or question may be "Tell me about a time when..." (pg.77)

Process of reading the data, breaking txt down into subparts, & giving a label to the part of txt (p.85)

Synthesis of quantitative, qualitative & mixed methods INCLUDES: variety of study designs even quasi experiemn(pg23)

Combine result from previous quantitative studis ito single statistica; analysis w/strong evidence of effectivness(pg23)

Knowledge: "truths" or beliefs based on customs or trends (ex. a nursing unit has a set of rules or traditions) pg.11

Used in daily activities & nursing practice;data collection, problem definition plan, implementation & evaluation (p.37)

(Pure/bench research) includes scientific investigations conducted for pursuit of knowledge (p.33)

Designed to obtain participants perceptions of specific topic in a permissive & nonthreatening setting (pg. 79)

Open-ended questions with probes (pg.77)

Queries made by researcher to obtain more info from participant about a particular interview question (pg.77)

the subjects or study participants (p.56)

Knowledge: Processing & organizing of ideas to research conclusions (pg. 13)

Moves from general to specific or from general premise/proposition to particular situation or conclusion

(ex. labs, research centers, & test units)

inclue finding,limitation,generalization of finding,conclusions, implications of nursing, & suggestations for furthering

Knowledge: Gaining knowledge by being personally involved in an event, situation, or circumstance (pg.12)

Structured comprehensive synthesis of literature review determines best research evidence avaliable to answer HC ?(pg23)

EX: HA is an alt lvl of health tht is stressful & terminal illness is too. All atl lvls of health are stressful(p.14)

Essential info that is acquired in a variety of ways & is expected to be reflection of realiy used to direct ppl actions

Knowledge: Involves the appropriation of & use of knowledge from other feilds to guide nursing (ex. psych for comm)pg.12

Knowledge: an insight into or understanding of a situation or event as a whole perso cannot explain logically (pg. 13)

EBP is the best research evidence w/clincial expertise & pt circumstances & values in the delivery of ____

An area of concern in which gao in knowledge needed for nursing. (p.56)

(Pure/bench research) includes scientific investigations conducted for pursuit of knowledge (p.33)

Rigourous application of a variety of research methods & more broad for individuals (p.38)

Process of assigning numerical values to objects, events, or situations in accord w/some rule (pg.56)

Exploration & description of phenomena in real-life situations. It provides account of characteristics using #s (p.30)

a subset of the population tht is selected for a particular study (p.56)