CHAPTER 2

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  • EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE occurs when the nurse can integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences.
  • BACCALAUREATE DEGREE basic understanding of the research process.
  • MASTER'S DEGREE evaluate research findings.
  • PRACTICE FOCUSED DOCTORAL DEGREE focus on the evaluation
  • RESEARCH FOCUSED DOCTORAL DEGREE conduct independent research.
  • QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH entails systematic collection, statistical analysis, and interpretation of numerical data.
  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH is the systematic collection and the matic analysis of narrative data.
  • PHENOMENOLOGY focuses on lived experiences.
  • ENTHNOGRAPHY focuses on cultural patterns of thoughts and behaviors.
  • GROUNDED THEORY focuses on social processes.
  • RESEARCH PROCESS is a method in which decisions are made that result in detailed plan or proposal for study.
  • One strategy for stating the problem you wish to explore is to use the PICO format.
  • P- Patient, population, participant, or problem of interest. I- Intervention or theraphy C- Comparison or control O- Outcome
  • A DEPENDENT VARIABLE is a behavior, characteristic, or outcome that the researcher wishes to explain or predict.
  • A INDEPENDENT VARIABLE is the presumed cause of or influence on the dependent variable.
  • A study METHODOLOGY can be thought of as its logistics or mechanics.
  • RESEARCH DESIGN refers to overall structure or blue print or the general layout of a study.
  • RELIABILITY refers to the consistency of measures.
  • VALIDITY refers to the completeness and conceptual accuracy of measures.
  • The of use of inferential statistics allows researcher to test hypotheses about relationships between variables or groups.
  • If results are statistically significant it means that they are not likely to have occured only by chance.
  • SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION is a through critique of a study for its conceptual and methodological integrity.
  • COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS involves analysis assessing study findings for their implementation potential.
  • COST BENEFITS ANALYSIS involves consideration of the potential risks and benefits.