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This comprehensive overview of nursing research covers key concepts, the research process, and various methodologies. It delves into the definition of nursing research, the role of theory, and the principles of evidence-based practice. The document discusses quantitative research designs, research problems, variables, conceptual models, and research-related errors. This resource is valuable for students, researchers, and healthcare professionals interested in understanding the foundations and applications of nursing research.
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Nursing Research - correct answer a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences the delivery of EBP’ Theory - correct answer a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that includes defined concepts, existence statements, and relational statements that are interrelated to present a systematic view of a phenomenon’ Evidence-based Practice - correct answer evolves from the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient needs and values’ Quantitative Research - correct answer through counting or measuring, provides better understanding of one or more of the following three aspects of reality: incidence, connections between two ideas, and cause-and-effect relationships’ Two main types of quantitative research - correct answer interventional-includes experimental and quasi-experimental designs and noninterventional-include descriptive and correlational designs’
Steps in quantitative research process - correct answer 1) Choice of problem area and purpose’
Independent variable - correct answer the intervention or treatment that the researcher applies to the experimental group, but not to the control group’ Dependent variable - correct answer the result or outcome that is the study's focus’ Conceptual definition - correct answer makes a concept understandable, revealing its meaning’ Operational definition - correct answer makes a concept measurable, indicting the way it will be measured in a particular study’ Hypotheses - correct answer Four categories:
Relational statements - correct answer the explanation of the connection between or among concepts’ They provide the structure of a framework, and are essential for constructing an integrated framework that guides the development of a study's objectives, questions, and hypotheses’ Conceptual model or framework - correct answer one type, a grand theory, is a set of highly abstract, related constructs’ Broadly explains phenomena of interest, expresses assumptions, and reflects a philosophical stance’ The most important step in the research process as it should be well integrated with the methodology’ Construct Validity - correct answer in quantitative research relates to whether a study measures all aspects of the concepts it purports to measure’ Direct result of how well the researcher has conceptually defined and then operationalized a study's variables’ Internal Validity - correct answer an assessment of the degree to which the measured relationships among variables are truly due to their interaction, and the degree to which other intrusive variables might have accounted for the measured value’ Control groups - correct answer The presence of a randomly assigned control group is a requirement of experimental designs’ In experimental research control
Type II Error - correct answer The probability (set at 20%) of accepting the null hypothesis when it is false’ xz