NUR 3405 Research Quiz 1, Questions with accurate answers, rated A. 2022/2023

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NUR 3405 Research Quiz 1, Questions with accurate answers, rated A. 2022/2023 What is research? - ✔✔a process to discover new knowledge or new evidence using disciplined methods What is nu... rsing research? - ✔✔systematic inquiry to develop trustworthy evidence about issues of importance to the nursing profession What is clinical nursing research designed for? - ✔✔to guide nursing practice Who was the nurse that pioneered nursing research? - ✔✔Florence Nightingale What were Florence Nightingale's major accomplishments? - ✔✔best known for her data collection and analyses during the Crimean War and through EBP she reduced the mortality rate dramatically in the population of soldiers she cared for What were some of the strategies that Florence Nightingale implemented for patient care? - ✔✔clean environment, clean water, and sunlight; infection control What is evidence based practice? - ✔✔making clinical decisions about patient care based on the best possible evidence available What are the three major components of EBP? - ✔✔best research available, clinical expertise, patient values and preferences What is a key ingredient in EBP that makes a difference in patient care? - ✔✔the effort to personalize the best evidence to fit a specific patient's needs within a particular clinical context What is a paradigm? - ✔✔world view or general perspective on the world's complexities What is the positivist paradigm? - ✔✔reality exists, there is a real world driven by natural causes What is the role of the researcher in the positivist paradigm? - ✔✔the researcher is independent from those being studied, values and biases are to be held in check What is the constructivist paradigm? - ✔✔reality is multiple and subjective What is the role of the researcher in the constructivist paradigm? - ✔✔the researcher interacts with those being studied, subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable What is are the characteristics of quantitative research? - ✔✔positivist, orderly procedure, systematic plan, control over context, formal measurement, empirical evidence, seeks generalizations What are the characteristics of qualitative research? - ✔✔constructivist, dynamic design, holistic, context-bound, humans as instruments, qualitative information, seeks patterns What are some steps included in quantitative research? - ✔✔description, exploration, prediction and control, explanation What are some steps included in qualitative research? - ✔✔identification, description, exploration, explanation What is a major assumption of the constructivist paradigm world view? - ✔✔reality is mentally constructed by individuals T/F: Quantitative research attempts to identify a phenomenon - ✔✔False, qualitative identifies T/F: A major assumption of the constructivist paradigm is that the researcher is independent of those being studied - ✔✔False, the researcher interacts with subjects What is the correct term for participants in a qualitative study? - ✔✔informants T/F: The empirical phase of a qualitative study involves collecting and preparing data for analysis - ✔✔True, this is the third phase of the study What are some types of qualitative descriptive research? - ✔✔ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology What type of study would you choose when researching a diabetes intervention? - ✔✔experimental Which research phase would be composed of preparing a poster display for an upcoming conference? - ✔✔dissemination phase What is the inductive method? - ✔✔experiment first and explain later What is the deductive method? - ✔✔explain first and verify later What was the major unethical study in the 1930s and 40s? - ✔✔Nazi medical experiments What was unethical about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? - ✔✔researchers withheld treatment from sick people just to see how the disease would evolve What is the Nuremberg Code? - ✔✔set of ethical standards for human experimentation, is produced as the result of a trail against several Nazi doctors who conducted experiments on prisoners during WWII What is the Belmont Report? - ✔✔ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research What is beneficence? - ✔✔above all, do no harm; imposes a duty on researchers to minimize harm and maximize benefits What is justice? - ✔✔includes participants' right to fair treatment and their right to privacy; the benefits of the study must be equally offered to all participants What is included under the respect for human dignity? - ✔✔the right to self-determination and the right to full disclosure; deciding voluntarily whether or not to participate after receiving a description of the study, the right to refuse, and the potential risks and benefits What is informed consent? - ✔✔participants have adequate information about the research and have free choice in deciding to participate or not What is the reason for debriefings and referrals? - ✔✔some study findings can be shared and medical referrals should be given as needed What are special considerations for vulnerable groups? - ✔✔children or cognitively impaired people may not be able to give fully informed consent What are some examples of external reviews? - ✔✔human subject committees, IRB Which groups are considered vulnerable? - ✔✔children, mentally ill people, severely ill people, terminally ill people, institutionalized people, pregnant women The principle of justice ensures a participant's right to - ✔✔privacy What are evidence hierarchies? - ✔✔involve ranking evidence sources according to the strength of evidence they provide, may depend on the type of question being asked, within any level evidence quality can vary What is considered the pinnacle of the evidence hierarchy? - ✔✔systematic reviews [Show More]

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