NURSIG RESEARCH FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE! 5/5/14

 EBP: o Evidence Based Practice is the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care decisions o Nursing decisions need to be based on evidence. o Many recent clinical practice changes reflect the impac ...

 EBP: o Evidence Based Practice is the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care decisions o Nursing decisions need to be based on evidence. o Many recent clinical practice changes reflect the impact of research. o The strongest type of evidence is systematic reviews followed by single RCT then quasi experiment.  PICO/PIO: o These help practitioners develop well worded questions that facilitate a search for evidence. o PIO- simple form. P(population) I (intervention) O(outcomes) o PICO when a comparison component is added. C(comparison) o A T(time) or an S(setting) may be added o Based on these questions can be formed  Research utilization o The use of study findings in a practical application unrelated to the original research  Difference between Quantitative & Qualitative Research o Quantitative  Subject, participant, respondent, concepts, constructs, variables, data (numeric), relationships.  Orderly procedures, pre-specified plan, Control over context, formal measurement, seeks generalization o Qualitative  Study participant, informant, phenomena, constructs, concepts, data (narrative) patters of association Dynamic design, holistic, context-bound, humans as instruments, seeks patter  Scientific Method o Involves using a setoff orderly procedures to gather info 1. Make observations 2. Propose hypothesis 3. Design and perform experiment to test hypothesis 4. Analyze data to accept or reject hypothesis 5. Propose and test new hypothesis  Theoretical & Conceptual Frameworks o Overall conceptual underpinnings of a study o Theoretical- based on theory o Conceptual- based on a conceptual model o Commonalities  Use concepts as building block  Require conceptual definitions of key con