Purpose and Goals
Nurses engage in research primarily for this practice approach that improves patient outcomes using current evidence.
What is evidence-based practice?
are addressed by health care researchers who want to learn the benefits of specific actions, treatments, products or processes ex: “does a nurse-led smoking cessation program for young adults reduce smoking?”
therapy questions
This phase includes identifying the problem and reviewing literature.
What is the conceptual phase?
This refers to consistency and repeatability of measurements.
What is reliability?
This principle requires minimizing harm and maximizing benefits.
What is beneficence?
The ultimate goal of research includes answering questions and doing this to real-world issues.
What is solving problems?
concern the development and testing of formal instruments to scree, diagnose and assess patients to measure clinical outcomes ex: “is our Smoking Susceptibility Index valin and reliable measure of teenagers’ smoking propensity to initate smoking?”
diagnosis/assessment question
A researcher chooses a design and sampling method in this phase.
What is the design and planning phase?
This determines whether a tool measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
Keeping participant data private is known as this.
What is confidentiality?
A nurse studies whether a fall prevention program reduces patient falls. What is the purpose of this research?
What is to answer a clinical question and improve outcomes?
include patients pain, physical function, confusion, and levels of depression, also include prevalance, size, intensity ex: “ what percentage of high school students smoke more than one pack of cigarettes per week?”
Description questions
Collecting and preparing data occurs in this phase.
What is the empirical phase?
This reflects whether results are trustworthy and believable.
What is credibility?
This group must approve research before it begins.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
A nurse implements new wound care guidelines based on research findings. What concept is this demonstrating?
What is evidence-based practice?
strive to understand the outcomes associated with a disease or a health problem to estimate the probability they wil occur ex: “ is a diagnosis of smoking related lung cancer associated with increased risk of suicidal ideation?”
Prognosis questions
Analyzing and interpreting results happens here.
What is the analytic phase?
A scale gives the same result every time but measures the wrong concept.
What is high reliability but low validity?
Participants must understand risks and voluntarily agree to participate.
What is informed consent?
A hospital reviews research to reduce infection rates. What is the broader goal of this process?
What is improving patient care through research application?
offer evidence about what the health and illness mean to clients, what baarries they face to positive healyt Practices ex: “ what is it like for long-term smokers to attempt and fail at quitting?”
Meaning/Processess Questions
Publishing findings and applying them to practice occurs in this phase.
What is the dissemination phase?
A blood pressure cuff accurately measures BP and gives consistent readings.
What is high reliability and high validity?
A researcher ensures no identifying information is shared publicly.
What is confidentiality?