EBP/RESEARCH
Data collection tools.
What are instruments?
The method of formulating a research question.
What is the acronym PICOT.
This British epidemiologist criticized health professionals' lack of evaluation of their treatment methods.
Who is Archie Cochrane?
Major barrier to Evidence Based Practice.
What is resistance to change?
Someone who is an integral part of the process and may be the end user of the process or anyone who may be affected by the process.
What are stakeholders?
Responsible for setting the standards of professional performance required by nurses to use research findings in practice.
Who is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
The nurse must first address this for research and examination whether the results are reasonable on the basis of how the study was conducted.
What is internal validity?
Who is responsible for implementing EBP?
What is Everyone (nurses, hospitals)?
Nurses often state this is a barrier to completing an Evidence Based Practice Project.
What is lack of time?
Literature that provides a comprehensive, unbiased analysis through the use of a strict scientific design to select and assess each study Examples are the Cochrane Collaboration and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE).
What are systematic reviews?
Critical analysis of current information on the subject that will be studied in the research.
What is literature review?
Provides a different level of assurance about the validity of the information provided.
What is levels of evidence?
Based on a constructivist philosophy which assumes that reality is composed of multiple socially constructed realities of each person or group and is therefore value laden, focusing on personal beliefs, thoughts, and feelings.
What is qualitative research?
Nurses working in hospitals with ______ designation, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing, were more likely to report the adoption of evidence-based care at their institutions.
What is Magnet?
The writing style used for evidence-based practice and research.
What is APA? The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition?
Explores the reactions of a specific group of people who experienced a similar event in their lives.
What is phenomenological research?
The findings need to be reported in terms of significance. The size and precision of the treatment effect needs to be assessed to determine the significance of the results.
What is result analysis?
Examines a casual relationship between variables, but it may not meet the strict guidelines of experimental research. Some research of the effects of nursing interventions on patient outcomes may fall into this category.
What is quasi-experimental research?
Lack of research skill, negative attitudes, lack of admin support, and time constraints.
What are Barriers to EBP?
The six steps for conducting EBP.
What is assessing the need for change; locating the best evidence; critically analyzing the evidence; designing practice change; implementing and evaluating change in practice; and integrating and maintaining change in practice.
This must be collected in an orderly and systematic manner and must be recorded before analysis and decision making begins.
What is data/data collection?
A measure of whether a study can be applied to any other setting.
What is external validity?
Usually produces data in the form of numbers and is based on a post positivist philosophy which assumes that reality is objective, fixed, stable, observable, measurable, and value free.
What is quantitative research?
A way to overcome barriers to EBP.
What is keeping an open mind and making a professional commitment?
Must approve the research and procedure for data collection from human subjects.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?