Quantitative
Race and ethnicity are examples of this type of data.
What is nominal data?
Interviews, documents, photographs, and artifacts are used in this type of research.
What is historical?
Presenting a podium presentation at a conference.
What is dissemination?
The (C) in PICOT
What is Comparison? Or the control group?
An example of this type of source is an article titled: A Narrative Review- Alarm Fatigue in Intensive Care
What is a secondary source?
Limited generalizability is an example of this type of validity.
What is external validity?
Method a researcher would use to investigate the nursing processes involved in teaching patients diabetes management.
What is grounded theory?
A researcher who exhibits critical thinking when interpreting their research findings.
What is a characteristic of an innovator? Or Who is an innovator?
A nurse appraises this value in an article and determines the findings are statistically significant.
What is the p value?
Type of sampling method where researchers sample individuals who are easily accessible.
You minimize this type of error by decreasing the level of significance (e.g., p value).
What is a Type I error?
When no new themes are emerging.
What is data saturation?
The 3 Ps of dissemination.
What are publications, presentations and posters?
What the NNT abbreviation means.
What is the Number Needed to Treat?
The hypothesis that coffee drinkers have more heart disease than non-coffee drinkers may be influenced by another factor.
What is a confounding variable?
This measure of reliability is demonstrated when a rapid test for strep reports a positive result, when the patient is infected.
What is sensitivity?
A qualitative researcher uses member checking and data triangulation to demonstrate the truthfulness of the data.
What is credibility?
A change agent
What is a characteristic of an innovator?
An academic hospital compares their patient outcomes to a similar academic hospital's outcomes.
What is benchmarking?
The type of outcome a nurse manager is evaluating when auditing the call light log to determine if hourly rounding is occurring.
What is a performance-related outcome?
A statistical test a researcher uses to look for an association between smoking behavior (nonsmoker, current smoker, or past smoker) and drinking behavior (nondrinker, current drinker, or past drinker)
What is a chi-square test?
The process is described in sufficient detail that another researcher may repeat the work.
What is dependability?
What is a sense of inquiry?
The statistic that tells how well an instrument is actually measuring what you want it to measure.
What is Cronbach's alpha?
Risk of cancer in the radiation fallout group versus the risk of the cancer in the group outside the radiation fallout zone.
What is relative risk?