Quantitative
Qualitative
Dissemination and Interpretation
Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Odds and Ends
100

Race and ethnicity are examples of this type of data.

What is nominal data?

100

Interviews, documents, photographs, and artifacts are used in this type of research.

What is historical?

100

Presenting a podium presentation at a conference.

What is dissemination?

100

The (C) in PICOT

What is Comparison? Or the control group?

100

An example of this type of source is an article titled: A Narrative Review- Alarm Fatigue in Intensive Care

What is a secondary source?

200
Research is at risk for this when the study participants for a pain study self select which group they want to be in. For example one participant likes yoga and decides to be in the yoga intervention group while another participant doesn't like mind-body medicine and choses to be in the control group where they receive standard medication pain management.

What is Selection Bias?

200

Method a researcher would use to investigate the nursing processes involved in teaching patients diabetes management.

What is grounded theory?

200

A researcher who exhibits critical thinking when interpreting their research findings.

What is a characteristic of an innovator? Or Who is an innovator?

200

A nurse appraises this value in an article and determines the findings are statistically significant.

What is the p value?

200

Type of sampling method where researchers sample individuals who are easily accessible.

What is convenience sampling?
300

You minimize this type of error by decreasing the level of significance (e.g., p value).

What is a Type I error?

300

When no new themes are emerging.

What is data saturation?

300

The 3 Ps of dissemination.

What are publications, presentations and posters?

300

Number of existing cases of chicken pox in central Texas.

What is prevalence?

300

The hypothesis that coffee drinkers have more heart disease than non-coffee drinkers may be influenced by another factor.

What is a confounding variable?

400

This measure of reliability is demonstrated when a rapid test for strep reports a positive result, when the patient is infected.

What is sensitivity?

400

A qualitative researcher uses member checking and data triangulation to demonstrate the truthfulness of the data.

What is credibility?

400

Range established around means that estimate the probability of being correct. 

What is the Confidence Interval?

400

An academic hospital compares their patient outcomes to a similar academic hospital's outcomes.

What is benchmarking?

400

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?

500

The nurse researcher selects this statistical test to compare the mean cardiac diet knowledge scores between three groups of individuals: high risk, intermediate risk, and low risk for myocardial infarction (MI).

What is an analysis of variance (ANOVA)?

500

The process is described in sufficient detail that another researcher may repeat the work.

What is dependability?

500
The best measure of central tendency to use when looking at cholesterol data and one participant's cholesterol is severely elevated (outlier) and is skewing the data.

What is the median?

500

The statistic commonly used by researchers to test the internal consistency reliability of an instrument (i.e., items on a depression scale are consistently all measuring depression).

What is Cronbach's alpha?

500

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?

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