Parts of a Study
This group of people receives no treatment, a placebo, or a treatment with already known side effects.
Control
The mission is to produce evidence to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Usually conducted with large numbers of subjects or study participants, in natural settings, with no manipulation of the situation.
Descriptive Research
Involves the appropriation and use of knowledge from other fields or disciplines to guide nursing practice.
Borrowing
Does it measure what it is supposed to measure? What term is this?
Validity
This is used as a description and helps explain. Helps to clarify the relationship between phenomena and helps identify the causes.
Explanation
Implemented the Magnet Hospital Designation Program for Excellence in Nursing Services. A hospital’s designation of Magnet status ensures that the nurses are involved in research activities and the delivery of evidence-based care to patients. The emphasis on EBP encouraged nurses to conduct more randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies to test the effectiveness of nursing interventions.
Involves measuring two variables and assessing the relationship between them, with no manipulation. Ex- Observational studies, surveys.
Correlational
Include “truths” or beliefs based on customs and trends. Can be good and bad, such as the belief that “nurses eat their young.” "It is always done this way."
Tradition
Consistency of Tool
Reliability
An estimated guess of probable outcomes.
Prediction
Implemented to improve prelicensure nurses’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. Competencies were developed in six areas essential for students and registered nurses’ (RNs) practice: patient-centered care, teamwork, and collaboration, EBP, quality improvement (QI), safety, and informatics.
The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Involves the manipulation of an independent variable without the random assignment of participants to conditions or orders of conditions. Among the important types are nonequivalent group designs, pretest-posttest, and interrupted time-series designs. Assignment is not random.
A person with expertise and power who can influence opinion and behavior. It is thought that she or he knows more in each area than others. Knowledge acquired this way is illustrated when one person credits another as the source of information.
Authority
Includes scientific investigations conducted for the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake or for the pleasure of learning and finding truth.
Basic Research
Characteristics of the research. What it is about.
Description
Promotes and improves the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations. The Institute supports and conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the lifespan to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevent disease and disability, manage, and eliminate symptoms caused by illness, and improve palliative and end-of-life care.
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Three main characteristics: (1) controlled manipulation of at least one treatment variable (independent variable); (2) exposure of some of the study participants to the treatment (experimental group) and no exposure of the remaining participants (control group); and (3) random assignment of participants to the control or experimental group. The degree of control achieved in experimental studies varies according to the population studied, the variables examined, and the environment of the study. Randomly selecting participants and conducting the study in a laboratory or research facility strengthen the control in a study.
Experimental Research
Involves gaining knowledge by being personally involved in an event, situation, or circumstance.
Personal Experience
Attempts to solve real problems in clinical practice
Applied Research
Smaller version of a larger study
What does NINR stand for?
National Institute of Nursing Research
The focus is on the patients/families, providers, healthcare systems, practice changes, and policy development.
Outcomes Research
Blueprint of a scientific study. It includes research methodologies, tools, and techniques to conduct the research. It helps to identify and address the problem that may rise during the process of research and analysis.
Research Design
The role of a new BSN graduate in research
Appraising studies and implementing evidence-based guidelines and protocols.