Research problems, questions, and hypotheses
Finding and reviewing research evidence
Theoretical and conceptual frameworks
Quantitative Research design
Sampling and Data collection
100

"What is the lived experience of personal meaning of hereditary breast cancer risk and surveillance" is a research question you would see in this type of study.

What is qualitative

100

an experimental study published in a research journal would be considered this type of source for a research literature review

What is primary

100

Central concepts in conceptual models include

What is human beings, health and environment

100

In a quantitative study you must have control over this to have rigorous research

What is confounding variables

100

Selection of subset of a population to represent the entire population is known as this

What is sampling

200

The major source of ideas for research problems.

What is theories, personal nursing experience, and nursing literature.

200

The most important information that should be included in a literature review

What is findings from prior studies

200

The generalization of the relationship between phenomena is known as this

What is theory

200

Research that includes studies that summarize the status of phenomena and examine relationships among variables are known as this type of study

What is descriptive correlational

200

Strata are incorporated into the design of this sampling approach

What is quota

300

This type of hypothesis predicts the direction of a relationship.

What is directional

300

In a literature review this screening process would be best in identifying the most useful articles

What is reviewing the abstracts

300

The overall objectives of the use of theories in research

What is to provide a mechanism for deducing hypotheses, to stimulate new research, to explain relationships among phenomena

300

A one-group pretest-postest design is an example of this type of design

What is quasi-experimental design

300

The advantages of using biophysiologic measures in nursing studies.

What is They are accurate and precise, they are objective, and they are cost effective

400

a statement of purpose that indicates that the goal of a study is to understand the lived experience of a population would be this type of research design

What is phenomenological

400

An important characteristic of a high quality literature review

What is reproducible, with justifiable decision rules

400

Concepts that form conceptual models of nursing:

What is health promotion, unified whole, adaptation

400

In this type of study researchers begin with a possible cause and then subsequently collect data about outcomes.

What is prospective study

400

This scale is used to measure subjective experiences (i.e. pain, fatigue) along a 100mm line designating a bipolar continuum

What is visual analog scale

500

A type of statement if used in a hypothesis is not testable by empirical means.

What is meaning of

500

When conducting a subject search in a data base what you would most likely type in the search box?

What is topic or keyword

500

Theories that are more restricted in their generality and explain a smaller focus of human experience

What is middle range theories

500

Using a diverse sample of study participants in multiple sites would affect this in the study

What is external validity

500

An advantage of biophysiologic measures

What is that patients cannot distort the measurements and have objective measures