Evidence Based Practice
A type of practice that serves as the basis for quality, safe care at a reasonable cost.
What is Evidence-based practice?
The P in PICO
What is patient or population of interest?
A systemic investigation of phenomena related to improving patient care.
What is Nursing Research?
A researcher's expectations about the outcomes of a study.
What is the hypothesis?
A design that counts or measures in order to answer a research question.
What is quantitative research?
The British epidemiologist who is recognized for developing evidence-based practice.
Who is Archie Cochrane?
Basis of the decision that collected data is sufficient for a qualitative design.
What is the saturation of data or when the themes are duplicated?
The type of hypothesis in a research study that implies no relationship between variables.
What is the statistical or null hypothesis?
Studies phenomena with the understanding that multiple realities are possible based on meanings created by individuals or groups.
What is qualitative research?
Three of the ideas on which evidence-based practice is founded.
What are research, patient preferences, and clinical experience or expertise?
A source of knowledge derived from another person perceived as an expert.
What is authority?
Describes what is already known about the research topic related to the research proposal.
What is the background?
The section of a research article that describes the study design.
What is methodology?
Creating a focused question based on the identified research problems.
What is a Research Question?
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, developed to direct nursing research.
What are nursing theories or theoretical frameworks or conceptual models?
An interpretative, organized, and written presentation of credible information that the study's author has already read.
What is a literature review?
Two processes that are comparable to nursing research.
What are problem-solving and the nursing process?
Research designs that collect data on human experiences and measurable (numerical) variables. When answering they should be in order
What are qualitative research and quantitative research?
The nurse who made statistics for the death rate of the Crimean War soldiers.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
A useful (website) source for nurses seeking to guide patients in making decisions regarding prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses.
What is the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)?
Studies that are older than 5 years but relevant and credible sources for a study.
What are landmark or groundbreaking studies?
An emphasis of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Hospital Designation Program for Excellence in Nursing.
What is utilizing evidence-based practice?