EBP integrates these in order to improve practice outcomes
What are best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patients' values/beliefs?
Studies conducted to explore real life phenomena (quantitative)
What are descriptive studies?
The ability to make one's own decisions
What is autonomy (or self-determination)?
The entire set of subjects, objects, events, or elements of study
What is the population?
The level of measurement used in Likert scales
What is interval?
The goal of utilizing best practice guidelines in nursing practice
What is the provision of high-quality and cost-effective health care?
Describes the lived experience of a phenomenon
What is phenomenology?
The right to protection from discomfort or harm
What is beneficence?
Type of sampling where every subject has an equal chance of being chosen
What is probability sampling?
The difference between the true measure and what was actually measured
What is measurement error?
A challenge for implementing EBP in nursing practice
What is limited research available, lack of individual research, or lack or resources?
Explores relationships among variables, not cause and effect
What is correlational design?
The right to fair treatment
What is justice?
The researcher chooses participants thought to best represent the phenomenon of study
What is purposive sampling?
The three types of reliability
What is stability, equivalence, and internal consistency?
Where nurses may find EBP applications for clinical practice
What is guidelines, standards, protocols, or policies?
Must include random assignment and controlled manipulation of variables
What is experimental design?
The review categories from an Institutional Review Board (IRB)
What are exempt, expedited, and full?
The researcher chooses participants for the sample at total random and selects blindly
What is simple random sampling?
The two types of validity
What are construct and criterion-related?
A type of evidence needed to inform practice (there are 4)
What is descriptive, explanatory, predictive, or control?
The four measures of trustworthiness in qualitative research
What are confirmability, dependability, credibility, and transferability?
The four components of informed consent
What are disclose, comprehend, competence, and voluntary?
To determine the adequate size of the sample, these two criteria are used
What is power and effect size?
(power analysis)
The concepts of Measurement Theory include these (name 3)
What are directness of measurement, level of measurement, measurement error, reliability, and validity?