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| a word that describes an idea, observation, experience "pain" "anesthesia" |
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| humans, environment, health |
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| the way we come to know, the branch of philosophy hat studies knowledge |
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| john locke, the only source of knowledge that comes through our senses and experiences |
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| deductive reasoning, constructs or evaluates deductive arguments, deductive arguments are said to be valid or invalid not true or false |
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| involves moving from a set of specific facts to a general conclusion, a form of theory building in which specific facts are uses, creats a theory that explains relationships between the facts and allows prediction of future knowledge |
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| scientific method--rejected theoretical speculation as a means of obtaining knowledge, systematic observation and the acculmulation of evidence, objecive fact within a deductive framework, thus moving from a general statement to more specific |
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| structures, identifies new problems |
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| develops solutions to a problem |
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| tests the feasibility of solution using experimentl evidence |
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| collection of data that doesnt yet exist |
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| summary, collation and or synthesis of existing research |
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| understanding of human behavior and the reasons that goven such behavior |
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| systematic empirical investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships |
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| statistical analysis, uses math equations to interpret data |
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| lowest scale, no comparison, lacks numerical order, magnitude or size (race) |
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| order rank, no magnitude or size, transplant recipient list |
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| order with equal units of measurements-- lacks an absolute zero (fahrenheit scale) |
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| interval scale with true zero- example-- weight |
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| independent variable type |
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| cause, manipulated, measures, predicted, X |
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| effect, consequence, outcome, predicted from, criterion, Y |
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| tool, describe, summarize, reduce, manage lg data set, numerical or graphic |
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| data collection, 2 or more variables, ? relaitionship exists, change in one causes change in other |
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| measures with limited values |
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| establish a chosen group-- not able to generalize |
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| eastablished likelihood, can be generalized to a larger group |
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| 1 nominal independent and 1 nominal dependent |
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independent - 1 nominal 2 groups
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independent- 1 nominal > 2 groups
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independent- 2 nominal
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| develops a detailed descriptive image of the question |
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| classification and conceptualization of an idea |
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| determines merits of best practice |
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| used when the dependent variable is scaled nominally to determine if an association between variables |
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| used from one nominal variable for two groups |
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| used for one nominal variable with more than two groups |
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| larger quantitative trails |
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| most nursing research is _____ research |
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| research to gain knowledge for knowledge sake- how did the universe begin |
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patient population
intervention of interest
comparison intervention or status
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| scope and standards taskforce |
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| anesthesia machine checkout, BIS monitors |
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| perioperative safety taskforce |
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| stress, fatigue, noise, cell phone/ texting |
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| infection control taskforce |
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| wiping off surfaces, uniforms, full barriers for epidurals |
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| author originated the idea, authors conducted the research, the theorist |
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| summarizes or quotes primary, interpretation of paraphrasing, used only when primary is not avaiable |
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| reduces the number of citations |
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| ? for a single character withn the word |
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| * for truncation or varient spellings |
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| "XX" for searching for phrases |
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| define relationships between words or groups of words |
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| contains all the words it separates |
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| contains any of the words it separates |
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| excludes the word following "not" |
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| used to combine boolean phrases to show order of relationship |
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