Kozier Chapter 2 Nursing Education, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Confidentiality | any information a subject relates will not be made public or available to others without the subject's consent |
| Continuing education (CE) | formalized experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners |
| Dependent variable | the behavior, characteristic, or outcome that the researcher wishes to explain or predict |
| Descriptive statistics | procedures that summarize large volumes of data; used to describe and synthesize data, showing patterns and trends |
| Empirical data | information collected from the observable world |
| Ethnography | research that provides a framework to focus on the culture of a group of people |
| Feasibility | the availability of time as well as the material and human resources needed to investigate a research problem or question |
| Full disclosure | a basic right, which means that deception, either by withholding information about a client's participation in a study or by giving the client false or misleading information about what participating in the study will involve, must not occur |
| Grounded theory | research to understand social structures and social processes; this method focuses on generation of categories or hypotheses that explain patterns of behavior of people in the study |
| Independent variable | the presumed cause or influence on the dependent variable |
| In-service education | education that is designed to upgrade the knowledge or skills of employees |
| Mean | a measure of central tendency, computed by summing all scores and dividing by the number of subjects; commonly symbolized as X or M |
| Measures of central tendency | measures that describe the center of a distribution of data, denoting where most of the subjects lie; include the mean, median, and mode |
| Measures of variability | measures that indicate the degree of dispersion or spread of the data; include range, variance, and standard deviation |
| Median | a measure of central tendency, representing the exact middle score or value in a distribution of scores; the median is the value above and below which 50% of the scores lie |
| Mode | the score or value that occurs most frequently in a distribution of scores |
| Operational definitions | definitions that specify the instruments or procedures by which concepts will be measured |
| Phenomenology | research that investigates people's life experiences and who they interpret those experiences |
| Population | includes all possible members of the group who meet the criteria for the study |
| Range | a measure of variability, consisting of the difference between the highest and lowest values in a distribution of scores |
| Reliability | the degree to which an instrument produces consistent results on repeated use |
| Researchability | the problem can be subjected to scientific investigation |
| Right of self-determination | subjects feel free from constraints, coercion, or any undue influence to participate in a study |
| Risk of harm | exposure to the possibility of injury going beyond everyday situations |
| Sample | segment of the population from whom the data will actually be collected |
| Significance | the potential to contribute to nursing science by enhancing client care, testing or generating a theory, or resolving a day-to-day clinical problem |
| Standard deviation | the most frequently used measure of variability, indicating the average to which scores deviate from the mean; commonly symbolized as SD or S |
| Statistically significant | after data has been analyzed to determine whether the results were a probability less than 0.05, which is considered the acceptable level of significance |
| Validity | the degree to which an instrument measures what it is intended to measure |
| Variance | a variation or deviation from a critical pathway; goals not met or interventions not performed according to the time frame |
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