| Question |
Answer |
| The term used to describe the process that nurses used to make clinical decisions and to answer clinical questions. |
Evidenced-based nursing |
| A summary or condenced version of a research report. |
Abstract |
| Those factors in a study that are used to explain or predict the outcome of interest |
Independent variable (IV) |
| The outcome variable of interest |
Dependent variable (DV) |
| An example of a seconadry source |
Systematic review |
| Use of sources of information as they were originally written or communicated |
Primary sources |
| A numerical statement of the percentage of the time the results reported would have happened by chance alone. |
p value |
| The entire group of individuals about whom we are interested in gaining knowledge |
Population |
| A subset of the total group of interest in a research study |
Sample |
| In qualitative research, it is the point at which all new information collected is redundant of information already collected |
Data saturation |
| A prediction regarding the relationships or effects of selected factors on other factors |
Hypothesis |
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