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F/A Ch.2
Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| confidentiality | any information a subject relates willl 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 |
| depedent 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 |
| evidence-based practice (EBP) | the use of some form of substantiation in making clinical decisions |
| 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 witholding 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 the generation of categories or hypotheses that explain pattersn of behavior of people in the study |
| hypothesis | a prediction of the relationship among two or more variables |
| independent variable | the presumed cause or influence on the dependent variable |
| in-service education | education that is designed to upgrade the knowledge or ksills of employees |
| mean | average; commonly symbolized by x or m |
| measures of central tendancy | includes the mean, median, and the mode |
| median | the middle |
| mode | most frequent |
| operational definitions | definitions that specify the unstruments or procedures by which concepts will be measured |
| phenomenology | research that investigates peoples life experiences and how they interpret those experiences |
| population | includes all possible members of a group who meet the criteria for the study |
| range | difference between the highest and lowest values of a set of data |
| 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 data will actually be collected |
| significance | the potential to contribute to nursing science by enhancing client care, testing or generatin a theory, or resonving a day to day clinical problem |
| standard deviation | the most frequently used measure of variablility, indicating the average to which scores deviate from the mean commonly symbolized as SD or S |
| statistically significant | term applied after data have been analyzed to determine whether the results had a probability less that 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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