Nursing Research: Importance, Hypothesis, Sampling, Ethics, and Scientific Method

Running Head: Nursing Research
Nursing Research
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Nursing Research
1. What is the highest priority for the importance of research in the nursing profession?
1. Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses’ decisions and actions
Evidence based practice provide a framework that update and enrich decision making
and actions of nurses.
2. What is the statement of the researcher’s expectations or predictions about relationships
among study variables?
2. Hypothesis
States deductively expectations of the researcher about relationships between
variables of study (Polit & Beck, 2010).
3. What is the purpose of an operational definition in a quantitative study?
Specify how a variable will be defined and measured
Provides a clear and concise articulation of the process required to determine
phenomena’s nature and properties.
4. What is the overall plan for answering the research question?
D. Research design
It is the architectural back bone of a study that address challenges undermining study
evidence (Wood & Kerr, 2011).
5. What is included in the methods section of a study?
C. Strategies used to address the problem
It presents the criteria used in obtaining the relevant information used to draw research
findings.
6. What type of hypothesis is represented by the statement “the fewer the social support an
elderly person has, the more likely the individual will be institutionalized”?
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A. Directional
One is able to predict the direction i.e. effect of one variable on the other.
7. What is beneficence?
B. Protection from physical and psychological harm and exploitation.
Requires the researcher to have the welfare of participants in mind; maximizing
benefit and minimizing harm.
8. The researcher wants to explore the extent to which quantitative findings can be applied
to other groups and settings. What is this called?
C. Transferability
Defines the ability to take experimental results and apply them elsewhere.
9. What is affected by the sampling plan for a research study?
Construct validity
Defines the degree to a test measures that which it claims as relates to sampling plan.
10. What type of sampling divides the population into homogenous strata from which
elements are selected randomly?
Stratified random sampling
The small groups are usually homogenous called strata.
11. What is justice?
A. Right to fair treatment
It advocates for fair selection of participants in research through ideal distribution of
benefits and risks.
12. What criteria do quantitative researchers use to assess the consistency of information
obtained in a study?
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