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Mooney Final
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Medical
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2007

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ANA
Definition
Definition of nursing that NDSU uses was formulated by _________
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Organizational strength
Definition
This mark of a profession is least developed in nursing
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The Nursing Practice
Definition

-Prevention of disease

-Promotion of health

-Comfort of dying

Aspects of what? 

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Person, nursing, environment, health
Definition
Metaparadigm of nursing (4)
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Environment
Definition

Cultural, legal, religious, and other phenomenon.

NDSU considers this part of ________. 

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Respect.
Definition

Acceptance of the diversity of mankind.

NDSU considers this an aspect of the core value of ______________. 

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NDSU's Mission Statement
Definition

-advance nursing knowledge

            -provide professional nursing education

            -serve as a resource for health care needs of society

Part of what? 

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NO
Definition

Patience.

Core value for of NDSU or not? 

Term
Seek the truth.
Definition
Main task of a scholar?
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Scholars
Definition
Who works hard to identify their biases?
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Persons and groups of persons
Definition
Focus of nursing care defined by NDSU.
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True
Definition
T/F Commitment to life long learning is important in nursing.
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False
Definition
T/F Faculty are responible for students' learning
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False
Definition
T/F Promotion and restoration of health is domain of medicine and not nursing
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WHO
Definition
NDSU adopted definition of health formulated by?
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True
Definition
T/F NDSU autonomy refers to nurses’ right to make decision about their professional practice and a patient’s right to make decisions about health
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True
Definition
T/F A profession has a specialized body of knowledge
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True
Definition
T/F  Members of profession perform some service needed by public
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False
Definition
T/F All professionals must have a license to practice
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True
Definition
T/F Autonomy is a characteristic of professional practice
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Directional
Definition

The incidence of ETOH violations among nursing students is lower than the incidence of ETOH violations among engineering students

What kind of hypothesis? 

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Non-directional
Definition

There is a relationship between self-efficacy and grades in college students

What kind of hypothesis? 

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Null
Definition

There is no statistically significant difference between the attitude of junior nursing students toward caring for the elderly and the attitude of senior nursing students toward caring for the elderly

What kind of hypothesis? 

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Independent
Definition

Persons with low SELF ESTEEM have a greater fear of public speaking than do persons with a high self-esteem

Dependent or Independent variable? 

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Dependent
Definition

Patients placed on circuloelectric bed will have a lower incidence of Decubitus ulcers

Dependent or Independent variable? 

Term
She uses information from theory and research in deciding how to care for her patients.
Definition
Nellie uses evidence-based nursing in her practice. What does this mean?
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Concepts
Definition
Building blocks of theory
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Independent
Definition
Variable manipulated by researcher?
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Grand
Definition
Most complex kind of nursing theory?
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Triangulation
Definition
Collecting related data through different research approaches
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Replication
Definition
duplication of research methods and variable used in a previous study
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Metaparadigm
Definition

Primary phenomena that are of interest to a particular discipline

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Problem statement
Definition
Foundation of research design
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False
Definition
T/F Doctor's orders are a descrete part of evidence based nursing practice
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Operational definition
Definition
Specifies the meaning of the variable in the study
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Intuitive, authoritative, scientific, aesthetic
Definition
Ways nurses know how to meet a patient's needs? (4)
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Conceptual model
Definition

Describes a loosely organized set of abstract and general concepts used to address a phenomenon of interest

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True
Definition
T/F Research findings are infrequently used in nursing practice
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True
Definition
T/F Control techniques are used to reduce the contaminating effects of extraneous variables
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Sample
Definition

The segment of a population included in a research study

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Purposive sampling
Definition
A sampling technique appropriate for qualitative research
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Systematic sampling
Definition

1)      Researcher Petunia compares self-esteem in nursing students at NDSU and UND.  She gets class lists from both schools.  She wants a sample of 40 students from each program.  She selects every 3rd student from each.  What type of sampling technique is this?

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convenience
Definition
example of non probability sampling
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Random Assignment
Definition

1)      Nurse Nellie is conduction a study of the effect of X.  Her sample consists of 78 patients admitted to the 4th floor of her hospital.  She provides X to every other patient admitted. What term is used for this manner of selecting who receives X (treatment group) and who doesn’t (control group).

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Valid
Definition

1)      An instrument measures what it is intended to measure

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Interval
Definition

Level of measurement?

Measuring temp 

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Ordinal
Definition

Level of meausurement?

Ranking test scores 

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Reliable
Definition

Reliable or not?

With a reliability coefficient of 0.75, the instrument

Term
internal consistency
Definition
Chronback’s alpha measures ________ ______ of an instrument
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Likert Scale
Definition

1)      Strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree

Kind of scale? 

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A questionairre
Definition
If a researcher wanted to find out what positions were held by nursing program alumni 10 years after graduation he would most likely use?
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Response set bias
Definition

a.      Responding negatively without thinking about accurate response

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Good response rate
Definition
What is not typical of questionairres?
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Students who get high grades in one get high grades in the other
Definition

1)      R=0.88 correlation coefficient between grades in 2 classes

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Generalizability
Definition
extent to which study results can be applied to other people, instruments and settings
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Interval and ratio
Definition
Parametric stats are used for what level of measurements (2)
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Visual analog scale
Definition

1)      Measuring intensity of pain

Use what scale? 

Term
Semantic differential scale
Definition

1)      Measuring beliefs about spirituality and healing

Use what scale? 

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Inter-rater reliability
Definition
If 5 researchers are measuring something, what would you worry most about?
Term
T-Test
Definition
What compares groups based on mean scores
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It is unlikely that the results are due to chance.
Definition
What does it mean to say there is a statistically significant difference between grades of students who study and those who don’t?
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There is a 1 in 100 chance I will be wrong if I reject the null hypothesis
Definition

1)      Researcher sets a confidence (p) level of 0.01

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Retrospective Study
Definition

1)      Researcher reviews old charts

 

Type of study? 

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meta-analysis
Definition

1)      Previous studies are studied in

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LESS
Definition
A quasi-experimental design involves more/less control than an experimental design
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More time consuming
Definition

1)      Disadvantage of qualitative as compared with quantitative

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generalizability
Definition
an aim of quantitative but not qualitative
Term
Randomization and use of comparison groups
Definition
_____ & ________are ways to strengthen control of the research design
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