Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice

What it covers

• What research is, its purposes and history
• Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods
• The five phases and ten steps
• The problem, the literature, the framework
• Conceptual and operational definitions
• Variables and hypotheses
• Population and sample
• True, quasi- and pre-experimental designs
• Descriptive, correlational, case-control and cohort studies
• Clinical trial phases
• Phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, historical research
• Saturation, bracketing, trustworthiness
• Sampling and Slovin's formula
• Bias
• Data collection
• Levels of measurement
• Validity and reliability
• Descriptive and inferential statistics
• p-values, Type I and II errors, correlation, choosing the test
• Nuremberg, Helsinki, Belmont
• Informed consent, assent and the Philippine age rule
• Vulnerable groups
• PHREB, RA 10532 and ethics review
• Misconduct
• Evidence-based practice and its seven steps
• Levels of evidence
• Systematic review and meta-analysis
• Research utilization
• Writing and dissemination
• Read the stem, name the answer