Intro Nursing Ch 2

• 1. CNA - certified nursing assistant
• 2. LPN - Licensed practice nurse
• 3. Diploma nurse - not common anymore combo of LPN & AND
• 4. ADN - Associate Degree Nurse
• 5. Baccalaureate degree - leadership, teaching
• 6. Master's degree - specialization - midwife, practictioner, anestitst
• 7. Doctoral degree
• 8. Continuing education
• 9. In-service education - at workplace - procedures

• -a systematic, objective process of analyzing phenomena of importance in nursing
• -encompasses all clinical practice arenas, nursing education, and nursing administration

• -associate degree and diploma in nursing
• -baccalaureate degree in nursing
• -masters degree in nursing
• -doctorate degree in nursing or related field

• -trial and error plus common sense
• -authority and tradition
• -intuition and inspiration
• -logical reasoning - check everything - is it logical?

• -a process
• -the researcher uses senses
• -systematic data collection
• -data are observable, verifiable
• -purpose: to describe, explain, or predict events

• -involves measurable data
• - viewed as "hard" science
• - uses deductive reasoning and measurable attributes of human experince

• -involves gathering thoughts & feelings from patient
• -narritive & subjective
• -understanding the human experience as it is lived

• 1. right not to be harmed
• 2. right to full disclosure
• 3. right to self-determination
• 4.can choose to stop participation
• 5. rights to privacy and confidentiality - don't disclose personal information
• Institutional review board - must be reviewed to protect participants

• 1. Experience
• 2. Social issues
• 3. Theories
• 4. Ideas from others
• 5. Nursing literature

• What is the book, journal, or article about as a whole?
• What is being said in detail, and how?
• Is the book, journal, or article "true" in whole or part?

the reason for conducting research is to establish evidence-based practice

the use of some form of substantiation in maing clinical decisions - evidence can come from tradidion, authoirty, experience, trial and error, logic an reason, and research.

behavior, characteristic, or outcome that the researcher whiched to explain or predict

the presumed cause of or influence on the dependent variable

prediction of the relationship among two or more variables

information collected from the observable world

degree to which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure

the degree of consistency with which an instrument measures a concept or variable