NUR100 first test crossword

A method of research involving variables, hypothesis, data (expressed in numbers) and instruments (i.e. scales, measurements)

Quantitative

This type of knowledge comes from an expert and is accepted as truth (i.e. a senior nurse teaching a new graduate nurse)

Authoritative

A problem-solving approach to making clinical decision using the best practice available which is collected from research, standards and guidelines is called ___________-based practice.

evidence

Systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups is called Quality _________________.

improvement

A type of consent: The patient's right to consent knowledgeably to participate in a study without coercion or to refuse to participate without jeopardizing the care he/she will receive

informed

Serves the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices

nursing theory

Four concepts common in nursing theory that influence and determine nursing practice are the __________, environment, health and nursing.

patient

A method of research conducted to gain insight by discovering meanings. The researcher primarily analyzes words or narratives rather than numbers

qualitative

This type of knowledge is obtained through testing the ideas and measuring systematically using objective criteria

scientific

A group of concepts that describe a pattern of reality

theory

The steps of EBP include asking a clinical questions in a __________ format (Population or Patient or Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome and Time).

PICOT

This type of knowledge is that part of nursing practice passed down from generation to generation, "we have always done it this way."

Traditional

Abstract impressions organized into symbols of reality. These are like ideas describing objects, properties, events and relationships among them.

concepts