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| systematic inquiry to develop evidence on problems of importance to nurses |
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| A practice that involves making clinical decisions on the best available evidence, with an emphasis on evidence from disciplined research |
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| since the 1980's, the focus has been on _________ _________ _______ |
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| clinical nursing research |
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| The _____________ affirms the stature of nursing research in the united states |
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| national institute of nursing research |
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| A rigorous and systematic synthesis of research findings on a research question |
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| A ranked arrangement of the validity and dependability of evidence of causality based on the rigor of the method that produced it |
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| the process of developing specific predictions from general principles |
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| the process of reasoning from specific observations to more general rules |
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| a way of looking at natural phenomena that encompasses a set of philosophical assumptions and that guides one's approach to inquiry |
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| a principle that is accepted as being true based on logic or reason, without proof |
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| the paradigm underlying the traditional scientific approach which assumes that there is an orderly reality that can be objectively studied; often associated with quantitative research |
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| the belief that phenomena are not haphazard or random, but rather have antecedent causes; an assumption in the positivist paradigm |
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| a paradigm that holds that there are multiple interpretations of reality, and that the goal of research is to understand how individuals construct reality within their context; often associated with qualitative research |
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| the collection and analysis of numeric information typically concerned with the traditional scientific method |
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| evidence rooted in objective reality and gathered using one's senses as the basis for generating knowledge |
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| the degree to which the research methods justify the inference that the findings are true for a broader group than study participants |
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| research that focuses on discovering solutions to immediate problems |
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