Module 1-research – Flashcards
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Immersion
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Reading and rereading the data
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Snowballing
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The sampling method where participants in a study recruit others
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Participant
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A person from whom data is collected in a study
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Ethnography
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Study of tradition and customs of people
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Bracketing
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Setting aside one's values when conducting a study
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Emic approach
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Studying behavior from within a culture
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Field notes
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Notes from a research observation
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Secondary source
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Account of a situation by a person who learned of the situation from another person
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Going native
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When a researcher becomes part of a culture and loses the ability to observe clearly
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Phenomenological approach
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A study focused on the lived experiences
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Qualitative research
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Subjective approach to a study that describes life's meaning
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Exploratory-descriptive
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A type of qualitative study that is developed to provide information and insight into clinical or practice problems
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Facilitator
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Conducts a focus group
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Phenomena
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Experiences that comprise the lives of humans
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Grounded theory
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Qualitative method that describes social processes
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Coding
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Labeling the data;
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Sample
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Subset of the population selected for the study
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Problem
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Gap in nursing knowledge
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Limitations
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Restrictions in a study that may decrease the generalizability of a study
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Setting
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Location of a study
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Data
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Information collected in a study
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Assumptions
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Statements that are considered truth
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Literature
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The review of literature documents why a study needs to be done
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Pilot
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A smaller version of the proposed study to refine the methodology or data collection to be used in the larger study
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Outcomes
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Research findings
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Control
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Rules imposed to decrease the chance of error
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Descriptives
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Research that involves the exploration and description of real-life situations
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Correlational
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A type of quantitative research involving relationships between or among variables
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Purpose
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Identifies the goal or purpose of the study
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Quantitative
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Type of nursing research for generating numerical information about the world
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Design
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Study blueprint; plan to maximize the control over factors in a study
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Basic
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Type of research that seeks knowledge for knowledge's sake
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Measurement
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Assigning numbers to variables
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Generalization
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Extension of the application of the findings from the sample to a larger population
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Bias
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Deviation from the true or expected
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Conceptual
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Theoretical meaning of a concept or variable
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Extraneous
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A type of variable that can interfere with the outcome of a study
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Variable
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Concepts in a study that are measured or manipulated
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Framework
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The theoretical basis of a study that may be expressed as a map or model (picture) or in narrative form and includes relational statements
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Report
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Summarizes the findings of a study
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