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Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice: Vocabulary
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- 1applied researchresearch designed to directly influence or improve clinical practice
- 2basic researchresearch designed to generate and refine theory; the findings are often not directly useful in practice
- 3inductive reasoningcognitive process in which one identifies a specific idea or action and then makes conclusions about general ideas
- 4quantitative researchinvolves the concepts of base and applied research (variable, dependent variable, independent variable, hypothesis, data, instruments)
- 5qualitative researchconducted to gain insight by discovering meanings; differs from quantitative in that it analyzes words or narratives rather than numbers (phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, historical)
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- Unit I: Foundations of Nursing Practice Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
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