These study questions highlight major content areas of Unit I. Please answer each question. For questions you CANNOT answer or for which you are NOT SURE, create a new thread in the online discussion and receive feedback from your peers and instructor. Remember that if you are unsure how to answer any of the following questions, then your peers may be unsure as well. Also, you may be instructed to address specific questions in the threaded discussion group. However, you are NOT to answer each question and e-mail it to the course professor.
- What are the differences between inductive and deductive reasoning?
- What is the relationship among philosophy, research, theory, and practice?
- Compare and contrast basic to applied research; quantitative to qualitative research.
- List the steps of the quantitative research process and describe methods that would enhance the rigor and control in each of those steps of the research process.
- Name historical events that affected the conduct of nursing research. How was Florence Nightingale's work related to nursing research?
- Compare and contrast problem solving, nursing process, and research process.
- Compare and contrast phenomena, concepts, and constructs.
- Distinguish between conceptual and operational definitions of variables.
- Distinguish between independent and dependent variables.
- What is research utilization? Why is it important to professional nursing practice?
- How do research utilization and evidence-based nursing fit together?
- Describe factors that facilitators and factors that are barriers to research utilization.