Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

American Pain Society, 318
American Psychological Association (APA), style,
reference lists, guidelines for, 21
amodal data, defined, 337
ANA. See American Nurses Association
analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), 367
analysis of variance (ANOVA), 364t, 365–367, 372f
analytic epidemiology, 194
analytic study designs, 208
case-control studies, 209–210
cohort studies, 210–212
intervention studies, 212
ANCOVA. See analysis of covariance
Annual Review of Nursing Research, 27
anonymity
qualitative research, ethical issue in, 397t
samples, ethics of, 303
ANOVA. See analysis of variance
anxiety, defined, 104
APNs. See advanced practice nurses
Applied Nursing Research, 27
applied research, defined, 16
Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation
instrument (AGREE II), 415, 416t
Arizona State University at Tempe, 51t
artifacts, in qualitative research, 226
assent, ethics of, 305
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal
Nurses (AWHONN)
nursing practice guidelines, 318
nursing research and EBP, 52
associative hypotheses vs. causal hypotheses, 79, 79f
associative relationships
complex hypothesis, 79
defined, 79
directional hypotheses, 80
hypotheses, 79, 79f
research question, example for, 81f
attrition rate
internal validity, 157
sample size, determining, 300
audit trail, in qualitative research, 229, 231
auditability, defined, 393
authority, for evidence, 7
authorship of papers, 502
autonomous, defined, 57
awareness, as characteristic of innovators, 451–452
AWHONN. See Association of Women’s Health,
Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
axial coding, defined, 381

B

barriers

connecting research and practice to nurses’ belief

systems related to practice, 434–435

organizational culture, 431–432

overcoming, 10–14, 11t–12t

research-related barriers, 434–435

defined, 7, 431

basic research, defined, 16

behavioral inventory for professionalism, 461

Belmont Report

bench research, defined, 57–58

beneficence, 57

ethical guidelines for research, 57

justice, 58–59

respect for persons, 57–58

benchmarking, for mandated reports, 477

beneficence, defined, 58

benefits, as ethical issue in qualitative research, 397t

Benner, Patricia, 27, 138, 232–233, 458

between-groups design, 154–155

bias

quantitative design, 152–153

sampling, 289, 294–295, 357

selection bias, 156, 156t

bimodal data, 337–338

bivariate analysis, 332, 333

Boolean operators for electronic databases, 113–114

bracketing of data, 227

Brown Report, 25

budget for quantitative data collection, 254

business cards, 494, 501

C

call for abstracts, definition of, 492, 493

call number, 105

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

(CTFPHC), 410

canonical correlation, 364t

CAQDAS. See Computer Assisted Qualitative Data

Analysis Software

care-related outcomes, described, 472

career development, 460

Careful Nursing Philosophy, 243

case control studies, 209–210

evidence in quantitative studies, appraising, 407–408

retrospective design, 162

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