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Nursing research, the Glossary

Nursing research is research that provides evidence used to support nursing practices.^[1]

30 relations: Action research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Case study, England, Ethnography, Evidence, Evidence-based medicine, Florence Nightingale, Focus group, Grounded theory, Health care, Interview, List of nursing journals, Logical positivism, Nurse education, Nursing, Nursing Interventions Classification, Nursing theory, Paradigm, Phenomenology (psychology), Qualitative research, Quantitative research, Randomized controlled trial, Reasonable person, Research, Statistics, United Kingdom, University, Value (ethics and social sciences), Wales.
Health research

Action research

Action research is a philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; pronounced "ark" by initiates and often "A-H-R-Q" by the public) is one of twelve agencies within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Case study

A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Evidence

Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition.

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Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.

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Focus group

A focus group is a group interview involving a small number (sometimes up to ten) of demographically predefined participants.

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Grounded theory

Grounded theory is a systematic methodology that has been largely applied to qualitative research conducted by social scientists.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Interview

An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.

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List of nursing journals

This is a list of notable academic journals about nursing.

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Logical positivism

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion of meaning).

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Nurse education

Nurse education consists of the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals.

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Nursing

Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".

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Nursing Interventions Classification

The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) is a care classification system which describes the activities that nurses perform as a part of the planning phase of the nursing process associated with the creation of a nursing care plan.

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Nursing theory

Nursing theory is defined as "a creative and conscientious structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena".

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Paradigm

In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.

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Phenomenology (psychology)

Phenomenology or phenomenological psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology, is the scientific study of subjective experiences.

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Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.

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Quantitative research

Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data.

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Randomized controlled trial

A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial; RCT) is a form of scientific experiment used to control factors not under direct experimental control.

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Reasonable person

In law, a reasonable person, reasonable man, or the man on the Clapham omnibus, is a hypothetical person whose character and care conduct, under any common set of facts, is decided through reasoning of good practice or policy.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Statistics

Statistics (from German: Statistik, "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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Value (ethics and social sciences)

In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_research