STUDY GUIDE FOR NURSING STUDENTS

Course Name: Nursing Research I

Pre-requisite Subject: GEC 14, NCM 66, NCM 66.1, NCM 67
Course Code: NCM 95
Course Credit: 2 units lecture / 1-unit RLE

Instructor: CARLO JASON S. DELA CRUZ, MAN,R.N,R.M,BSM

Academic Year: First Semester 2020-2021

MODULE: II (CONCEPTUAL PHASE)

ON COMPLETING THIS MODULE, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Distinguish terms associated with quantitative and qualitative research

• Distinguish experimental and nonexperimental research
• Identify the three main disciplinary traditions for qualitative nursing research
• Describe the flow and sequence of activities in quantitative and qualitative
research, and discuss why they differ
• On completing this chapter, you will be able to:
• Evaluate the compatibility of a research problem and a paradigm
• Describe the process of developing and refining a research problem
• Distinguish the functions and forms of statements of purpose and research
questions for quantitative and qualitative studies
• Describe the function and characteristics of research hypotheses and distinguish
different types of hypotheses (e.g., directional versus nondirectional, research
versus null)
• Critique statements of purpose, research questions, and hypotheses in research
reports with respect to their placement, clarity, wording, and significance
• Determine the purposes for the literature review
• Recognize the need for becoming familiar with the library’s services
• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources in research literature
• Recognize the importance of grey literature
• Discuss print resources that may be used in locating literature references
• Discuss electronic sources that may be used in locating literature references
• Compare electronic sources that are useful for nurses when conducting a
literature review
• Obtain references from online journals
• Conduct a literature search on a given topic
• Extract pertinent information from literature sources
• Critique the literature review section of research articles
• Define theory, concept, construct, proposition, empirical generalization, model,
and conceptual models
• Discuss four nursing conceptual models
• Distinguish between theoretical and conceptual frameworks
• Describe deductive and inductive reasoning processes in theory generation and
development
• Identify theories used in nursing
• Identify the steps used in testing a theory
• Critique the study framework section of research reports
• Determine the purposes of hypotheses in research studies
• Identify sources or rationale for study hypotheses
• Describe classifications of hypotheses
• Distinguish between simple and complex hypotheses
• Compare null hypotheses and research hypotheses
• Differentiate nondirectional and directional research hypotheses
• List the criteria to be considered when formulating a hypothesis
• Discuss the format for writing hypotheses
• Recognize the use of hypotheses in the testing of theories
• Determine the types of studies for which hypotheses are not needed
• Critique study hypotheses in research reports
• Define new terms