1. Which of the following is the best definition of research?
a. Critically thinking about problems that occur in health care to determine possible solutions.
b. Information that is based on personal experience or tradition.
c. Planned and systematic activity that leads to new knowledge and/or the discovery of solutions to problems or questions.
d. Trying a variety of approaches to a clinical problem and settling on the approach that is effective more often than not.
Question 2
A researcher wishes to widely disseminate findings of outcomes research in order to influence practice in a variety of settings. Which methods might this researcher use?
a. A series of presentations and publications in professional and public forums
b. An oral presentation at an international conference
c. Publication in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals
d. Writing about this research in a chapter of a nursing textbook
TYPES OF RESEARCH
The overlapping relationship among research, evidence-based practice
Elements of critical thinking
The Economic Way of Thinking
The Definition of Intelligence (2 of 3)
Operations Research