Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis

Question 1

suggests that the most important aspect of information discovery, retrieval, and delivery is the ability to acquire, process, generate, and disseminate knowledge in ways that help those managing the knowledge reevaluate and rethink the way they understand and use what they know and have learned.

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Foundation of Knowledge model

Question 2

is an intellectual framework for finding, understanding, evaluating, and using information

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Information literacy

Question 3

allow users to surf the web and find information on nearly anything, although many researchers steer clear of search engines because of the vast amounts of unsubstantiated information they are likely to uncover.

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Search engines

Question 4

are rich and dynamic digital collections affording high-quality knowledge support to their users for sharing, developing, and evolving knowledge. Knowledge networks include linked users of research collaborations.

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KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS

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is the process by which data collected during the course of a study are processed to identify trends and patterns of relationships.

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Data Analysis

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focus on numbers and frequencies, with the goal of describing a situation or looking for more robust relationships, such as correlations, and specific variable contributions to an outcome.

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Quantitative data

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are more concerned with describing meaning than with drawing statistical inferences; what is lost in reliability (e.g., faulty transcription or forgotten details) is gained in validity

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Qualitative data

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is a field that deals with ways to examine, analyze, and systematically extract data and information from data sets that are too large or complex to be processed using conventional data-processing application software

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Big data