Nursing Education, Administration and Research
Nursing Education, Administration and Research
This section combines teaching and learning, nursing management and research methods. Questions test Bloom's taxonomy, management functions, research designs and basic statistics.
Core rules
- Bloom's taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation; domains are cognitive, affective and psychomotor.
- Management functions: planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership styles include autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire.
- Research steps: problem, literature review, hypothesis, design, sampling, tool, data collection, analysis and report.
- Experimental design uses randomisation and a control group; quasi-experimental lacks randomisation; descriptive design describes without manipulation.
- Reliability is consistency; validity is accuracy of what is measured. Informed consent is mandatory.
- Statistics: mean, median, mode, standard deviation; p below 0.05 is usually significant.
Worked example
A study randomly assigns student nurses to a lecture group or a demonstration group and compares test scores. This is a true experimental design because randomisation and a control group are present. Without random assignment it would be quasi-experimental.
Traps
- Reliability is not validity; a scale can be consistent but wrong.
- Do not confuse qualitative and quantitative approaches.
- A hypothesis is not the same as a research question.