Nursing 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Content Analysis, Blood Sugar, Operationalization
16 Dec 2016
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Nurses use all of their senses when collecting data from the patient to whom they provided care. Objective means that the data must not be influenced by the person who collects the information, and systematic means that the data must be collected in the same methodological way by each person involved in the collection procedure. Operationalization is the process of translating the concepts of interest to a researcher into observable and measurable phenomena. The success of a study largely depends on the quality of the data-collection methods chosen and employed. Measurement is the assignment of numbers to objects or events according to rules; determining which measurement to se in a particular investigation may be the most difficult and time-consuming step in the study design. To study variables of interest, researchers also may use data that have already been collected for another purpose, such as records, diaries, or other media.
