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N547 Review QuestionsA group of oncology nurses studied the effect of participation in a structured exercise program of
walking following mastectomy. The study purpose was to determine whether mild exercise
decreased reported side effects of chemotherapy at 3, 6, and 9 months during the intervention
period. The control group received chemotherapy without the structured program of exercise.
This study is an example of which of the following?
A. applied research
B. basic research
C. correlational research
D. descriptive research - ANS-A
A hypothetical population is:
A. a list of all members of the accessible population
B. a population that is not generated from real clinical situations, but a population that is
anticipated by the researcher
C. a population that cannot be defined because a list of all members of that population cannot
be obtained
D. found only in large databases - ANS-C
A major focus of ongoing research in nursing is the development and refinement of sets of
nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. Which one of the following best defines a nursing-sensitive
patient outcome indicator?
A. an incident of harm to a nurse, resulting from a patient-care encounter
B. a common action performed by a nurse that is especially sensitive to the nurse's mood or
general healthiness and well-being
C. a patient outcome that is at least partially attributable to nurses or nursing
D. a positive outcome accruing to a patient because of a nurse's sensitivity - ANS-C
A master's in nursing FNP student's total score on a multiple-choice final pharmacology
examination is an example of which level of measurement?
A. ratio
B. interval
C. nominal
D. ordinal - ANS-B
a nurse is hoping to study the effects of exercise on stress in nursing students. Prior to
designing the study, a literature search is conducted using the terms "stress" AND "nursing
student." The best database for the search is likely:
A. Medline
B. CINAHL
C. Academic Search Premier
,D. PsycARTICLES - ANS-B
A nurse midwife has conducted a qualitative study exploring women's disenfranchised grief
following an abortion (that is, her sense of not being able to grieve or discuss her sense of loss
openly following the procedure). As she analyzes the narratives gathered, which type of
reasoning will she use to gain a better understanding of this phenomenon?
A. dialectic
B. inductive
C. deductive
D. operational - ANS-A
A nurse researcher who studies nurses' job satisfaction plans a study to examine the
characteristics of ICU travel nurses and the extent to which these nurses differ, with respect to
job satisfaction scores, from other ICU nurses who are not travelers. What type of quantitative
research design is this?
A. comparative descriptive design
B. correlational design
C. time-dimensional design
D. Quasi-experimental design - ANS-A
A nurse who works at a women's clinic wishes to study the experience of women with eating
disorders who have experienced a miscarriage. Which one of the following research questions
reflects a phenomenological approach?
A. what is it like for women with eating disorders who have experienced a miscarriage?
B. between 1990 and 2010 in London, what agencies arose that were capable of providing
support for women with eating disorders who had experienced miscarriage?
C. is the depression following miscarriage more severe in women with eating disorders than in
women without eating disorders?
D. within the culture of women with eating disorders, what are common supportive gestures
extended to a woman who has miscarried? - ANS-A
A quasi-experimental design is an interventional design that lacks which of the following?
(SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. random assignment
B. random selection
C. the presence of a separate and distinct control group
D. a researcher-enacted intervention
E. measurement off effect of the intervention - ANS-A, C, D
A researcher interviews 14 participants, analyzes the data, and produces a framework
presenting ideas that seem to be connected with willingness to undergo routine colonoscopy at
recommended intervals. The ideas are family history of colon cancer, marital status, presence of
polyps with initial colonoscopy, and religious belief. What type of research is this?
A. exploratory-descriptive
, B. phenomenology
C. grounded theory research
D. ethnography - ANS-C
A researcher proposes that adolescent pregnancy rates are associated with communication
effectiveness, study skills, knowledge of the basic facts of sex and reproduction, home visitation
support, and peer support. This is an example of which of the following?
A. a relational statement
B. a conceptual mapping
C. a hierarchical statement set
D. a directional hypothesis - ANS-A
A researcher reports that the effect of his intervention did not lead to statistically significant
differences between the intervention and control groups. Changes in scores were, however, in
the direction anticipated based on his theoretical framework. What might this mean?
A. the intervention should be abandoned
B. the logic used in designing the study was faulty
C. the sample may have been too small
D. the study was poorly conducted - ANS-C
A statement that "the relationship between two concepts is expected to be linear and positive"
can be translated as which one of the following? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
A. a positive relationship states that the changes in concepts will benefit the subject
B. as values of Concept A increase, values of Concept B are expected to decrease
C. as values of Concept A decrease, values of Concept B are expected to decrease
D. as values of Concept A increase, values of Concept B are expected to increase - ANS-C, D
A study presents the results from the development of a new tool. This tool was established to
measure the level of anxiety perceived by nursing students. Which type of validity must this
study document for the tool? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
A. criterion-related validity
B. content validity
C. concurrent validity
D. construct validity - ANS-B, D
A study that involved a chart review to obtain only information about a patient's smoking history,
age, gender, and incidence of cardiovascular disease would require which type of review by an
institutional review board?
A. formal review
B. exempt from review
C. complete review
D. expedited review - ANS-B
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