What is the ultimate goal of expanding nursing knowledge through nursing research?
A. Learn improved ways to promote and maintain health B. Develop technology to provide hands-on nursing care C. Apply knowledge to become independent practitioners D. Become full-fledged partners with other care pro...
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What is the ultimate goal of expanding nursing knowledge through nursing research?
A. Learn improved ways to promote and maintain health
B. Develop technology to provide hands-on nursing care
C. Apply knowledge to become independent practitioners
D. Become full-fledged partners with other care providers ✅A. Learn improved ways to
promote and maintain health
Before developing a procedure, a nurse reviews all current research-based literature on
insertion of a nasogastric tube. What type of nursing will be practiced based on this
review?
A. Institutional practice
B. Authoritative nursing
C. Evidence-based practice
D. Fact-based nursing ✅C. Evidence-based practice
A nurse working in a long-established hospital learned a specific approach to
administering intravenous injections from the previous generation of nurses at the
hospital. This is an example of which type of knowledge?
A. Traditional knowledge
B. Authoritative knowledge
C. Scientific knowledge
D. Philosophy knowledge ✅A. Traditional knowledge
Where in a research journal article is the abstract located?
A. In the introduction
B. In the methods section
C. After the references
D. At the beginning ✅D. At the beginning
A nurse researcher must decide on the method for conducting the research. The
researcher that plans to emphasize collection of numerical data and analysis would
select which method of research?
A. Quantitative research
B. Qualitative research
C. Basic research
D. Applied research ✅A. Quantitative research
,A nurse is developing a foreground question for nursing research using the PICO
model. Which component would be represented by the statement, "a 45-year-old male
with coronary heart disease and atrial fibrillation"?
A. P
B. I
C. C
D. O ✅A. P (patient)
Nurse researchers have predicted that a newly created mentorship program will result in
decreased absenteeism, increased retention, and decreased attrition among a hospital's
nursing staff. What does this predicted relationship represent?
A. Hypothesis
B. Dependent variable
C. Abstract
D. Methodology ✅A. Hypothesis
After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical
surgical unit rewrites the procedure on assessing placement of a nasogastric tube.
What source of nursing knowledge did the nurse use in this situation?
A. Scientific knowledge
B. Traditional knowledge
C. Authoritative knowledge
D. Philosophical knowledge ✅A. Scientific knowledge
Which activity best helps the nurse apply theory to practice?
A. Theory development
B. Evidence-based research
C. Client-focused care
D. Case management ✅B. Evidence-based research
Which term is most closely associated with quantitative research?
A. Process
B. Concept
C. Ethnography
D. Variable ✅D. Variable
Which of the four concepts common in all nursing theories is the most important to
nursing?
A. Person
B. Environment
C. Health
D. Nursing ✅A. Person
,Which statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?
A. Theoretic frameworks guide physiologic nursing care.
B. Theoretic frameworks guide psychosocial nursing care.
C. Theoretic frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
D. Theoretic frameworks advance the ethical aspects of practice. ✅C. Theoretic
frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
One of the primary reasons for conducting nursing research is to:
A. quantify outcomes related to clients.
B. determine outcomes for clients.
C. generate knowledge to guide practice.
D. prevent further disease and death. ✅C. generate knowledge to guide practice.
What type of research study would a hospital conduct to explore clients' and families'
perceptions of receiving care?
A. Quantitative
B. Qualitative
C. Ordinal
D. Nonscientific ✅B. Qualitative
A nurse uses the process of quantitative research to study the incidence and causes of
hospital-acquired pneumonia in the nurse's hospital. The statement of what the
researcher expects to find in these studies is called the:
A. variable.
B. data.
C. hypothesis.
D. instrument. ✅C. hypothesis.
A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilized
stroke clients more frequently in order to prevent skin breakdown. The team has begun
by formulating a PICO question. Which element will the "O" in the team's PICO question
refer to?
A. Preventing skin breakdown
B. Clients who have experienced a stroke
C. Turning clients more frequently
D. The currently used turning schedule ✅A. Preventing skin breakdown
What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has changed
the way nursing care is delivered?
A. Nurses now spend time looking up the best way to give nursing care.
B. Nurses now have to take part in research.
C. Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care.
D. Nursing care now incorporates research studies into client care. ✅C. Nursing care
now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care.
, Nursing research is linked most closely to:
A. propositions.
B. outcome measures.
C. treatments.
D. nursing process. ✅D. nursing process.
A nurse researcher is collecting nominal data. What type of research is being
conducted?
A. Quantitative research
B. Qualitative research
C. Interval research
D. Experimental research ✅A. Quantitative research
An obstetrical nurse wishes to identify whether clients' perceptions of a high level of
support from their partner is associated with a decreased length of the second stage of
labor. Which type of quantitative research is most appropriate for this research
question?
A. Correlational research
B. Descriptive research
C. Quasi-experimental research
D. Experimental research ✅A. Correlational research
A nurse researcher is examining the cause-and-effect relationship between the
consumption of tap water containing minimal amounts of bleach, and the incidence of
cancer in rats. The research is taking place in a laboratory setting. What type of
quantitative research is being used based upon this description?
A. Experimental research
B. Descriptive research
C. Correlational research
D. Quasi-experimental research ✅A. Experimental research
Which represents the basic framework of the research process?
A. Qualitative data
B. Quantitative data
C. Nursing process
D. Nursing theory ✅C. Nursing process
The statement, "More frequent handwashing will significantly lower the rate of infection
in hospitalized clients," is an example of what research component?
A. Hypothesis
B. Proposal
C. Research question
D. Implication ✅A. Hypothesis
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