Nursing Research Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Nursing Research Exam Questions With
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Evidence-based practice - answerConscious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in the care of patients and delivery of health care services.
Evidence-informed practice - answerAcknowledging and considering myriad factors beyo...
Nursing Research Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Evidence-based practice - answer✔Conscious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in the care of patients and delivery of health care services.
Evidence-informed practice - answer✔Acknowledging and considering myriad factors beyond
such evidence as local Indigenous knowledge, cultural and religious norms, and clinical
judgement.
Consumer - answer✔A person whose activity uses and applies research
Nursing research - answer✔Systematic process that validates and refines existing knowledge and
generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences nursing practice
Critical thinking - answer✔Rational examination of ideas, inferences, assumptions, principles,
arguments, conclusions, issues, statements, beliefs and actions.
Critical reading - answer✔Active, intellectually engaging process in which the reader
participates in an inner dialogue with the writer
Levels of Evidence - answer✔
Context - answer✔Personal, social, and political environment in which a phenomenon of interest
occurs
2 qualitative research methods - answer✔1. Qualitative research
2. Quantitative research
1. Qualitative research - answer✔Systematic, interactive, and subjective research method used to
describe and give meaning to life experiences. Data = words/text. Inductive reasoning = data to
theory (specific to general). Theory may be product. Relationship with participants integral. Goal
include understanding/pattern identification.
2. Quantitative research - answer✔Process of testing relationships, differences, and cause-and-
effect interactions among, and between variables. Processes are tested with hypotheses and
research questions through use of objective, precise, and highly controlled measurements
techniques to gather info. that can be analysed and summarised statistically. Data = numbers.
Deductive reasoning = theory to data (general to specific). Theory driven. Minimal interaction
with participants. Goal = generalization.
Concept - answer✔Image/symbolic representation of an abstract idea
Theory - answer✔Set of concepts that provides a systematic view of a phenomenon
Operational definition - answer✔Specifies how concept will be measured. What instruments will
be used to capture essence of variable.
Variables - answer✔Elements that can be observed through senses
Hypothesis - answer✔Tentative statement of relationship between 2 or more variables that can
be empirically tested. Prediction about one expects to find about variable outlined in study.
Naturalistic setting - answer✔One that people live in every day. Homes, schools, communities.
Data saturation - answer✔Point when info. collected by researcher becomes repetitive; ideas
conveyed by participants have been shared previously by other participants. No new ideas.
Reflexivity - answer✔Situation wherein researchers must monitor whether their own
perspectives are affecting their research methods, analyses, or interpretations.
Bracketing - answer✔Process by which researcher identifies personal biases about phenomenon
of interest to clarify how personal experience and beliefs may colour what is heard and reported.
Puts beliefs aside.
Triangulation - answer✔Expansion of research methods in a single study/multiple studies to
enhance diversity, enrich understanding, and accomplish specific goals.
Post-positivism - answer✔Suggests material world exists, can be sensed, touched, heard, and
tasted (measured). Used with quantitative research.
Critical social theory - answer✔Suggests reality is constructed by people with most power at a
particular point in history. Used with participation action research.
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