BURNS AND GROVE'S THE PRACTICE OF NURSING
RESEARCH, 9TH EDITION GRAY’S TESTBANK/ALL
CHAPTERS 1-29 | COMPLETE GUIDE 2024-2025
,Chapter 1: Discovering the World of Nursing Research
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Caregivers with a bachelor’s degree in nursing can participate in the implementation of
evidence- based protocols in practice. This means that the BSN caregiver
a. Develops evidence-based guidelines
b. Designs research studies, on which protocols may be based
c. Evaluates and revises evidence-based protocols
d. Contributes practice wisdom when applying protocols in client settings
e. Mentors PhD researchers in the clinical setting during protocol development
CORRECT ANSWER:-
D
Feedback :->>>Caregivers with a BSN degree have knowledge of the research process and
skills in reading and critically appraising studies. They assist with the implementation of
evidence-based guidelines, protocols, algorithms, and policies in practice. This implies that
caregivers provide their point of view, from the clinician’s vantage, when new protocols are
being put into practice, and continue to provide feedback, regarding the positive and negative
aspects of those protocols.
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2. Research is designed to test the idea of providing companion dogs to elders in a major
hospital, in order to determine the effect upon the elders’ level of orientation. (The dogs’ level
of orientation will not be a focus of the research.) This type of study can do which of the
following?
a. Control
b. Describe
c. Explain
d. Predict
CORRECT ANSWER:-
A
Feedback :->>>Control is the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the desired
outcome. Description involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing
phenomena and, sometimes, the relationships among them. Explanation clarifies the
relationships among phenomena and identifies the reasons why certain events occur. The
ability to estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation in nursing practice
is known as prediction. The researcher’s focus is on predicting what is likely.
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3. A researcher wants to find out whether children with autism who are hospitalized on a
pediatric ward will require more hours of nursing care than average children when the parents
or caregivers are not present. What type of research outcome does this provide?
a. Control
b. Description
c. Explantation
d. Prediction
CORRECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>Control is the ability to manipulate the situation to produce the desired
outcome. Description involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing
, phenomena and, sometimes, the relationships among them. Explanation clarifies the
relationships among phenomena and identifies the reasons why certain events occur. The
ability to estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation in nursing practice
is known as prediction. The researcher’s focus is on predicting what is likely.
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4. A researcher who desires to determine the cause-and-effect relationship between requiring that
all children under the age of 8 will ride in special care harnesses and the subsequent rate of
children’s spinal cord injury will consequently utilize which form of nursing research?
a. Descriptive research
b. Outcomes research
c. Qualitative research
d. Quantitative research
CORRECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>Quantitative research, the most frequently used method, is a formal,
objective, systematic methodology to describe variables, test relationships, and examine
cause-and-effect interactions. Quantitative research includes experimental research, which is
the method for testing cause-and-effect relationships between and among specific variables.
Qualitative research methods are used for explaining meanings and describing experiences in
context. Descriptive research involves identifying and understanding the nature of phenomena
and, sometimes, the relationships among them. Outcomes research examines the end result of
care in huge populations, most often retrospectively, using a database.
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5. Despite the presence of an intraventricular drain, the intracranial pressure of an ICU neuro
client remains increased. The caregiver recalibrates the machine, makes sure the monitor is on
the same level as the drain, checks all connections, and then notifies the physician, who comes
to the unit and inserts a new drain. What type of reasoning prompts the caregiver to
recalibrate, ensure proper placement, and check connections?
a. Abstract reasoning
b. Concrete thinking
c. Logistic reasoning
d. Reality testing
CORRECT ANSWER:- C
Feedback :->>>Logistic reasoning is used to break a whole into parts that can be carefully
examined. Concrete thinking is oriented toward and limited by tangible things or by events
that are observed and experienced in reality. Abstract reasoning is oriented toward the
development of an idea without application to, or association with, a particular instance.
Reality testing is used to validate what is observed in the empirical world.
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6. A caregiver with considerable clinical expertise develops a policy for managing agitated
clients in the emergency department. The resultant policy emanates from
a. Abstract reasoning
b. Concrete thinking
c. Logistic reasoning
d. Reality testing
CORRECT ANSWER:- A
Feedback :->>>Abstract reasoning is oriented toward the development of an idea without
, application to, or association with, a particular instance. Concrete thinking is oriented toward
and limited by tangible things or by events that are observed and experienced in reality.
Logistic reasoning is used to break a whole into parts that can be carefully examined. Reality
testing is used to validate what is observed in the empirical world.
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7. A caregiver with considerable clinical expertise develops a policy for managing agitated
clients in the emergency department. The type of reasoning the caregiver uses to do this is
reasoning.
a. Problematic
b. Operational
c. Logistic
d. Inductive
CORRECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>Inductive reasoning involves reasoning that moves from the specific to the
general, whereby particular instances are observed and then combined into a larger whole or
general statement. Problematic reasoning involves (1) identifying a problem and factors
influencing it, (2) selecting solutions to the problem, and (3) resolving the problem.
Operational reasoning involves the identification of and discrimination among many
alternatives and viewpoints.
Logistic reasoning is used to break the whole into parts that can be carefully examined, as the
relationships among the parts can also be.
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8. What is the best explanation of intuition that forms a legitimate source of knowledge in
nursing?
a. It is based on knowledge thoroughly incorporated into thought but seldom
articulated.
b. It is based on a gift from the universe and should be honored when it arrives.
c. It is never inaccurate.
d. It is a revisiting of old knowledge, accompanied by deep reflection.
CORRECT ANSWER:- A
Feedback :->>>Intuition is the revisiting of old knowledge accompanied by deep reflection.
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9. Why is operational reasoning necessary for research?
a. Abstract concepts are of no use to nursing.
b. Standard interventions are obtained from operational reasoning.
c. It allows the researcher to measure the concepts studied.
d. It facilitates the researcher’s rapport with families.
