Nursing Research Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Nursing Research Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
A newly employed nurse administrator wants to explore the current database containing
information on the employees on the units the administrator supervises. The manager accesses
the managerial database and gathers data about all of the curre...
Nursing Research Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
A newly employed nurse administrator wants to explore the current database containing
information on the employees on the units the administrator supervises. The manager accesses
the managerial database and gathers data about all of the current employees on the unit,
including work shift, number of years employed, age, gender, educational preparation,
certifications, work history, and professional accomplishments. What type of research is this? -
answer✔Descriptive research
In which way did Florence Nightingale contribute to evidence-based practice? - answer✔She
gathered data on morbidity and mortality that changed the care of hospitalized soldiers.
What does the "grounded" in grounded theory mean? - answer✔b. The theory that emerges is
"grounded" in real-world data.
What does a quantitative research instrument measure? - answer✔c. A study variable
A researcher uses interviews with two or three open-ended questions to study patients receiving
cancer treatments for pancreatic cancer, in order to understand their lived experiences and the
meanings they attribute to those complex experiences. What type of research is this? -
answer✔Phenomenologic research
A student completes her master's thesis on correlates of depression in retired airline pilots and a
copy has been provided to her each member of her thesis committee. Has this student
communicated her research findings? - answer✔No, because the findings have not been made
available to the appropriate persons who will utilize them.
Which of the following is the general purpose of phenomenological research? - answer✔To
describe the lived experience
In a rehabilitation unit, patients are randomly assigned to high fiber diets versus ordinary fiber
diets, in order to measure the effect on constipation. What type of research is this? -
answer✔Experimental research
A researcher designs a study. It depends on interviews to gather data, it has a clear purpose
statement, it provides its results as a narrative without statistical analysis, and it makes general
suggestions for practice. What type of research is this? - answer✔Qualitative research
Hospital nurses are observed in order to determine exactly how long nurses swab IV ports with
alcohol. Because they are being observed, they "scrub the hub" longer than they ordinarily would
have. This is an example of what concept relevant to quantitative research? - answer✔d.
Hawthorne effect
Which is the best statement that differentiates between the sizes of samples and populations? -
answer✔A population is usually larger than a sample.
In an effort to generate knowledge that will improve clinical practice, a researcher conducts a
study to determine the effectiveness of a special program of sensitivity training for nurse
managers upon several outcomes, all related to the staff's ability to identify and intervene
appropriately when medication errors occur. This is an example of what type of quantitative
research? - answer✔Applied research
A researcher studies the effect upon dental caries formation of a year-long regimen of daily
rinsing with a particularly noxious-flavored oral solution, only to discover than 285 of the 300
subjects in the study have withdrawn from it by the end of the first month. Which step in the
research process was not properly undertaken that might have refined the research treatment of
this study and improved the overall study? - answer✔Performing a pilot study
A human resources manager performs a study that focused on the professional lifespan of nurses
in a single health care facility. The manager is trying to discover whether there is a relationship
between their choice of work area and the number of years they have work in the facility. What
type of research is this? - answer✔Correlational research
A researcher publishes a paper describing how faith and meditation helped during the
rehabilitation process. Specifically, the nurse researcher was interested in the problems that a
group of patients had experienced in rehab and the processes they used to handle their problems.
The researcher knows that the findings of this study are grounded in concrete world experiences
but interpreted at a more abstract theoretical level. The methodology used by this researcher is an
inductive method known as: - answer✔Grounded theory
If a nurse manager wants to study how effective last year's policies governing implementation of
a "bundle" of interventions to prevent cross-contamination of MRSA have been working in her
units, which of the following research strategies would she use? - answer✔Outcomes research
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