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Essentials of Nursing Research Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice 9th Edition Polit Test Bank




Essentials of Nursing Research Appraising Evidence for
Nursing Practice 9th Edition Polit Test Bank (Answers given at
the end of each chapter)

Which of the following groups would be
1. best served by the development of a
scientific base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers




An especially important goal for the
2.
nursing profession is to:
Conduct research to better understand the
A)
context of nursing practice
Establish a base of evidence for practice
B)
through disciplined research
Document the role nursing serves in
C)
society
D) Establish research priorities




Which of the following would not be a
3. current priority for clinical nursing
research?
A) Pain management
B) Health promotion
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Prevention of illness


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, Essentials of Nursing Research Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice 9th Edition Polit Test Bank




Most nursing studies before 1950 focused
4.
on:
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical interventions
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education




To those espousing a naturalistic
5.
paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A fixed reality exists in nature for humans
A)
to understand
The nature of reality has changed over
B)
time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and



multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically




To those espousing a positivist paradigm,
6.
a fundamental belief is that:
The researcher is objective and
A)
independent of those being studied.
The researcher cannot interact with those
B)
being studied.
The researcher instructs those being
C) studied to be objective in providing
information.
The distance between the researcher and
D) those being researched is minimized to

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, Essentials of Nursing Research Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice 9th Edition Polit Test Bank



enhance the interactive process.




The traditional scientific method is not
7. characterized by which of the following
attributes?
A) Control over external factors
Systematic measurement and observation
B)
of natural phenomena
Testing of hunches deduced from theory
C)
or prior research
Emphasis on a holistic view of a
D)
phenomenon, studied in a rich context




8. Empiricism refers to:

Making generalizations from specific
A)
observations
Deducing specific predictions from
B)
generalizations
Gathering evidence about real-world
C)
phenomena through the senses
Verifying the assumptions on which the
D)
study was based




A hallmark of the scientific method is that
9.
it is:
A) Rigorous




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B) Holistic
C) Systematic
D) Flexible




Which of the following limits the power
10. of the scientific method to answer
questions about human life?
The necessity of departing from
A)
traditional beliefs
The difficulty of accurately measuring
B)
complex human traits
The difficulty of gaining the cooperation
C)
of humans as study participants
The shortage of theories about human
D)
behavior




The classic scientific method has its
11.
intellectual roots in:
A) Positivism
B) Determinism
C) Constructivism
D) Empiricism




One of the criticisms of the scientific
12.
method is that it is overly:
A) Logical
B) Deterministic
C) Empirical

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