Which of the following groups would be
best served by the development of a
scientific base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B)
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C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
2. An especially important goal for the
nursing profession is to:
A) Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice
B) Establish a base of evidence for practice
through disciplined research
C) Document the role nursing serves in
society
D) Establish research priorities
3.
Which of the following would not be a
current priority for clinical nursing
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A) Pain management
B) Health promotion
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Prevention of illness
4. Most nursing studies before 1950 focused
on:
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical interventions
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
5. To those espousing a naturalistic
paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A) A fixed reality exists in nature for humans
to understand
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B) The nature of reality has changed over
time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and
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multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically
6. To those espousing a positivist paradigm,
a fundamental belief is that:
A) The researcher is objective and
independent of those being studied.
B) The researcher cannot interact with those
being studied.
C)
The researcher instructs those being
studied to be objective in providing
information.
D)
The distance between the researcher and
those being researched is minimized to
enhance the interactive process.
7.
The traditional scientific method is not
characterized by which of the following
attributes?
A) Control over external factors
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B
SSMyOsteRmEa.tiCc OmMeasurement and observation
of natural phenomena
C) Testing of hunches deduced from theory
or prior research
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