NURS 311- Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th Edition
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
1. What is the highest priority for the importance
of research in the nursing profession?
A) Research findings provide evidence for
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
B) Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice.
C) Document the role that nurses serve in
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
2. Which group would be best served by clinical
nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
3. In the United States, in what area does
research play an important role in nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Nurses' education
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing
research?
A) Read research reports for relevant findings.
B) Participate in generating evidence by doing
research.
C) Participate in journal club in a practice
setting.
D) Solve clinical problems and make clinical
decisions.
5. What was the concern of most nursing studies
in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
6. Which topic most closely conforms to the priorities that have been suggested for future
nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
various clinical specialties.
7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our
heritage.
B) Developing specific predictions from general
principles.
C) Empirically testing observations that are made
known through our senses.
D) Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
8. What is the ontological assumption of those
espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
A) Objective reality and those natural
phenomena are regular and orderly.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard and result from
prior causes.
C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
interpreted by humans.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemological assumption of
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
A) The researcher is objective and independent
of those being studied.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have
antecedent causes.
C) The researcher instructs those being studied to
be objective in providing information.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds.
10. Which is not a characteristic of traditional
scientific method?
A) Control over external factors.
B) Systematic measurement and observation of
natural phenomena.
C) Deductive reasoning.
D) Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
11. What is empiricism?
A) Making generalizations from specific
observations.
B) Deducing specific predictions from
generalizations.
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
D) Verifying the assumptions on which the study
was based.
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
A) Infallible
B) Holistic
C) Systematic
D) Flexible
13. Which of the following limits the power of
the scientific method to answer questions about human life?
A) The necessity of departing from traditional
beliefs.
B) The difficulty of accurately measuring
complex human traits.
C) The inability to control potential biases.
D) The shortage of theories about human
behavior.
14. What is a criticism of the scientific method?
A) Deductive
B) Deterministic
C) Empirical
D) Reductionist
15. What is involved in naturalistic qualitative
research?
A) Involves deductive processes
B) Takes places in the field.
C) Focuses on the idiosyncrasies of those being
studied.
D) Attempts to control the research context to
better understand the phenomenon being studied.
16. A researcher wants to investigate the effect of patients' body position on blood pressure.
This is an example of what type of study?
A) Qualitative
B) Constructivist inquiry
C) Quantitative
D) Researcher preference of either quantitative or
Qualitative
17. A researcher is studying the effect of massage on the alleviation of pain in cancer patients.
This is an example of what type of study?
A) Descriptive
B) Exploratory
C) Applied
D) Basic
18. A researcher wants to study the process by which people make decisions about seeking treatment for infertility. What is the
researcher's paradigmatic orientation?
A) Positivism
B) Determinism
C) Empiricism
D) Naturalism
19. What is the continuum of participation on
research?
A) Academics to practitioners
B) Consumers to producers
C) Journalists to educators
D) Mentors to novice nurses
20. What is the goal of explanatory research?
A) Understand the underpinnings of natural phenomena and to explain systematic
relationships among them.
B) Begins with the phenomenon of interest, but rather than simply observing and describing it, exploratory research investigates the full nature of the phenomenon, the manner in which it is manifested, and the other factors to
which it is related.
C) Study phenomena about which little is known.
D) Make predictions and to control phenomena
based on research findings.
Answer Key
1. A
2. C
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
1. Research utilization begins with empirical findings for consideration in practice settings.
Where does evidence-based practice begin?
A) Integration of clinical judgments with
research evidence
B) A desire to abandon decisions based on
custom and authority opinion
C) A search for the best possible information for
addressing a clinical problem
D) A critique of existing practices
2. What is indirect research utilization?
A) Involves changes in nurses' thinking
B) Involves the direct use of findings in giving
patient care
C) Involves use of findings to persuade others
D) Involves changes in patient thinking toward
nurses
3. The student nurse is constructing a presentation on evidence-based practice. Which statement should be included in the
introduction about evidence-based practice?
A) Conscientious integration of current best
evidence with clinical expertise
B) Utilization of nursing preferences in making
clinical decisions
C) Theoretical problem-solving strategy
D) Emphasis on decision making based on
custom
4. Evidence-based practice typically involves weighing various types of evidence in an effort to determine best evidence. Most evidence hierarchies put which systematic
review at the pinnacle?
A) Randomized controlled trials
B) Program evaluations
C) Clinical practice guidelines
D) Meta-analyses of multiple clinical trials
5. The terms research utilization and evidence- based practice are sometimes used synonymously. The two concepts are distinct.
Where does research utilization start?
A) Uses findings of a study that are related to the
previous research of the topic.
B) Emphasis is on translating historical
knowledge into real-world applications.
C) Use of a set of studies in a practical
application unrelated to the original research.
D) Critique of existing practical applications
unrelated to historical research.
6. Which activity will limit researchers to
improve the prospect for evidence-based practice and research utilization?
A) Conducting high-quality, methodologically
sound studies
B) Disseminating results to a broad audience
C) Providing periodical available supports during
regular work hours
D) Discussing the clinical implications of their
study results in their research reports
7. Which is not a major barrier to evidence-
based practice in nursing?
A) The fact that many clinical nurses are not academically prepared to critically evaluate
nursing research studies
B) The support of organizations that reward
nurses who engage in research utilization efforts
C) The low number of replication of nursing
studies that show promise for utilization
D) The absence of quality, clinically relevant
nursing studies
8. evidence-based practice. What are care bundles?
A) Rigorous integrations of research evidence
from multiple studies of a topic
B) Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that combine a synthesis and appraisal of
research evidence
C) Set of interventions to treat or prevent a
cluster of symptoms
D) Meta-analysis or quantitative methods that
integrate findings statistically
9. There are several resources to support evidence-based practice. What is
metasynthesis?
A) Qualitative, narrative approach to integration
of a study
B) Quantitative method that integrate findings
statistically
C) Synthesis and appraisal of research evidence
with specific recommendations
D) Set of interventions to treat or prevent a
cluster of symptoms
10. Several models of evidence-based practice have been developed. Which model focuses on the use of research from the perspective of
individual clinicians?
A) ARCC Model
B) Clinical Nurse Scholar Model
C) Iowa Model
D) Stetler Model
11. A RN is putting research into practice. What
step of the process is involved with the validity of study findings?
A) Framing an answerable clinical question
B) Searching for relevant research evidence
C) Appraising the evidence
D) Integrating evidence with other factors
12. A student nurse is trying to find out what a
mixed methods synthesis is. What is a mixed methods synthesis?
A) Integrate and synthesize both quantitative and
qualitative evidence.
B) Integrate quantitative evidence.
C) Integrate and synthesize qualitative evidence.
D) Integrate qualitative evidence.
13. Systematic reviews are published in professional journals. Which database contains thousands of systematic reviews
related to healthcare interventions?
A) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
B) Campbell Collaboration
C) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
D) Joanna Briggs Institute
14. Clinical practice guidelines distill a large body of evidence into a manageable form.
Which describes clinical practice guidelines?
A) Give general recommendations for evidence-
based decision making.
B) Address all of the issues relevant to a clinical
decision.
C) Guide clinical practice when there are a
number of published articles.
D) Completed by researchers.
15. Which reference is a comprehensive reference resource that provides an array of clinical information for nurses, including evidence- based care sheets, best practice guidelines,
and point-of-care drug information?
A) Clinical Evidence
B) Evidence-based Nursing
C) Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing
D) Nursing Reference Center
16. Evidence-based practice writers distinguish between background and foreground
questions. What is a background question?
A) Based on current best research evidence.
B) Specific, detailed questions about a clinical
problem.
C) General, foundational questions about a
clinical issue.
D) Questions located on websites.
17. Fineout-Overholt and Johnston recommended a 5-component scheme for formulating evidence-based practice questions, using the acronym PICOT as a guide. Which two components are not always needed in this
model?
A) P and C
B) I and O
C) C and T
D) P and O
18. A nurse is putting research into practice. What is the first step that should be considered in
the process?
A) Framing an answerable clinical question
B) Searching for relevant research evidence
C) Appraising and synthesizing the evidence
D) Integrating evidence with other factors
19. Which occurs with individual evidence-based
practice efforts?
A) Tend to be less formalized approach than
organizational evidence-based practice.
B) Must take organizational factors into account.
C) Must take interpersonal factors into account.
D) Triggers for an individual project include
pressing clinical problems.
20. Appraisal of Guidelines Research and
Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument consists of ratings of quality on what type of scale?
A) 4-point scale
B) 5-point scale
C) 6-point scale
D) 7-point scale
Answer Key
1. C
2. A [Show Less]