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A nurse is giving a class on vulnerable populations, what statements made by the nurse
demonstrates ethnicity and health status? - Answer Ethnic and rachial minorities are more
vulnerable to poor health status than the rest of the population
What population is at an increased risk of having poor health outcomes? - Answer
Vulnerable populations
What is evidence-based nursing research? - Answer It is the application to patient care in
reference to the clinical environment
How would you explain the importance of nursing research to a nursing colleague who is
skepticism? - Answer Nursing research has the ability to improve nursing practice and
patient outcomes
What type of nursing research a source of evidence-based practice regarding nursing
knowledge? - Answer Traditional
What source of nursing knowledge does a nurse when she rewrites a procedure regarding the
placement of a nasogastric tube? - Answer Scientific knowledge
Why do nurses study nursing theory? - Answer It is helpful in explaining how nursing
knowledge and practice improves patient care
What is an example of what type of knowledge is used when a nurse changes a patients
bedclothes each day? - Answer Traditional
What is an example of what type of knowledge is used when a nurse is caring for a patient that
was in an automobile accident in regards to checking vital signs, creates a plan of care, etc. ? -
Answer Scientific knowledge
What is the most critical of the four concepts in nursing theory? - Answer Person
What is applied research? - Answer It improves clinical practice
What nursing theorists was responsible for the self-care model? - Answer Dorothy Orem
, What are several ways that a nurse can defend the importance of nursing research? - Answer
It improves nursing practice and patient outcomes, it helps to build a sound body of nursing
knowledge, and it helps the nurse to make knowledgeable changes to their practice.
How can a nurse identify that an activist performed on the telemetry unit falls within the scope
of nursing practice? - Answer The activity is consistent with sound nursing practice, there is
standard for this activity fro professional organizations, and the nurse is prepared to accept
accountability.
What organizations sets the scope and standards for all professional nursing practice? - Answer
American Nurse Association
What is the name of the information collected by a research to support hypothesis? - Answer
Data
What is a sample size os research study used for? - Answer To predict a larger populations
outcomes and to assure the statistical analysis will be valid and useful
What is qualitative research? - Answer Studying the perceptions of a group of individuals
with some type of spinal injury
Does qualitative research analysis numbers? - Answer No, it is based on the measurement of
perceptions, qualities or words
What is qualitative research that focuses on nursing events of the past? - Answer Historical
What type of qualitative research refers to describing experiences as they are lived by the
subjects being studied? - Answer Phenomenology
What does the letter "p" in the pico acronym stand for? - Answer Population
What are the components of a research journal? - Answer Abstract, results, discussions, peer
reviewed resources
What is included in a states nurse practice act? - Answer Scope of practice guidelines for that
state