NURS 250 Final Exam Questions and Answers
What is the ultimate goal of expanding nursing knowledge through nursing research? ✔✔Learn
improved ways to promote and maintain health.
Information is collected for analysis in both quantitative and qualitative research. What is the
information called? ✔✔Data
Which principle underlies the ethical conduction of research in a hospital setting? ✔✔Clients
must grant informed consent if they are to participate.
A nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that
the opening paragraph summarizing the article and the research findings is a good place to
start. What part of the article is the nursing student reading? ✔✔Abstract
Staff nurses in an ICU setting have noticed that their clients required less interventions for pain
when the ICU was quiet. They passed their observations on to a nurse researcher and asked
the researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized
clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nursing body of
knowledge? ✔✔Nursing research helps improve ways to promote and maintain health.
What nursing activity forms the bridge between theory and practice? ✔✔Evidence-based
research
After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical surgical unit
rewrites the procedure on assessing placement of a nasogastric tube. What source of nursing
knowledge did the nurse use in this situation? ✔✔Scientific knowledge
There are four concepts common in all nursing theories. Which one of the four concepts is the
focus of nursing? ✔✔Person
, A client who is a chronic alcoholic is admitted to the healthcare facility with cirrhosis of the liver,
complaining of pain in the abdomen. The client expresses to the nurse that his family does not
love and respect him because of his addiction to alcohol. He admits that is unable to perform his
role as the bread winner of the family. Which of the following needs should be a priority for the
nurse? ✔✔Pain in the abdomen
Nurse researchers have predicted that a newly created mentorship program will result in
decreased absenteeism, increased retention, and decreased attrition among a hospital's
nursing staff. What does this predicted relationship represent? ✔✔Hypothesis
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to: ✔✔generate knowledge to guide practice.
One step in implementing evidence-based practice is to ask a question about a clinical area of
interest or an intervention. The most common method is the PICO format. Which of the following
accurately defines the letters in the PICO acronym? ✔✔P=population
Which statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks? ✔✔Theoretic
frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
A client undergoing chemotherapy for a brain tumor believes that having a good attitude will
help in the healing process. This is an example of what type of knowledge? ✔✔Philosophy
Which of the following terms is part of quantitative research? ✔✔variable
Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when prioritizing a patient's plan of care, what would be
the nurse's first priority? ✔✔Administering pain medications
Breaking the healthcare community into separate entities (such as the medical community, the
nursing staff, management, support staff) and analyzing how they work as a whole together is
an example of which nursing theory? ✔✔General systems theory
What is the ultimate goal of expanding nursing knowledge through nursing research? ✔✔Learn
improved ways to promote and maintain health.
Information is collected for analysis in both quantitative and qualitative research. What is the
information called? ✔✔Data
Which principle underlies the ethical conduction of research in a hospital setting? ✔✔Clients
must grant informed consent if they are to participate.
A nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that
the opening paragraph summarizing the article and the research findings is a good place to
start. What part of the article is the nursing student reading? ✔✔Abstract
Staff nurses in an ICU setting have noticed that their clients required less interventions for pain
when the ICU was quiet. They passed their observations on to a nurse researcher and asked
the researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized
clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nursing body of
knowledge? ✔✔Nursing research helps improve ways to promote and maintain health.
What nursing activity forms the bridge between theory and practice? ✔✔Evidence-based
research
After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical surgical unit
rewrites the procedure on assessing placement of a nasogastric tube. What source of nursing
knowledge did the nurse use in this situation? ✔✔Scientific knowledge
There are four concepts common in all nursing theories. Which one of the four concepts is the
focus of nursing? ✔✔Person
, A client who is a chronic alcoholic is admitted to the healthcare facility with cirrhosis of the liver,
complaining of pain in the abdomen. The client expresses to the nurse that his family does not
love and respect him because of his addiction to alcohol. He admits that is unable to perform his
role as the bread winner of the family. Which of the following needs should be a priority for the
nurse? ✔✔Pain in the abdomen
Nurse researchers have predicted that a newly created mentorship program will result in
decreased absenteeism, increased retention, and decreased attrition among a hospital's
nursing staff. What does this predicted relationship represent? ✔✔Hypothesis
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to: ✔✔generate knowledge to guide practice.
One step in implementing evidence-based practice is to ask a question about a clinical area of
interest or an intervention. The most common method is the PICO format. Which of the following
accurately defines the letters in the PICO acronym? ✔✔P=population
Which statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks? ✔✔Theoretic
frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
A client undergoing chemotherapy for a brain tumor believes that having a good attitude will
help in the healing process. This is an example of what type of knowledge? ✔✔Philosophy
Which of the following terms is part of quantitative research? ✔✔variable
Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when prioritizing a patient's plan of care, what would be
the nurse's first priority? ✔✔Administering pain medications
Breaking the healthcare community into separate entities (such as the medical community, the
nursing staff, management, support staff) and analyzing how they work as a whole together is
an example of which nursing theory? ✔✔General systems theory
