PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXAM 4
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● Nursing Research
Answer: systematic inquiry designed to develop trustworthy evidence
about issues of importance to nurses and their clients
●● Triple Aim
Answer: Improve Health
Lower Costs
Better Care
●● Source of Evidence
Answer: Tradition
Authority
Clinical Experience
Logical Reasoning
Assembled Information
Scientific Method/Disciplined research
●● National Institute of Nursing Research - MISSION
,Answer: Supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific
basis for the care of individuals across the life span.
●● Paradigm
Answer: A world view; a general perspective on the complexities of the
real world, with certain assumptions about reality
●● Positivist assumption
Answer: Reality exists.
There is a real world driven by natural causes.
●● Constructivist Assumption
Answer: Reality is multiple and subjective, constructed by individuals
●● Research Method
Answer: the technique used to structure a study and to gather, analyze
and interpret information
●● Quantitative Research
Answer: Most often allied with positivist tradition Primary Numerical.
Directed at description. Cause and effect
●● Qualitative Research
,Answer: most often allied with the constructivist tradition.
Constructivist. Primary word based. Holistic.
●● Mixed Methods
Answer: Uses a little bit of both
●● Purposes of Research
Answer: identification and description. exploration. explanation.
prediction and control.
●● descriptive research
Answer: identify the nature and attributes of a nursing phenomena and
sometimes the relationships among these phenomena
●● Explanatory Research
Answer: Provides a basis for conducting studies for the purposes of
predicting and controlling patient outcomes
Relationships among variables are clarified
●● Predictive Research
Answer: Estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given
situation
, ●● Control
Answer: Manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome
●● Basic Research (Pure Research)
Answer: Pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake
●● Applied Research
Answer: An investigation that seeks to find solutions to practical
problems.
●● Role of Nurses in Research
Answer: Continuum of participation, from producers of research to
skilled consumers of research findings who use research evidence in
their practice
●● Evidence Bases Practice
Answer: The use of the best available evidence in making patient care
decisions, and such evidence typically comes from research conducted
by nurses and other health care professionals"
●● Research Utilization
Answer: involves critical analysis and evaluation of research findings
and then determining how these findings fit into clinical practice.
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● Nursing Research
Answer: systematic inquiry designed to develop trustworthy evidence
about issues of importance to nurses and their clients
●● Triple Aim
Answer: Improve Health
Lower Costs
Better Care
●● Source of Evidence
Answer: Tradition
Authority
Clinical Experience
Logical Reasoning
Assembled Information
Scientific Method/Disciplined research
●● National Institute of Nursing Research - MISSION
,Answer: Supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific
basis for the care of individuals across the life span.
●● Paradigm
Answer: A world view; a general perspective on the complexities of the
real world, with certain assumptions about reality
●● Positivist assumption
Answer: Reality exists.
There is a real world driven by natural causes.
●● Constructivist Assumption
Answer: Reality is multiple and subjective, constructed by individuals
●● Research Method
Answer: the technique used to structure a study and to gather, analyze
and interpret information
●● Quantitative Research
Answer: Most often allied with positivist tradition Primary Numerical.
Directed at description. Cause and effect
●● Qualitative Research
,Answer: most often allied with the constructivist tradition.
Constructivist. Primary word based. Holistic.
●● Mixed Methods
Answer: Uses a little bit of both
●● Purposes of Research
Answer: identification and description. exploration. explanation.
prediction and control.
●● descriptive research
Answer: identify the nature and attributes of a nursing phenomena and
sometimes the relationships among these phenomena
●● Explanatory Research
Answer: Provides a basis for conducting studies for the purposes of
predicting and controlling patient outcomes
Relationships among variables are clarified
●● Predictive Research
Answer: Estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given
situation
, ●● Control
Answer: Manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome
●● Basic Research (Pure Research)
Answer: Pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake
●● Applied Research
Answer: An investigation that seeks to find solutions to practical
problems.
●● Role of Nurses in Research
Answer: Continuum of participation, from producers of research to
skilled consumers of research findings who use research evidence in
their practice
●● Evidence Bases Practice
Answer: The use of the best available evidence in making patient care
decisions, and such evidence typically comes from research conducted
by nurses and other health care professionals"
●● Research Utilization
Answer: involves critical analysis and evaluation of research findings
and then determining how these findings fit into clinical practice.
