, Table of Contents
Part I Overview of Nursing Research and Its Role in Evidence-Based Practice
o Chapter 1 Introducing Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice
o Chapter 2 Understanding Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
o Chapter 3 Reading and Critically Appraising Research Articles
o Chapter 4 Attending to Ethics in Research
Part 2 Preliminary Steps in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
o Chapter 5 Identifying Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
o Chapter 6 Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature
o Chapter 7 Understanding Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
Part 3 Designs and Methods for Qualitative and Quantitative Nursing
Research
o Chapter 8 Appraising Quantitative Research Design
o Chapter 9 Appraising Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies
o Chapter 10 Appraising Qualitative Designs and Approaches
o Chapter 11 Appraising Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies
o Chapter 12 Understanding Mixed Methods Research, Quality Improvement, and
Other Special Types of Research
Part 4 Analysis, Interpretation, and Application of Nursing Research
o Chapter 13 Understanding Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data
o Chapter 14 Interpreting Quantitative Findings and Evaluating Clinical Significance
o Chapter 15 Understanding the Analysis of Qualitative Data
o Chapter 16 Appraising Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research
o Chapter 17 Learning from Systematic Reviews
o Chapter 18 Putting Research Evidence into Practice: Evidence-Based Practice and
Practice-Based Evidence
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CHAPTER # 1
1. Which of the following groups would be best served by the development of a scientific
base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
Ans: C
Feedback: Nursing research is systematic inquiry designed to develop trustworthy evidence
about issues of importance to nurses and their clients. Nurse leaders recognize the need to base
specific nursing decisions on evidence indicating that the decisions are clinically appropriate,
cost-effective, and result in positive client outcomes. Although all of the people listed would
benefit from the development of a scientific base for nursing practice, ultimately it is the clients
themselves who would most benefit, as they would then receive the most appropriate and most
effective care.
2. An especially important goal for the nursing profession is to do which of the following?
A) Conduct research to better understand the context of nursing practice
B) Establish a solid base of evidence for practice through disciplined research
C) Document the role nursing serves in society
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D) Establish research priorities
Ans: B
Feedback: Nurses are increasingly expected to understand and undertake research and to base
their practice on evidence from research. Evidence-based practice is the use of the best evidence
in making patient care decisions and typically comes from research conducted by nurses and
other health-care professionals. All of the other answers are possible goals for the nursing
profession, but none is as important as establishing evidence for practice.
3. Which of the following is a fundamental belief of those who hold to the constructivist
paradigm?
A) A fixed reality exists in nature for humans to understand
B) The nature of reality has changed over time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically
Ans: C
Feedback: In the constructivist paradigm, it is assumed that reality is not a fixed entity but is
rather a construction of human minds, and thus “truth” is a composite of multiple constructions
of reality. However, constructivists do believe that reality can be studied empirically. Belief in a
fixed reality that exists in nature for humans to understand would be an example of a positivist
belief, not a constructivist one. The constructivist belief does not hold so much that the nature of
reality has changed over time as that it has always been constructed by human minds.
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Part I Overview of Nursing Research and Its Role in Evidence-Based Practice
o Chapter 1 Introducing Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice
o Chapter 2 Understanding Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
o Chapter 3 Reading and Critically Appraising Research Articles
o Chapter 4 Attending to Ethics in Research
Part 2 Preliminary Steps in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
o Chapter 5 Identifying Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
o Chapter 6 Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature
o Chapter 7 Understanding Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
Part 3 Designs and Methods for Qualitative and Quantitative Nursing
Research
o Chapter 8 Appraising Quantitative Research Design
o Chapter 9 Appraising Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies
o Chapter 10 Appraising Qualitative Designs and Approaches
o Chapter 11 Appraising Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies
o Chapter 12 Understanding Mixed Methods Research, Quality Improvement, and
Other Special Types of Research
Part 4 Analysis, Interpretation, and Application of Nursing Research
o Chapter 13 Understanding Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data
o Chapter 14 Interpreting Quantitative Findings and Evaluating Clinical Significance
o Chapter 15 Understanding the Analysis of Qualitative Data
o Chapter 16 Appraising Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research
o Chapter 17 Learning from Systematic Reviews
o Chapter 18 Putting Research Evidence into Practice: Evidence-Based Practice and
Practice-Based Evidence
,Essentials of Nursing Research Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice 10th Edition Polit
CHAPTER # 1
1. Which of the following groups would be best served by the development of a scientific
base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
Ans: C
Feedback: Nursing research is systematic inquiry designed to develop trustworthy evidence
about issues of importance to nurses and their clients. Nurse leaders recognize the need to base
specific nursing decisions on evidence indicating that the decisions are clinically appropriate,
cost-effective, and result in positive client outcomes. Although all of the people listed would
benefit from the development of a scientific base for nursing practice, ultimately it is the clients
themselves who would most benefit, as they would then receive the most appropriate and most
effective care.
2. An especially important goal for the nursing profession is to do which of the following?
A) Conduct research to better understand the context of nursing practice
B) Establish a solid base of evidence for practice through disciplined research
C) Document the role nursing serves in society
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D) Establish research priorities
Ans: B
Feedback: Nurses are increasingly expected to understand and undertake research and to base
their practice on evidence from research. Evidence-based practice is the use of the best evidence
in making patient care decisions and typically comes from research conducted by nurses and
other health-care professionals. All of the other answers are possible goals for the nursing
profession, but none is as important as establishing evidence for practice.
3. Which of the following is a fundamental belief of those who hold to the constructivist
paradigm?
A) A fixed reality exists in nature for humans to understand
B) The nature of reality has changed over time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically
Ans: C
Feedback: In the constructivist paradigm, it is assumed that reality is not a fixed entity but is
rather a construction of human minds, and thus “truth” is a composite of multiple constructions
of reality. However, constructivists do believe that reality can be studied empirically. Belief in a
fixed reality that exists in nature for humans to understand would be an example of a positivist
belief, not a constructivist one. The constructivist belief does not hold so much that the nature of
reality has changed over time as that it has always been constructed by human minds.
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