NUR 330 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE | NUR 330 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE NCLEX REVIEW
2026/2027
Critical Appraisal - ✔✔examining research to consider its quality, results, and relevance to your own
context
all studies have strengths and limitations
- what does this mean for the conclusion
- how are these relevant for my application
Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔use of best evidence in making pt care decisions
Evidence Informed Practice - ✔✔considering many factors beyond evidence
clinical expertise, research evidence, pt values
Evidence-Informed Practice must take into account that: - ✔✔- our knowledge can be wrong
- our knowledge needs to be kept up-to-date
-the way research is done can influence results
- practice must be informed by the findings of the best quality research
- research must be integrated w/ the best clinical expertise, pt preference, and resources
dynamic and ongoing process
Historical Perspectives - 19th Century: Florence Nightingale - ✔✔During Crimean War
- made detailed, systematic observations of factors affecting soldier mortality and morbidity
1860: publishes "Notes on Nursing"
schools of nursing beginning to be established
Historical Perspectives - 20th Century: - ✔✔1900-1940:
- emphasis on prep of nurses to practice
- studies focus on nurses' education
1950s:
- first master's degree in nursing programs offered
1979:
- federal funding at McGill
1991:
- first PhD in nursing (U of A)
,1999:
- nursing research fund, $25m
- promote nursing research over 10 yrs
Historical Perspectives - 21st Century: - ✔✔research chair awards
18 schools offer nursing phd
nurse scientists lead/collaborate w/ interdisciplinary teams to conduct studies
apply to grants to secure funding
Nurse Researchers: Dr. Jennifer Stinson - ✔✔iOuch Lab
- examine how use of information and communication technologies can improve child health outcomes
MEDi robot
Nurse Researchers: Bukola Salami - ✔✔examining policies and practices shaping migrant health, and
black people's health
Nurse Researchers: Dr. Bonnie Stevens - ✔✔Stevens Lab
assessment of pain in hospitalized preterm and newborn infants
validated PIPP-R
effectiveness of knowledge translation (KT) strategies to improve pain outcomes
Practice Gap in Research - ✔✔40% is put into practice
20-30% of pts get care not needed or is harmful
takes 17 yrs (40%) of research to get implemented into practice
Post-Positivist Paradigm - ✔✔reality exists, and we can identity it
- we can use assessments and methods to identify a single reality
- errors exist
a material world exists, driven by real, natural causes
research independent from researched
objectivity; values and beliefs should be held
- influence is denied
goal: explanation and prediction
emphasis: on measured, quantitative info
, - deductive
Constructivist Paradigm - ✔✔multiple realities exist
- subjected
- constructed by individuals
researcher interacts w/ the researched
subjectivity; perspectives and values recognized as influential and inevitable
- influence is managed
goal: understanding social realities, interpretation of meaning
emphasis: on narrative info
- inductive (interview, survey, etc)
Purposes of Nursing Research - ✔✔- Identification & Description
- Exploration
- Prediction & Control
- Explanation
Workflow of a Quantitative Study - ✔✔"emergent design"
believe in multiple realities
1) Conceptual Phase
- define the problem
- form hypothesis
- define framework, lit review
2) Design & Planning Phase
- select research design, measurement methods
- identify pop.
3) Empirical Phase
- collect the data
4) Analytic Phase
- analyze the data
- interpret results
5) Dissemination Phase
- communicate the findings
spend more time on design phase
Variable - ✔✔characteristic that takes on different values
ex. BP, pain
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE NCLEX REVIEW
2026/2027
Critical Appraisal - ✔✔examining research to consider its quality, results, and relevance to your own
context
all studies have strengths and limitations
- what does this mean for the conclusion
- how are these relevant for my application
Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔use of best evidence in making pt care decisions
Evidence Informed Practice - ✔✔considering many factors beyond evidence
clinical expertise, research evidence, pt values
Evidence-Informed Practice must take into account that: - ✔✔- our knowledge can be wrong
- our knowledge needs to be kept up-to-date
-the way research is done can influence results
- practice must be informed by the findings of the best quality research
- research must be integrated w/ the best clinical expertise, pt preference, and resources
dynamic and ongoing process
Historical Perspectives - 19th Century: Florence Nightingale - ✔✔During Crimean War
- made detailed, systematic observations of factors affecting soldier mortality and morbidity
1860: publishes "Notes on Nursing"
schools of nursing beginning to be established
Historical Perspectives - 20th Century: - ✔✔1900-1940:
- emphasis on prep of nurses to practice
- studies focus on nurses' education
1950s:
- first master's degree in nursing programs offered
1979:
- federal funding at McGill
1991:
- first PhD in nursing (U of A)
,1999:
- nursing research fund, $25m
- promote nursing research over 10 yrs
Historical Perspectives - 21st Century: - ✔✔research chair awards
18 schools offer nursing phd
nurse scientists lead/collaborate w/ interdisciplinary teams to conduct studies
apply to grants to secure funding
Nurse Researchers: Dr. Jennifer Stinson - ✔✔iOuch Lab
- examine how use of information and communication technologies can improve child health outcomes
MEDi robot
Nurse Researchers: Bukola Salami - ✔✔examining policies and practices shaping migrant health, and
black people's health
Nurse Researchers: Dr. Bonnie Stevens - ✔✔Stevens Lab
assessment of pain in hospitalized preterm and newborn infants
validated PIPP-R
effectiveness of knowledge translation (KT) strategies to improve pain outcomes
Practice Gap in Research - ✔✔40% is put into practice
20-30% of pts get care not needed or is harmful
takes 17 yrs (40%) of research to get implemented into practice
Post-Positivist Paradigm - ✔✔reality exists, and we can identity it
- we can use assessments and methods to identify a single reality
- errors exist
a material world exists, driven by real, natural causes
research independent from researched
objectivity; values and beliefs should be held
- influence is denied
goal: explanation and prediction
emphasis: on measured, quantitative info
, - deductive
Constructivist Paradigm - ✔✔multiple realities exist
- subjected
- constructed by individuals
researcher interacts w/ the researched
subjectivity; perspectives and values recognized as influential and inevitable
- influence is managed
goal: understanding social realities, interpretation of meaning
emphasis: on narrative info
- inductive (interview, survey, etc)
Purposes of Nursing Research - ✔✔- Identification & Description
- Exploration
- Prediction & Control
- Explanation
Workflow of a Quantitative Study - ✔✔"emergent design"
believe in multiple realities
1) Conceptual Phase
- define the problem
- form hypothesis
- define framework, lit review
2) Design & Planning Phase
- select research design, measurement methods
- identify pop.
3) Empirical Phase
- collect the data
4) Analytic Phase
- analyze the data
- interpret results
5) Dissemination Phase
- communicate the findings
spend more time on design phase
Variable - ✔✔characteristic that takes on different values
ex. BP, pain
