,Test Bank - Chapter 01 ANSWER KEY
33 questions
01 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which statement best describes evidence-based practice (EBP)?
(A) A combination of best research evidence, clinical expertise, and the needs and values
of patients — Correct
(B) A determination of the factors necessary to control patient responses to care and delivery of
care
(C) The development of population care guidelines applicable to all patients
(D) The utilization of quantitative and qualitative studies to enhance patient outcomes
02 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse is collecting data about the sleep patterns of breastfed babies as part of a
larger research study. Which research method will the nurse use when collecting data for
this study?
(A) Control
(B) Description — Correct
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction
03 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse is participating in a study and is collecting data identifying the number of obese
adults whose parents were also obese or overweight. Which research method is being
used in this study?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction — Correct
04 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse reviews a study in which adherence to an asthma action plan is compared
among groups of young adults who received different asthma education. Which research
method does this represent?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation — Correct
(D) Prediction
1/8
,05 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse manager is interested in learning which attitudes among staff nurses may indicate
relative risk of needle-stick injuries. To study this, the nurse manager will employ which
method of study?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction — Correct
06 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which is the most important result of Florence Nightingale’s data collection and statistical
analysis during the Crimean War?
(A) Bringing awareness of the rigors of war to the general public in relation to care practices
(B) Developing a process for statistical analysis and nursing documentation
(C) Identifying and defining the role of nurses in modern health care
(D) Using clinical research to evaluate the need for sanitation, clean drinking water, and
adequate nutrition — Correct
07 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse participates in data collection in a study in which two different pain
management protocols are used with randomly assigned patients to measure differences
in postoperative recovery time. Which method of study is this?
(A) Control — Correct
(B) Correlation
(C) Description
(D) Explanation
08 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse reviews a study exploring experiences of nurses’ decision-making processes
regarding reporting a medical error. Which research method does this represent?
(A) Control
(B) Description — Correct
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction
09 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The development of nursing theories and conceptual models in the late 1960s and 1970s
served to
2/8
, (A) determine the effectiveness of nursing interventions.
(B) establish the concept of evidence-based practice.
(C) provide funding for nursing research.
(D) provide direction for nursing research. — Correct
10 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) began to change its focus to
(A) funding nursing rather than medical research.
(B) evaluating outcomes rather than process studies.
(C) increasing the status and funding for nursing research. — Correct
(D) supporting the dissemination of nursing research.
11 MULTIPLE CHOICE
An emphasis of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Hospital
Designation Program for Excellence in Nursing is
(A) research and development of clinical practice guidelines.
(B) putting qualitative research into practice in clinical settings.
(C) using standard nursing care plans based on outcomes research.
(D) utilizing evidence-based practice in nursing. — Correct
12 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The lead agency designated to improve healthcare quality is
(A) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). — Correct
(B) American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
(C) Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN).
(D) National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR).
13 MULTIPLE CHOICE
To help fulfill the mission of the National Institute for Nursing Research—to promote and
improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations—a study may be
conducted that
(A) assesses the effectiveness of strategies for weight management in patients with type 2
diabetes. — Correct
(B) compares the attitudes of nurses toward clients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
(C) generates up-to-date nursing diagnoses reflecting the needs of clients with type 2 diabetes.
(D) reviews hospital nurses’ adherence to glucose-monitoring guidelines for patients with type 2
diabetes.
3/8
,14 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which best describes the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competency
for evidence-based practice (EBP)?
(A) Adhering to published guidelines to provide care for a specific population
(B) Empowering clients to choose among effective disease management strategies —
Correct
(C) Relying on expert knowledge to guide care plan development for an individual patient
(D) Using evidence gained solely from experimental studies to guide care
15 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Through knowledge gained from her phenomenological qualitative study identifying levels
of experience of professional nurses, Patricia Benner would identify which nurse as an
expert?
(A) A hospice nurse who values the unique wishes of each patient when providing palliative care
(B) A medical-surgical nurse who organizes care for a group of patients to ensure timely
administration of medications
(C) A neonatal intensive care nurse who is skilled in inserting peripherally inserted central
catheters
(D) A pediatric nurse who notes subtle changes and intervenes to prevent respiratory
failure — Correct
16 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which study exemplifies qualitative research?
(A) A study that evaluates appetite among residents of a long-term care facility and correlates this
data with whether or not residents are rooming together with their spouses
(B) A study that defines levels of appetite based on residents’ descriptions of hunger in a long-term
care facility
(C) A study that observes the interactions of spouses during mealtimes in a long-term care
facility — Correct
(D) A study that observes the effectiveness of spousal encouragement to eat on the residents’
quality of appetite in a long-term care facility
17 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which category of the quantitative research methods examines relationships and is
conducted to develop and refine explanatory knowledge for nursing practice?
(A) Descriptive research
(B) Correlational research — Correct
(C) Quasi-experimental research
(D) Experimental research
4/8
,18 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A common method of measurement used in qualitative research is
(A) scales.
(B) physiological measures.
(C) unstructured interviews. — Correct
(D) questionnaires.
19 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse researcher wants to know how well adolescent mothers can learn to manage their
children’s asthma and develops an initial study to explore and define perceptions of
asthma among this population. Which best describes this initial study?
(A) Correlational research
(B) Descriptive research — Correct
(C) Phenomenological research
(D) Outcomes research
20 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which research technique would be used by a nurse researcher who wishes to compare
bonding patterns of neonatal intensive care (NIC) infants to non-NIC infants to test
various theories about infant-parent bonding?
(A) Experimental
(B) Exploratory
(C) Grounded theory — Correct
(D) Quasi-experimental
21 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What type of qualitative research method would be used to describe and interpret a
culture and cultural behavior?
(A) Grounded theory
(B) Ethnographic research — Correct
(C) Exploratory-descriptive
(D) Phenomenological
22 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What type of study design would be used to evaluate patient satisfaction in an outpatient
clinic?
(A) Exploratory-descriptive research
(B) Outcomes research — Correct
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, (C) Qualitative research
(D) Phenomenological research
23 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse researcher wishes to review a body of qualitative studies about women’s
attitudes toward health care to develop an overall interpretation of these findings. Which
type of review will the nurse researcher use?
(A) Meta-analysis
(B) Meta-synthesis — Correct
(C) Mixed-methods systematic review
(D) Systematic review
24 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which type of evaluation of research yields the most precise estimates of treatment
effects when describing results?
(A) Meta-analysis — Correct
(B) Meta-synthesis
(C) Mixed-methods systematic review
(D) Systematic review
25 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse serves on a committee to develop a clinical protocol to guide dressing changes
for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) abscesses. Which is the most
important type of evidence to consider when formulating this protocol?
(A) Assertions from a panel of infectious disease physicians about existing protocols to treat this
organism
(B) A statistical review of experimental studies comparing various dressing change
protocols and patient outcomes — Correct
(C) A systematic review of all nursing and medical literature about the incidence of MRSA infection
and various dressing change protocols
(D) Studies identifying the correlations between variables such as dressing types and subsequent
infection rates
26 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Knowledge is acquired in nursing in a variety of ways. Which of the following describes
when one person credits another as the source of information?
(A) Borrowing
(B) Authority — Correct
(C) Traditions
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, (D) Personal experience
27 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What role will a new nurse graduate who has a BSN expect to play in research?
(A) Appraising studies and implementing evidence-based guidelines and protocols —
Correct
(B) Developing, evaluating, and revising evidence-based guidelines and protocols
(C) None, since the BSN affords limited education on the research process
(D) Synthesizing findings and leading healthcare teams to make evidence-based changes
28 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A job description for a nurse position in a teaching hospital includes “coordinating
research teams to facilitate studies to generate knowledge about nursing actions.” Which
type of advanced nursing degree would be required for this position?
(A) Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP)
(B) Doctorate in Nursing (PhD) — Correct
(C) Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
(D) Post-Doctorate in Nursing
29 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
A nurse understands the meaning of entering the world of nursing research to be? (Select
all that apply.)
(A) A way of learning a unique language — Correct
(B) A way of using old experiences to learn — Correct
(C) A way of learning new laws and social customs — Correct
(D) A new way of using multiple languages — Correct
(E) A new way of evaluating situations — Correct
30 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
Which are components of evidence-based practice (EBP)? (Select all that apply.)
(A) Best research evidence — Correct
(B) Expert opinion consensus — Correct
(C) Patient circumstances and values — Correct
(D) Safe, cost-effective care — Correct
31 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
A nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is prepared to do which of the
following? (Select all that apply.)
7/8
33 questions
01 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which statement best describes evidence-based practice (EBP)?
(A) A combination of best research evidence, clinical expertise, and the needs and values
of patients — Correct
(B) A determination of the factors necessary to control patient responses to care and delivery of
care
(C) The development of population care guidelines applicable to all patients
(D) The utilization of quantitative and qualitative studies to enhance patient outcomes
02 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse is collecting data about the sleep patterns of breastfed babies as part of a
larger research study. Which research method will the nurse use when collecting data for
this study?
(A) Control
(B) Description — Correct
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction
03 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse is participating in a study and is collecting data identifying the number of obese
adults whose parents were also obese or overweight. Which research method is being
used in this study?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction — Correct
04 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse reviews a study in which adherence to an asthma action plan is compared
among groups of young adults who received different asthma education. Which research
method does this represent?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation — Correct
(D) Prediction
1/8
,05 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse manager is interested in learning which attitudes among staff nurses may indicate
relative risk of needle-stick injuries. To study this, the nurse manager will employ which
method of study?
(A) Control
(B) Description
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction — Correct
06 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which is the most important result of Florence Nightingale’s data collection and statistical
analysis during the Crimean War?
(A) Bringing awareness of the rigors of war to the general public in relation to care practices
(B) Developing a process for statistical analysis and nursing documentation
(C) Identifying and defining the role of nurses in modern health care
(D) Using clinical research to evaluate the need for sanitation, clean drinking water, and
adequate nutrition — Correct
07 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse participates in data collection in a study in which two different pain
management protocols are used with randomly assigned patients to measure differences
in postoperative recovery time. Which method of study is this?
(A) Control — Correct
(B) Correlation
(C) Description
(D) Explanation
08 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse reviews a study exploring experiences of nurses’ decision-making processes
regarding reporting a medical error. Which research method does this represent?
(A) Control
(B) Description — Correct
(C) Explanation
(D) Prediction
09 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The development of nursing theories and conceptual models in the late 1960s and 1970s
served to
2/8
, (A) determine the effectiveness of nursing interventions.
(B) establish the concept of evidence-based practice.
(C) provide funding for nursing research.
(D) provide direction for nursing research. — Correct
10 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) began to change its focus to
(A) funding nursing rather than medical research.
(B) evaluating outcomes rather than process studies.
(C) increasing the status and funding for nursing research. — Correct
(D) supporting the dissemination of nursing research.
11 MULTIPLE CHOICE
An emphasis of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Hospital
Designation Program for Excellence in Nursing is
(A) research and development of clinical practice guidelines.
(B) putting qualitative research into practice in clinical settings.
(C) using standard nursing care plans based on outcomes research.
(D) utilizing evidence-based practice in nursing. — Correct
12 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The lead agency designated to improve healthcare quality is
(A) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). — Correct
(B) American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
(C) Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN).
(D) National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR).
13 MULTIPLE CHOICE
To help fulfill the mission of the National Institute for Nursing Research—to promote and
improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations—a study may be
conducted that
(A) assesses the effectiveness of strategies for weight management in patients with type 2
diabetes. — Correct
(B) compares the attitudes of nurses toward clients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
(C) generates up-to-date nursing diagnoses reflecting the needs of clients with type 2 diabetes.
(D) reviews hospital nurses’ adherence to glucose-monitoring guidelines for patients with type 2
diabetes.
3/8
,14 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which best describes the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competency
for evidence-based practice (EBP)?
(A) Adhering to published guidelines to provide care for a specific population
(B) Empowering clients to choose among effective disease management strategies —
Correct
(C) Relying on expert knowledge to guide care plan development for an individual patient
(D) Using evidence gained solely from experimental studies to guide care
15 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Through knowledge gained from her phenomenological qualitative study identifying levels
of experience of professional nurses, Patricia Benner would identify which nurse as an
expert?
(A) A hospice nurse who values the unique wishes of each patient when providing palliative care
(B) A medical-surgical nurse who organizes care for a group of patients to ensure timely
administration of medications
(C) A neonatal intensive care nurse who is skilled in inserting peripherally inserted central
catheters
(D) A pediatric nurse who notes subtle changes and intervenes to prevent respiratory
failure — Correct
16 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which study exemplifies qualitative research?
(A) A study that evaluates appetite among residents of a long-term care facility and correlates this
data with whether or not residents are rooming together with their spouses
(B) A study that defines levels of appetite based on residents’ descriptions of hunger in a long-term
care facility
(C) A study that observes the interactions of spouses during mealtimes in a long-term care
facility — Correct
(D) A study that observes the effectiveness of spousal encouragement to eat on the residents’
quality of appetite in a long-term care facility
17 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which category of the quantitative research methods examines relationships and is
conducted to develop and refine explanatory knowledge for nursing practice?
(A) Descriptive research
(B) Correlational research — Correct
(C) Quasi-experimental research
(D) Experimental research
4/8
,18 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A common method of measurement used in qualitative research is
(A) scales.
(B) physiological measures.
(C) unstructured interviews. — Correct
(D) questionnaires.
19 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse researcher wants to know how well adolescent mothers can learn to manage their
children’s asthma and develops an initial study to explore and define perceptions of
asthma among this population. Which best describes this initial study?
(A) Correlational research
(B) Descriptive research — Correct
(C) Phenomenological research
(D) Outcomes research
20 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which research technique would be used by a nurse researcher who wishes to compare
bonding patterns of neonatal intensive care (NIC) infants to non-NIC infants to test
various theories about infant-parent bonding?
(A) Experimental
(B) Exploratory
(C) Grounded theory — Correct
(D) Quasi-experimental
21 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What type of qualitative research method would be used to describe and interpret a
culture and cultural behavior?
(A) Grounded theory
(B) Ethnographic research — Correct
(C) Exploratory-descriptive
(D) Phenomenological
22 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What type of study design would be used to evaluate patient satisfaction in an outpatient
clinic?
(A) Exploratory-descriptive research
(B) Outcomes research — Correct
5/8
, (C) Qualitative research
(D) Phenomenological research
23 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse researcher wishes to review a body of qualitative studies about women’s
attitudes toward health care to develop an overall interpretation of these findings. Which
type of review will the nurse researcher use?
(A) Meta-analysis
(B) Meta-synthesis — Correct
(C) Mixed-methods systematic review
(D) Systematic review
24 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which type of evaluation of research yields the most precise estimates of treatment
effects when describing results?
(A) Meta-analysis — Correct
(B) Meta-synthesis
(C) Mixed-methods systematic review
(D) Systematic review
25 MULTIPLE CHOICE
The nurse serves on a committee to develop a clinical protocol to guide dressing changes
for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) abscesses. Which is the most
important type of evidence to consider when formulating this protocol?
(A) Assertions from a panel of infectious disease physicians about existing protocols to treat this
organism
(B) A statistical review of experimental studies comparing various dressing change
protocols and patient outcomes — Correct
(C) A systematic review of all nursing and medical literature about the incidence of MRSA infection
and various dressing change protocols
(D) Studies identifying the correlations between variables such as dressing types and subsequent
infection rates
26 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Knowledge is acquired in nursing in a variety of ways. Which of the following describes
when one person credits another as the source of information?
(A) Borrowing
(B) Authority — Correct
(C) Traditions
6/8
, (D) Personal experience
27 MULTIPLE CHOICE
What role will a new nurse graduate who has a BSN expect to play in research?
(A) Appraising studies and implementing evidence-based guidelines and protocols —
Correct
(B) Developing, evaluating, and revising evidence-based guidelines and protocols
(C) None, since the BSN affords limited education on the research process
(D) Synthesizing findings and leading healthcare teams to make evidence-based changes
28 MULTIPLE CHOICE
A job description for a nurse position in a teaching hospital includes “coordinating
research teams to facilitate studies to generate knowledge about nursing actions.” Which
type of advanced nursing degree would be required for this position?
(A) Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP)
(B) Doctorate in Nursing (PhD) — Correct
(C) Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
(D) Post-Doctorate in Nursing
29 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
A nurse understands the meaning of entering the world of nursing research to be? (Select
all that apply.)
(A) A way of learning a unique language — Correct
(B) A way of using old experiences to learn — Correct
(C) A way of learning new laws and social customs — Correct
(D) A new way of using multiple languages — Correct
(E) A new way of evaluating situations — Correct
30 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
Which are components of evidence-based practice (EBP)? (Select all that apply.)
(A) Best research evidence — Correct
(B) Expert opinion consensus — Correct
(C) Patient circumstances and values — Correct
(D) Safe, cost-effective care — Correct
31 MULTIPLE CHOICE (MULTI-ANSWER)
A nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is prepared to do which of the
following? (Select all that apply.)
7/8
