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Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th Edition Woo Test Bank
ISBN-10:1496301463
ISBN-13:9781975109691
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Chapter 3. Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Chapter 4. Reading and Critiquing Research Articles
Chapter 5. Ethics in Research
Chapter 6. Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
Chapter 7. Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature
Chapter 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter 9. Quantitative Research Design
Chapter 10. Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies
Chapter 11. Qualitative Designs and Approaches
Chapter 12. Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies
Chapter 13. Mixed Methods and Other Special Types of Research
Chapter 14. Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data
Chapter 15. Interpretation and Clinical Significance in Quantitative Research
Chapter 16. Analysis of Qualitative Data
Chapter 17. Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research
Chapter 18. Systematic Reviews: Meta-Analysis and Metasynthesis
, Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th Edition Woo Test A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
Bank
C) Health promotion
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment D) Nursing education
What is the highest priority for the importance
1.
of research in the nursing profession?
Research findings provide evidence for Which topic most closely conforms to the
A) 6. priorities that have been suggested for future
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
nursing research?
Conduct research to better understand the
B) A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
context of nursing practice.
Document the role that nurses serve in B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study. Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
D)
various clinical specialties.
Which group would be best served by clinical
2. 7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators Verifying assumptions that are part of our
A)
B) Practicing nurses heritage.
C) Nurses' clients Developing specific predictions from general
B)
D) Healthcare policymakers principles.
Empirically testing observations that are made
C)
known through our senses.
In the United States, in what area does Forming generalizations from specific
3. D)
research play an important role in nursing? observations.
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
What is the ontological assumption of those
C) Nurses' personalities 8.
espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
D) Nurses' education
Objective reality and those natural
A)
phenomena are regular and orderly.
Phenomena are not haphazard and result from
What is the role of a consumer of nursing B)
4. prior causes.
research?
Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
A) Read research reports for relevant findings. C)
interpreted by humans.
Participate in generating evidence by doing
B) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
research. D)
construction of human minds.
Participate in journal club in a practice
C)
setting.
Solve clinical problems and make clinical
D) What is the epistemological assumption of
decisions. 9.
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
The researcher is objective and independent
A)
of those being studied.
What was the concern of most nursing studies
5. Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have
in the early 1900s? B)
antecedent causes.
, The researcher instructs those being studied to 14. What is a criticism of the scientific method?
C)
be objective in providing information. A) Deductive
Reality is not fixed, but is rather a B) Deterministic
D)
construction of human minds. C) Empirical
D) Reductionist
Which is not a characteristic of traditional
10.
scientific method? What is involved in naturalistic qualitative
A) Control over external factors. 15.
research?
Systematic measurement and observation of A) Involves deductive processes
B)
natural phenomena. B) Takes places in the field.
C) Deductive reasoning. Focuses on the idiosyncrasies of those being
Emphasis on a holistic view of a C)
D) studied.
phenomenon, studied in a rich context. Attempts to control the research context to
D) better understand the phenomenon being
studied.
11. What is empiricism?
Making generalizations from specific
A)
observations. A researcher wants to investigate the effect of
Deducing specific predictions from 16. patients' body position on blood pressure.
B)
generalizations. This is an example of what type of study?
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality. A) Qualitative
Verifying the assumptions on which the study B) Constructivist inquiry
D)
was based. C) Quantitative
Researcher preference of either quantitative or
D)
qualitative
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
A) Infallible
B) Holistic A researcher is studying the effect of massage
C) Systematic 17. on the alleviation of pain in cancer patients.
D) Flexible This is an example of what type of study?
A) Descriptive
B) Exploratory
Which of the following limits the power of C) Applied
13. the scientific method to answer questions D) Basic
about human life?
The necessity of departing from traditional
A)
beliefs. A researcher wants to study the process by
The difficulty of accurately measuring which people make decisions about seeking
B) 18.
complex human traits. treatment for infertility. What is the
C) The inability to control potential biases. researcher's paradigmatic orientation?
The shortage of theories about human A) Positivism
D)
behavior. B) Determinism
C) Empiricism
D) Naturalism
, 18. D
19. B
What is the continuum of participation on 20. A
19.
research?
A) Academics to practitioners Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
B) Consumers to producers Research utilization begins with empirical
C) Journalists to educators 1. findings for consideration in practice settings.
D) Mentors to novice nurses Where does evidence-based practice begin?
Integration of clinical judgments with
A)
research evidence
20. What is the goal of explanatory research? A desire to abandon decisions based on
B)
Understand the underpinnings of natural custom and authority opinion
A) phenomena and to explain systematic A search for the best possible information for
C)
relationships among them. addressing a clinical problem
Begins with the phenomenon of interest, but D) A critique of existing practices
rather than simply observing and describing
it, exploratory research investigates the full
B)
nature of the phenomenon, the manner in 2. What is indirect research utilization?
which it is manifested, and the other factors to A) Involves changes in nurses' thinking
which it is related. Involves the direct use of findings in giving
C) Study phenomena about which little is known. B)
patient care
Make predictions and to control phenomena C) Involves use of findings to persuade others
D)
based on research findings. Involves changes in patient thinking toward
D)
nurses
Answer Key The student nurse is constructing a
presentation on evidence-based practice.
1. A 3.
Which statement should be included in the
2. C introduction about evidence-based practice?
3. B Conscientious integration of current best
4. A A)
evidence with clinical expertise
5. D Utilization of nursing preferences in making
B)
6. B clinical decisions
7. B C) Theoretical problem-solving strategy
8. C Emphasis on decision making based on
D)
9. A custom
10. D
11. C
12. C Evidence-based practice typically involves
13. B weighing various types of evidence in an
14. D 4. effort to determine best evidence. Most
15. B evidence hierarchies put which systematic
review at the pinnacle?
16. B
A) Randomized controlled trials
17. C
Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th Edition Woo Test Bank
ISBN-10:1496301463
ISBN-13:9781975109691
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Chapter 3. Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Chapter 4. Reading and Critiquing Research Articles
Chapter 5. Ethics in Research
Chapter 6. Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
Chapter 7. Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature
Chapter 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter 9. Quantitative Research Design
Chapter 10. Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies
Chapter 11. Qualitative Designs and Approaches
Chapter 12. Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies
Chapter 13. Mixed Methods and Other Special Types of Research
Chapter 14. Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data
Chapter 15. Interpretation and Clinical Significance in Quantitative Research
Chapter 16. Analysis of Qualitative Data
Chapter 17. Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research
Chapter 18. Systematic Reviews: Meta-Analysis and Metasynthesis
, Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th Edition Woo Test A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
Bank
C) Health promotion
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment D) Nursing education
What is the highest priority for the importance
1.
of research in the nursing profession?
Research findings provide evidence for Which topic most closely conforms to the
A) 6. priorities that have been suggested for future
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
nursing research?
Conduct research to better understand the
B) A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
context of nursing practice.
Document the role that nurses serve in B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study. Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
D)
various clinical specialties.
Which group would be best served by clinical
2. 7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators Verifying assumptions that are part of our
A)
B) Practicing nurses heritage.
C) Nurses' clients Developing specific predictions from general
B)
D) Healthcare policymakers principles.
Empirically testing observations that are made
C)
known through our senses.
In the United States, in what area does Forming generalizations from specific
3. D)
research play an important role in nursing? observations.
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
What is the ontological assumption of those
C) Nurses' personalities 8.
espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
D) Nurses' education
Objective reality and those natural
A)
phenomena are regular and orderly.
Phenomena are not haphazard and result from
What is the role of a consumer of nursing B)
4. prior causes.
research?
Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
A) Read research reports for relevant findings. C)
interpreted by humans.
Participate in generating evidence by doing
B) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
research. D)
construction of human minds.
Participate in journal club in a practice
C)
setting.
Solve clinical problems and make clinical
D) What is the epistemological assumption of
decisions. 9.
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
The researcher is objective and independent
A)
of those being studied.
What was the concern of most nursing studies
5. Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have
in the early 1900s? B)
antecedent causes.
, The researcher instructs those being studied to 14. What is a criticism of the scientific method?
C)
be objective in providing information. A) Deductive
Reality is not fixed, but is rather a B) Deterministic
D)
construction of human minds. C) Empirical
D) Reductionist
Which is not a characteristic of traditional
10.
scientific method? What is involved in naturalistic qualitative
A) Control over external factors. 15.
research?
Systematic measurement and observation of A) Involves deductive processes
B)
natural phenomena. B) Takes places in the field.
C) Deductive reasoning. Focuses on the idiosyncrasies of those being
Emphasis on a holistic view of a C)
D) studied.
phenomenon, studied in a rich context. Attempts to control the research context to
D) better understand the phenomenon being
studied.
11. What is empiricism?
Making generalizations from specific
A)
observations. A researcher wants to investigate the effect of
Deducing specific predictions from 16. patients' body position on blood pressure.
B)
generalizations. This is an example of what type of study?
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality. A) Qualitative
Verifying the assumptions on which the study B) Constructivist inquiry
D)
was based. C) Quantitative
Researcher preference of either quantitative or
D)
qualitative
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
A) Infallible
B) Holistic A researcher is studying the effect of massage
C) Systematic 17. on the alleviation of pain in cancer patients.
D) Flexible This is an example of what type of study?
A) Descriptive
B) Exploratory
Which of the following limits the power of C) Applied
13. the scientific method to answer questions D) Basic
about human life?
The necessity of departing from traditional
A)
beliefs. A researcher wants to study the process by
The difficulty of accurately measuring which people make decisions about seeking
B) 18.
complex human traits. treatment for infertility. What is the
C) The inability to control potential biases. researcher's paradigmatic orientation?
The shortage of theories about human A) Positivism
D)
behavior. B) Determinism
C) Empiricism
D) Naturalism
, 18. D
19. B
What is the continuum of participation on 20. A
19.
research?
A) Academics to practitioners Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
B) Consumers to producers Research utilization begins with empirical
C) Journalists to educators 1. findings for consideration in practice settings.
D) Mentors to novice nurses Where does evidence-based practice begin?
Integration of clinical judgments with
A)
research evidence
20. What is the goal of explanatory research? A desire to abandon decisions based on
B)
Understand the underpinnings of natural custom and authority opinion
A) phenomena and to explain systematic A search for the best possible information for
C)
relationships among them. addressing a clinical problem
Begins with the phenomenon of interest, but D) A critique of existing practices
rather than simply observing and describing
it, exploratory research investigates the full
B)
nature of the phenomenon, the manner in 2. What is indirect research utilization?
which it is manifested, and the other factors to A) Involves changes in nurses' thinking
which it is related. Involves the direct use of findings in giving
C) Study phenomena about which little is known. B)
patient care
Make predictions and to control phenomena C) Involves use of findings to persuade others
D)
based on research findings. Involves changes in patient thinking toward
D)
nurses
Answer Key The student nurse is constructing a
presentation on evidence-based practice.
1. A 3.
Which statement should be included in the
2. C introduction about evidence-based practice?
3. B Conscientious integration of current best
4. A A)
evidence with clinical expertise
5. D Utilization of nursing preferences in making
B)
6. B clinical decisions
7. B C) Theoretical problem-solving strategy
8. C Emphasis on decision making based on
D)
9. A custom
10. D
11. C
12. C Evidence-based practice typically involves
13. B weighing various types of evidence in an
14. D 4. effort to determine best evidence. Most
15. B evidence hierarchies put which systematic
review at the pinnacle?
16. B
A) Randomized controlled trials
17. C
