NUR 342 Final questions with complete solutions 2025..

NUR 342 Final questions with complete
solutions 2025.



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Telephone interviews are most often used to provide the best quality data for survey
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research - ANSWER: false - personal interviews are
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which research involves an intervention? - ANSWER: clinical trials
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during which phase of a full clinical trial would an efficacy study be done? - ANSWER:
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phase III
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an obstetrical nurse wants to improve fetal monitoring practices on the unit by
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conducting a EBP project. what is the first step this nurse should take? - ANSWER:
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formulate a clinical question on fetal monitoring practices
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what are the steps individual nurses can apply research evidence into practice? -
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ANSWER: 1. search for relevant research evidence
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2. formulate a clinical research 3. assess effectiveness
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4. integrate evidence into practice with other factors
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5. appraise and synthesize the evidence
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a group of nurses have implemented a new evidence-based protocol related to
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postoperative patient assessment and achieved successful outcome based on the
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evaluations. what is the most appropriate next step for this project? - ANSWER: tell
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others about the results of their project and disseminate via presentation and/or
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publication
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Ms. MP question - should she start taking a form of probiotic to prevent this problem?
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Choose the best clinical question. - ANSWER: in patients taking antibiotics antibiotics,
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are probiotics helpful in preventing diarrhea?
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Outpatient PT department - will this bracelet help her hip pain? Choose the best
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clinical question. - ANSWER: do magnets help control pain in patients with
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osteoarthritis?
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what is the outcome (O component): what is the effect of relaxation therapy versus
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biofeedback on the functional ability of patients with rheumatoid arthritis? - ANSWER:
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functional ability
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Peripheral IV catheter question - to improve the patient experience , you want to look
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at he evidence for using dry versus moist heat for IV catheterization. choose the best
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PubMed search strategy to address the clinical question. - ANSWER: Search: heat
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and catheter* limited to RCT
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if you want specific information about the sample as inclusion and exclusion criteria,
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you rbest approach will be to look at which section? - ANSWER: Methods
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in which section of a research article would you find evidence to support your clinical
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practice? - ANSWER: Results
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when searching for research articles as evidence, we rely primarily on: - ANSWER:
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primary sources
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the acronym IMRAD refers to: - ANSWER: organization of a research article/report
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into four main sections
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what component is a key aspect of trustworthiness in qualitative research? -
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ANSWER: credibility
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random and blinding are examples of: - ANSWER: bias reduction or avoidance
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subjects were asked to fill out an exercise survey. what type of data collection method
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was applied? - ANSWER: self-report questionnaire
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a data collector sat in a grocery store to see grocery shoppers' reactions to a new
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food product. what type of data collection method was applied? - ANSWER:
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observation
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computerized vs. manual self-monitoring - ANSWER: quasi - experimental nn nn nn nn nn nn nn nn




participants in a study were randomized... the design of the study was: - ANSWER:
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RCT
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what is the major difference between a RCT and quasi-experimental design? -
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ANSWER: random assignment
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the criteria for causal relationship include: - ANSWER: there is a correlation between
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the cause and effect, the cause must happen first, the relationship between the
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cause and effect cannot be explained by a third variable
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a nurse researcher is interested in the effect radiation exposure... the study design is:
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- ANSWER: case-control
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what is the major difference between a case control study and a cohort? - ANSWER:
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the case-control study is retrospective; whereas the cohort study is prospective
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a group of nurses with depression is identified and matched to a group of nurses
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without depression... - ANSWER: case control
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patients were recruited from an orthopedic surgery practice and were randomly
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assigned to a pharmacologic therapy group and placebo group. - ANSWER: RCT
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an in-depth description of the hospital experience of one patient's transition from
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surgical unit to surgical ICU following a complicated abdominal surgery was reported.
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- ANSWER: case study
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a survey was administered to college students to ascertain their perceptions about
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their accessibility of learning resources on campus. - ANSWER: cross-sectional
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a survey is administered to college students to ask about their career plans after
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graduation. This same group of students os then contacted again 2 years after their
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graduation to administer a follow-up survey asking about their career choices. -
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ANSWER: prospective cohort
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a researcher calls every 5th person on the michigan yellow page to participate in
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his/her study. this type of sampling is: - ANSWER: systematic random sampling
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Mr. W went to a grocery store and asked the first 50 grocery shoppers who walked
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into the grocery store to participate in his study. - ANSWER: convenience sampling
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which of the following are data collection methods for qualitative studies? - ANSWER:
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review of personal diaries, semi-structured interview, focus groups
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what type of qualitative design is more appropriate if a researcher is interested in
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developing a set of interrelated concepts? - ANSWER: grounded theory
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if you want to know what it is like to be a mother of 2 chronically ill children, what type
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of qualitative design will you use? - ANSWER: phenomenolgy
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