NURS 205 MIDTERM-FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS & VERIFIED COMPLETE
ANSWERS 100%
The year Canada's first nursing research Centre was established - correct answer ✔✔1964
Research - correct answer ✔✔Systematic, rigorous, logical investigation that aims to answer
questions about nursing phenomena.
Phenomena - correct answer ✔✔Occurrences, circumstances, or facts that are perceptible by
the senses, i.e. experiences of and expressions of pain.
Significance of research to practice - correct answer ✔✔-expands body of scientific knowledge
-contributes to evidence-based practice
-allows practice to evolve
-maintains societal relevance
Evidence-informed nursing - correct answer ✔✔The incorporation of evidence from research
clinical expertise, client preferences, and other available resources to make decisions about
patients.
Evidence-informed practice - correct answer ✔✔Evidence-informed decision making is
continuous, interactive process involving the explicit, conscientious, and judicious consideration
of the best available evidence to provide care.
19th century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔-nursing became a formal discipline
-Florence Nightingale published "Notes on Nursing"
,-nursing schools began developing
20th century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔-emphasis on prepping nurses for
practice
-American Nurses Association publishes "Nursing Research"
-first master's program in Canada
-development of many nursing theories
-first federally funded grant for research
-doctoral programs emerge in the US
Canadian Research Priorities - correct answer ✔✔1. Nursing practice: context, populations,
interventions.
2. Outcomes: valid measurements, clinical judgments.
3. Research and practice link: develop a body of nursing knowledge.
21st century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔- Every nurse practicing in the 21st
century has a role to play in the research process.
5 CHSRF/CIHR chair awards are granted to nursing
-Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing to develop a national position paper on PhD in
nursing for Canada
-PhD programs in nursing are introduced in Canadian universities
Research priorities - correct answer ✔✔CIHR - enhanced pt experiences and outcomes through
health innovation ( where I apply for research money)
Consumer of research - correct answer ✔✔A nurse who reads research articles and
incorporates research findings into NS practices with ability to discriminate and evaluate
information logically.
,Paradigm - correct answer ✔✔Set of beliefs and practices, shared by communities of
researchers, that guide the knowledge development process.
describes the way people in a particular discipline think about the world. ( worldview)
Theoretical/empirical knowledge - correct answer ✔✔-referred to as scientific knowledge r/t
the practice of nursing ( Patients' experiences
Nurses' experiences
Delivery of nursing care & interventions related to nursing phenomena of interests
Health care policies, nursing policies)
-guide for evidence-informed practice
-concerned with developing and testing theories about how the world operates
-observes reality
Ontology - correct answer ✔✔The science of study of "being."
nature of reality
the science or study of being or existence and its relationships to nonexistence. ( deal with real)
- Refer to notion of truth
Objective truth - correct answer ✔✔what I hear and see to believe ( positivism)
Subjective truth - correct answer ✔✔something that the persons will tell me for me to believe
( constructivism )
, Methodology - correct answer ✔✔Discipline specific principles, rules, and procedures that
guide the research process.
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔Examined reality ( how individual understnad about the
knowledge)
- refers to theories
Deals with origins, nature and limits of knowledge, why and how we know somethings and what
constitutes our knowledge.
Addresses the issue of "truth."
Nature of Nursing knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Theoretical / Empirical knowledge
Personal knowledge
Ethical knowledge
Aesthetic knowledge
Experiential knowledge
Sociopolitical & Emancipatory knowledge ( environment)
Aim of inquiry - correct answer ✔✔Goals or specific objectives of the research.
Context - correct answer ✔✔Personal, social, and political environment in which phenomenon
of interest occurs.
Researcher values - correct answer ✔✔Personal beliefs of the researcher.
Nursing paradigms - correct answer ✔✔How philosophical questions are answered in nursing.
-post-positivist
-critical social
QUESTIONS & VERIFIED COMPLETE
ANSWERS 100%
The year Canada's first nursing research Centre was established - correct answer ✔✔1964
Research - correct answer ✔✔Systematic, rigorous, logical investigation that aims to answer
questions about nursing phenomena.
Phenomena - correct answer ✔✔Occurrences, circumstances, or facts that are perceptible by
the senses, i.e. experiences of and expressions of pain.
Significance of research to practice - correct answer ✔✔-expands body of scientific knowledge
-contributes to evidence-based practice
-allows practice to evolve
-maintains societal relevance
Evidence-informed nursing - correct answer ✔✔The incorporation of evidence from research
clinical expertise, client preferences, and other available resources to make decisions about
patients.
Evidence-informed practice - correct answer ✔✔Evidence-informed decision making is
continuous, interactive process involving the explicit, conscientious, and judicious consideration
of the best available evidence to provide care.
19th century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔-nursing became a formal discipline
-Florence Nightingale published "Notes on Nursing"
,-nursing schools began developing
20th century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔-emphasis on prepping nurses for
practice
-American Nurses Association publishes "Nursing Research"
-first master's program in Canada
-development of many nursing theories
-first federally funded grant for research
-doctoral programs emerge in the US
Canadian Research Priorities - correct answer ✔✔1. Nursing practice: context, populations,
interventions.
2. Outcomes: valid measurements, clinical judgments.
3. Research and practice link: develop a body of nursing knowledge.
21st century key events in nursing - correct answer ✔✔- Every nurse practicing in the 21st
century has a role to play in the research process.
5 CHSRF/CIHR chair awards are granted to nursing
-Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing to develop a national position paper on PhD in
nursing for Canada
-PhD programs in nursing are introduced in Canadian universities
Research priorities - correct answer ✔✔CIHR - enhanced pt experiences and outcomes through
health innovation ( where I apply for research money)
Consumer of research - correct answer ✔✔A nurse who reads research articles and
incorporates research findings into NS practices with ability to discriminate and evaluate
information logically.
,Paradigm - correct answer ✔✔Set of beliefs and practices, shared by communities of
researchers, that guide the knowledge development process.
describes the way people in a particular discipline think about the world. ( worldview)
Theoretical/empirical knowledge - correct answer ✔✔-referred to as scientific knowledge r/t
the practice of nursing ( Patients' experiences
Nurses' experiences
Delivery of nursing care & interventions related to nursing phenomena of interests
Health care policies, nursing policies)
-guide for evidence-informed practice
-concerned with developing and testing theories about how the world operates
-observes reality
Ontology - correct answer ✔✔The science of study of "being."
nature of reality
the science or study of being or existence and its relationships to nonexistence. ( deal with real)
- Refer to notion of truth
Objective truth - correct answer ✔✔what I hear and see to believe ( positivism)
Subjective truth - correct answer ✔✔something that the persons will tell me for me to believe
( constructivism )
, Methodology - correct answer ✔✔Discipline specific principles, rules, and procedures that
guide the research process.
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔Examined reality ( how individual understnad about the
knowledge)
- refers to theories
Deals with origins, nature and limits of knowledge, why and how we know somethings and what
constitutes our knowledge.
Addresses the issue of "truth."
Nature of Nursing knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Theoretical / Empirical knowledge
Personal knowledge
Ethical knowledge
Aesthetic knowledge
Experiential knowledge
Sociopolitical & Emancipatory knowledge ( environment)
Aim of inquiry - correct answer ✔✔Goals or specific objectives of the research.
Context - correct answer ✔✔Personal, social, and political environment in which phenomenon
of interest occurs.
Researcher values - correct answer ✔✔Personal beliefs of the researcher.
Nursing paradigms - correct answer ✔✔How philosophical questions are answered in nursing.
-post-positivist
-critical social
