Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

NURSING RESEARCH
EXAM 2025

1. Nursing research is a scientific process that:
A. Focuses only on client satisfaction.
B. Describes past nursing theories.
✅ C. Validates existing knowledge, refines existing knowledge, and generates new
knowledge.
D. Repeats previously established research.



2. Evidence-based practice in nursing should be based:
A. On personal experience of the caregiver.
✅ B. On the synthesis of findings from a collection of research studies addressing nursing
practice.
C. On single case reports.
D. On client opinions only.



3. Which of the following is a synonym for the concept of research?
A. Data entry
✅ B. Systematic inquiry
C. Random observation
D. Trial and error



4. What are the three abstract thought processes important to nursing?
A. Logic, reasoning, and calculation
✅ B. Intuition, role modeling, and reasoning
C. Emotion, observation, and memory
D. Teaching, writing, and presentation



5. What is the role of intuition in the research process?
✅ A. Intuition may be valuable in linking ideas while interpreting findings.


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,B. Intuition replaces data collection.
C. Intuition eliminates the need for evidence.
D. Intuition is used only in quantitative studies.



6. Which type of reasoning is represented in the following example?
Premise: Clients with untreated right-sided heart failure experience shortness of breath.
Observation: Mr. Jones experiences shortness of breath.
✅ A. Deductive reasoning
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Logical reasoning
D. Empirical reasoning



7. Which type of reasoning moves from the specific to the general?
✅ A. Inductive reasoning
B. Deductive reasoning
C. Clinical reasoning
D. Empirical reasoning



8. The following statement illustrates what type of reasoning?
“An altered level of comfort is experienced with facial surgery. Therefore, all surgeries result in
an altered level of comfort.”
✅ A. Inductive reasoning
B. Deductive reasoning
C. Conceptual reasoning
D. Logical reasoning



9. Research is conducted for which of the following reasons?
✅ A. To test theory, to develop new knowledge, and to generate theory.
B. To confirm personal opinions.
C. To collect random data.
D. To summarize textbooks.



10. What is the most significant way of acquiring knowledge to develop an empirical knowledge
base for nursing practice?
✅ A. Research
B. Tradition


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, C. Authority
D. Trial and error



11. Who is identified as the first nursing researcher?
✅ A. Florence Nightingale
B. Dorothea Dix
C. Virginia Henderson
D. Hildegard Peplau



12. For nursing as a discipline to be effective in research, what should be the focus of research-
directed activity?
✅ A. Creating a culture within nursing that values, uses, and supports research.
B. Conducting research individually.
C. Limiting research to hospitals.
D. Following outdated theories.



13. Which research methodologies are used to generate nursing knowledge?
✅ A. Outcomes research, qualitative research, and quantitative research.
B. Historical and survey research only.
C. Experimental research only.
D. Correlational methods exclusively.



14. Which of the following characteristics is not descriptive of quantitative research?
✅ A. It is used to develop a theory.
B. It uses numerical data.
C. It relies on statistical analysis.
D. It emphasizes objectivity.



15. Which characteristics are descriptive of quantitative research?
✅ A. Basic elements of analysis are numbers; data are analyzed statistically; and
generalization of findings is important.
B. Focuses on lived experiences.
C. Conducted only through interviews.
D. Relies solely on intuition.




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