NUR401 Exam Questions with Answers
Nursing Research - ✔✔§ Systematic inquiry to develop trustworthy evidence about issues of
importance to nurses and their clients
Clinical Nursing Research - ✔✔§ Nursing research designed to guide nursing PRACTICE
Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔o The use of best clinical evidence in making patient care
decisions
o The basis of nursing decisions
§ Influences many recent clinical practice changes
o Produces decisions that are clinically appropriate, cost effective, and result in positive client
outcomes
Archie Cochrane - ✔✔o Called for efforts to make research summaries about interventions
available to health care providers
o Systematic reviews
3 factors of EBP - ✔✔- Best Research Evidence
-Clinical Expertise
- Patients needs and Values
EBP is not - ✔✔- Not one size fits all approach to healthcare
- Not a cost cutting practice or method for rationing healthcare services
Problem Focused Triggers - ✔✔§ Risk Management Data
§ Process Improvement Data
§ Internal/External Benchmarking Data
, § Financial Data
§ Identification of Clinical Problem**
Knowledge Focused Triggers - ✔✔§ New Responsibilities or other Lit
§ National Agencies or Org standards and guidelines
§ Philosophies of care
§ Questions from institutional standards of committee
2 Kinds of Research - ✔✔1. Basic
2. Applied
Basic Research - ✔✔extending info for sake of knowledge
Applied Research - ✔✔Discovering solutions to immediate problems
4 Purposes of Research - ✔✔1- describe
2- explain
3-predict
4-control
Describe - ✔✔identify and understand nursing phenomoeon
ex. identify the incidiendce of infection in hc facilities
-non expiremental
-measure at least 1 thing
Explain - ✔✔clarify relationships among phenomena, identify possible reasons why events
occur
Nursing Research - ✔✔§ Systematic inquiry to develop trustworthy evidence about issues of
importance to nurses and their clients
Clinical Nursing Research - ✔✔§ Nursing research designed to guide nursing PRACTICE
Evidence Based Practice - ✔✔o The use of best clinical evidence in making patient care
decisions
o The basis of nursing decisions
§ Influences many recent clinical practice changes
o Produces decisions that are clinically appropriate, cost effective, and result in positive client
outcomes
Archie Cochrane - ✔✔o Called for efforts to make research summaries about interventions
available to health care providers
o Systematic reviews
3 factors of EBP - ✔✔- Best Research Evidence
-Clinical Expertise
- Patients needs and Values
EBP is not - ✔✔- Not one size fits all approach to healthcare
- Not a cost cutting practice or method for rationing healthcare services
Problem Focused Triggers - ✔✔§ Risk Management Data
§ Process Improvement Data
§ Internal/External Benchmarking Data
, § Financial Data
§ Identification of Clinical Problem**
Knowledge Focused Triggers - ✔✔§ New Responsibilities or other Lit
§ National Agencies or Org standards and guidelines
§ Philosophies of care
§ Questions from institutional standards of committee
2 Kinds of Research - ✔✔1. Basic
2. Applied
Basic Research - ✔✔extending info for sake of knowledge
Applied Research - ✔✔Discovering solutions to immediate problems
4 Purposes of Research - ✔✔1- describe
2- explain
3-predict
4-control
Describe - ✔✔identify and understand nursing phenomoeon
ex. identify the incidiendce of infection in hc facilities
-non expiremental
-measure at least 1 thing
Explain - ✔✔clarify relationships among phenomena, identify possible reasons why events
occur
