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Chapter 1 Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
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What is the highest priority for the im
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1. portance of research in the nursing prof
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ession?
Research findings provide evidence for
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A)
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
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Conduct research to better understand th
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e context of nursing practice.
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Document the role that nurses serve in
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society.

D) Establish nursing research areas of stud
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Which group would be best served by
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clinical nursing research?
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A) Nursing administrators
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In the United States, in what area doe
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s research play an important role in nur
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sing?
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,C) Nurses' personalities
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What is the role of a consumer of nurs
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4.
ing research?
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Read research reports for relevant find
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ings.
Participate in generating evidence by
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doing research.
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Participate in journal club in a practice
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setting.
Solve clinical problems and make clinic
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al decisions.
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What was the concern of most nursing
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studies in the early 1900s?
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A) Client satisfaction
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Which topic most closely conforms to
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6. the priorities that have been suggested
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for future nursing research?
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Attitudes of nursing students toward sm
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oking.
Promotion of excellence in nursing sci
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ence.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
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Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
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various clinical specialties.
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, What is the process of deductive reas
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oning?
Verifying assumptions that are part of o
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ur heritage.
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Developing specific predictions from gen
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eral principles.
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Empirically testing observations that are
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C)
made known through our senses.
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Forming generalizations from specific ob
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servations.



What is the ontological assumption o
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f those espousing a naturalistic paradi
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gm?
Objective reality and those natural phen
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omena are regular and orderly.
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Phenomena are not haphazard and result
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from prior causes.
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Reality is multiply constructed and m
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ultiply interpreted by humans.
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Reality is not fixed, but is rather a con
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What is the epistemological assumption
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of those espousing a positivist paradig
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m?
The researcher is objective and indep
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endent of those being studied.
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Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather
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have antecedent causes.
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