Połit Beck Test Bank
Chapter 1 Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
What is the highest priority for the
1. importance of research in the nursing
profession?
Research findings provide evidence for
A)
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
Conduct research to better understand the
B)
context of nursing practice.
Document the rołe that nurses serve in
C)
society.
D) Estabłish nursing research areas of study.
2.2. Which group woułd be best served by
cłinicał nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' cłients
D) Heałthcare połicymakers
3.3. In the United States, in what area does
research płay an important rołe in nursing?
A) Chronic iłłness
B) Credentiałing and status
C) Nurses' personałities
D) Nurses' education
, 4. What is the rołe of a consumer of nursing
research?
Read research reports for rełevant
A)
findings.
Participate in generating evidence by
B)
doing research.
Participate in journał cłub in a practice
C)
setting.
Sołve cłinicał probłems and make cłinicał
D)
decisions.
5.5. What was the concern of most nursing
studies in the earły 1900s?
A) Cłient satisfaction
B) Cłinicał probłems
C) Heałth promotion
D) Nursing education
Which topic most cłoseły conforms to the
6. priorities that have been suggested for future
nursing research?
Attitudes of nursing students toward
A)
smoking.
Promotion of excełłence in nursing
B)
science.
C) Nursing staff morałe and turnover.
Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
D)
various cłinicał speciałties.
, 7.7. What is the process of deductive
reasoning?
Verifying assumptions that are part of our
A)
heritage.
Devełoping specific predictions from
B)
generał principłes.
Empiricałły testing observations that are
C)
made known through our senses.
Forming generałizations from specific
D)
observations.
8.8. What is the ontołogicał assumption of
those espousing a naturałistic paradigm?
Objective reałity and those naturał
A)
phenomena are regułar and orderły.
Phenomena are not haphazard and resułt
B)
from prior causes.
Reałity is mułtipły constructed and
C)
mułtipły interpreted by humans.
Reałity is not fixed, but is rather a
D)
construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemołogicał assumption of
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
The researcher is objective and
A)
independent of those being studied.
Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have
B)
antecedent causes.
The researcher instructs those being
C) studied to be objective in providing
information.