Test Bank for Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice – Questions & Answers

Nursing,/.Research,/.Generating,/.and,/.Assessing,/.Evidence,/.for,/.Nursing,/.Practice,/.11th,/.Editi
on,/.Polit,/.Beck,/.Test,/.Bank

Chapter,/.1,/.Introduction,/.to,/.Nursing,/.Research,/.in,/.an,/.Evidence-Based,/.Practice,/.Environment


What,/.is,/.the,/.highest,/.priority,/.for,/.the,/.impo
1. rtance,/.of,/.research,/.in,/.the,/.nursing,/.professio
n?
Research,/.findings,/.provide,/.evidence,/.for,/.i
A)
nforming,/.nurses',/.decisions,/.and,/.actions.

Conduct,/.research,/.to,/.better,/.understand,/.the,/
B)
.context,/.of,/.nursing,/.practice.


Document,/.the,/.role,/.that,/.nurses,/.serve,/.in,/.so
C)
ciety.
D) Establish,/.nursing,/.research,/.areas,/.of,/.study.




Which,/.group,/.would,/.be,/.best,/.served,/.by,/.cli
2.
nical,/.nursing,/.research?
A) Nursing,/.administrators
B) Practicing,/.nurses

C) Nurses',/.clients
D) Healthcare,/.policymakers



In,/.the,/.United,/.States,,/.in,/.what,/.area,/.does,/.
3.
research,/.play,/.an,/.important,/.role,/.in,/.nursing
?

,A) Chronic,/.illness

B) Credentialing,/.and,/.status
C) Nurses',/.personalities

D) Nurses',/.education

What,/.is,/.the,/.role,/.of,/.a,/.consumer,/.of,/.nursin
4.
g,/.research?
Read,/.research,/.reports,/.for,/.relevant,/.findin
A)
gs.
Participate,/.in,/.generating,/.evidence,/.by,/.do
B)
ing,/.research.
Participate,/.in,/.journal,/.club,/.in,/.a,/.practice,/.se
C)
tting.

Solve,/.clinical,/.problems,/.and,/.make,/.clinical,/
D)
.decisions.




What,/.was,/.the,/.concern,/.of,/.most,/.nursing,/.st
5.
udies,/.in,/.the,/.early,/.1900s?
A) Client,/.satisfaction
B) Clinical,/.problems

C) Health,/.promotion
D) Nursing,/.education



Which,/.topic,/.most,/.closely,/.conforms,/.to,/.t
6. he,/.priorities,/.that,/.have,/.been,/.suggested,/.
for,/.future,/.nursing,/.research?
Attitudes,/.of,/.nursing,/.students,/.toward,/.smok
A)
ing.
Promotion,/.of,/.excellence,/.in,/.nursing,/.scie
B)
nce.

,C) Nursing,/.staff,/.morale,/.and,/.turnover.
Number,/.of,/.doctorate,/.prepared,/.nurses,/.in,/.v
D)
arious,/.clinical,/.specialties.

, What,/.is,/.the,/.process,/.of,/.deductive,/.reason
7.
ing?
Verifying,/.assumptions,/.that,/.are,/.part,/.of,/.our,/
A)
.heritage.


Developing,/.specific,/.predictions,/.from,/.gene
B)
ral,/.principles.
Empirically,/.testing,/.observations,/.that,/.are,/.
C)
made,/.known,/.through,/.our,/.senses.

Forming,/.generalizations,/.from,/.specific,/.obs
D)
ervations.



What,/.is,/.the,/.ontological,/.assumption,/.of,/.
8.
those,/.espousing,/.a,/.naturalistic,/.paradigm?
Objective,/.reality,/.and,/.those,/.natural,/.pheno
A)
mena,/.are,/.regular,/.and,/.orderly.
Phenomena,/.are,/.not,/.haphazard,/.and,/.result,/.f
B)
rom,/.prior,/.causes.
Reality,/.is,/.multiply,/.constructed,/.and,/.mult
C)
iply,/.interpreted,/.by,/.humans.
Reality,/.is,/.not,/.fixed,,/.but,/.is,/.rather,/.a,/.constr
D)
uction,/.of,/.human,/.minds.



What,/.is,/.the,/.epistemological,/.assumption,/.of
9.
,/.those,/.espousing,/.a,/.positivist,/.paradigm?


The,/.researcher,/.is,/.objective,/.and,/.indepe
A)
ndent,/.of,/.those,/.being,/.studied.
Phenomena,/.are,/.not,/.haphazard,,/.but,/.rather,/.
B)
have,/.antecedent,/.causes.
The,/.researcher,/.instructs,/.those,/.bein
C) g,/.studied,/.to,/.be,/.objective,/.in,/.provi
ding,/.information.