Test Bank Polit & Beck Canadian Essentials of Nursing Research 4th
Edition
By Kevin Woo
All Chapters (1-18) Verified Answers
ISBN: 9781975109691
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,Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice
Environment ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice........................................... 8
Chapter 3. Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research ......... 14
Chapter 4. Reading and Critiquing Research Articles ........................................................... 20
Chapter 5. Ethics in Research ............................................................................................................. 26
Chapter 6. Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses ......................... 32
Chapter 7. Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature .................... 40
Chapter 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks ............................................................ 47
Chapter 9. Quantitative Research Design..................................................................................... 54
Chapter 10. Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies ............................... 61
Chapter 11. Qualitative Designs and Approaches.................................................................... 69
Chapter 12. Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies .................................. 77
Chapter 13. Mixed Methods and Other Special Types of Research ................................. 84
Chapter 14. Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data ............................................................ 91
Chapter 15. Interpretation and Clinical Significance in Quantitative Research ...... 98
Chapter 16. Analysis of Qualitative Data .................................................................................... 105
Chapter 17. Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research ........................... 112
Chapter 18. Systematic Reviews: Meta-Analysis and Metasynthesis ........................... 119
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,Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice
Environment
1. What is the highest priority for the importance of research in the nursing
profession?
A) Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses' decisions and actions.
B) Conduct research to better understand the context of nursing practice.
C) Document the role that nurses serve in society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
2. Which group would be best served by clinical nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
3. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role in
nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Nurses' education
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing research?
A) Read research reports for relevant findings.
B) Participate in generating evidence by doing research.
C) Participate in journal club in a practice setting.
D) Solve clinical problems and make clinical
5. What was the concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
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, C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
6. Which topic most closely conforms to the
priorities that have been suggested for future nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in various clinical specialties.
7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our heritage.
B) Developing specific predictions from general principles.
C) Empirically testing observations that are made known through our senses.
D) Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
8. What is the ontological assumption of those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
A) Objective reality and those natural phenomena are regular and orderly.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard and result from prior causes.
C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemological assumption of those espousing a positivist
paradigm?
A) The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have antecedent causes.
C) The researcher instructs those being studied to be objective in providing
information.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a construction of human minds.
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Edition
By Kevin Woo
All Chapters (1-18) Verified Answers
ISBN: 9781975109691
~1~
,Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice
Environment ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice........................................... 8
Chapter 3. Key Concepts and Steps in Quantitative and Qualitative Research ......... 14
Chapter 4. Reading and Critiquing Research Articles ........................................................... 20
Chapter 5. Ethics in Research ............................................................................................................. 26
Chapter 6. Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses ......................... 32
Chapter 7. Finding and Reviewing Research Evidence in the Literature .................... 40
Chapter 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks ............................................................ 47
Chapter 9. Quantitative Research Design..................................................................................... 54
Chapter 10. Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative Studies ............................... 61
Chapter 11. Qualitative Designs and Approaches.................................................................... 69
Chapter 12. Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative Studies .................................. 77
Chapter 13. Mixed Methods and Other Special Types of Research ................................. 84
Chapter 14. Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data ............................................................ 91
Chapter 15. Interpretation and Clinical Significance in Quantitative Research ...... 98
Chapter 16. Analysis of Qualitative Data .................................................................................... 105
Chapter 17. Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research ........................... 112
Chapter 18. Systematic Reviews: Meta-Analysis and Metasynthesis ........................... 119
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,Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice
Environment
1. What is the highest priority for the importance of research in the nursing
profession?
A) Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses' decisions and actions.
B) Conduct research to better understand the context of nursing practice.
C) Document the role that nurses serve in society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
2. Which group would be best served by clinical nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
3. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role in
nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Nurses' education
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing research?
A) Read research reports for relevant findings.
B) Participate in generating evidence by doing research.
C) Participate in journal club in a practice setting.
D) Solve clinical problems and make clinical
5. What was the concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
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, C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
6. Which topic most closely conforms to the
priorities that have been suggested for future nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in various clinical specialties.
7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our heritage.
B) Developing specific predictions from general principles.
C) Empirically testing observations that are made known through our senses.
D) Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
8. What is the ontological assumption of those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
A) Objective reality and those natural phenomena are regular and orderly.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard and result from prior causes.
C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemological assumption of those espousing a positivist
paradigm?
A) The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have antecedent causes.
C) The researcher instructs those being studied to be objective in providing
information.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a construction of human minds.
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