Nursing Research & Advanced Practice: Test
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Section 1: Foundations of Nursing Research (Q1-20)
Q1: What is the primary purpose of nursing research?
A) To generate medical diagnoses
B) To improve patient outcomes and nursing practice (✓)
C) To replace physician-led research
D) To focus solely on theoretical knowledge
Q2: Which of the following best describes Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?
A) Using only physician recommendations
B) Integrating best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values (✓)
C) Relying solely on tradition and experience
D) Using only qualitative research studies
Q3: The first step in the EBP process is:
A) Formulating a clinical question (✓)
B) Searching for literature
C) Implementing findings
D) Evaluating outcomes
Q4: A well-formulated PICO(T) question includes all EXCEPT:
A) Patient/Population
B) Intervention/Issue
C) Comparison
D) Nurse’s opinion (✓)
Q5: Which research design is best for determining cause-and-effect relationships?
A) Descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Experimental/Randomized Controlled Trial (✓)
D) Phenomenological
Q6: Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) primarily ensure:
A) Research funding
B) Ethical protection of human subjects (✓)
,C) Statistical accuracy
D) Rapid publication
Q7: Informed consent in research must include:
A) Guarantee of benefit
B) Anonymity assurance in all cases
C) Explanation of risks and benefits (✓)
D) Payment for participation
Q8: Which is a characteristic of quantitative research?
A) Uses narrative data
B) Seeks to understand lived experiences
C) Tests hypotheses using statistics (✓)
D) Uses purposive sampling
Q9: Which is a characteristic of qualitative research?
A) Large sample sizes
B) Focus on numerical data
C) Seeks depth and meaning (✓)
D) Uses random assignment
Q10: A researcher observes hand hygiene practices without intervening. This is:
A) Experimental design
B) Quasi-experimental design
C) Observational/Descriptive design (✓)
D) Grounded theory
Q11: The variable that is manipulated in an experiment is the:
A) Dependent variable
B) Extraneous variable
C) Independent variable (✓)
D) Confounding variable
Q12: Reliability in research refers to:
A) Truthfulness of findings
B) Consistency of measurements (✓)
C) Applicability to other settings
D) Depth of data
Q13: Validity in research refers to:
A) Accuracy and truthfulness of findings (✓)
,B) Ease of data collection
C) Cost-effectiveness
D) Speed of analysis
Q14: Which sampling method gives every member of the population an equal chance of
selection?
A) Convenience sampling
B) Purposive sampling
C) Quota sampling
D) Simple random sampling (✓)
Q15: A literature review in research serves to:
A) Prove the researcher’s hypothesis
B) Identify gaps in existing knowledge (✓)
C) Replace primary data collection
D) Guarantee funding
Q16: Which level of evidence is considered strongest in traditional hierarchies?
A) Expert opinion
B) Case-control studies
C) Systematic reviews of RCTs (✓)
D) Qualitative studies
Q17: Generalizability refers to:
A) Internal validity
B) Applicability of findings to other populations/settings (✓)
C) Ethical soundness
D) Statistical significance
Q18: Which is an example of a primary source in research?
A) A textbook summarizing a study
B) A literature review article
C) The original published research report (✓)
D) An editorial commentary
Q19: A hypothesis is:
A) A proven fact
B) A testable prediction about relationships between variables (✓)
C) The same as a research question
D) Always non-directional
, Q20: The “T” in PICO(T) stands for:
A) Treatment
B) Theory
C) Timeframe (✓)
D) Technique
Section 2: Research Methodology & Design (Q21-40)
Q21: Which design is used to explore the effectiveness of an intervention without random
assignment?
A) True experimental
B) Quasi-experimental (✓)
C) Descriptive correlational
D) Ethnographic
Q22: A study examining the relationship between nurse staffing levels and patient fall rates is:
A) Experimental
B) Correlational (✓)
C) Qualitative
D) Historical
Q23: In a double-blind RCT, who is unaware of group assignment?
A) The participants only
B) The researchers only
C) Both participants and researchers (✓)
D) The statistician only
Q24: Which qualitative approach focuses on understanding cultural patterns?
A) Phenomenology
B) Grounded theory
C) Ethnography (✓)
D) Case study
Q25: Which qualitative approach aims to develop theories grounded in data?
A) Phenomenology
B) Grounded theory (✓)
C) Ethnography
D) Historical research
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Section 1: Foundations of Nursing Research (Q1-20)
Q1: What is the primary purpose of nursing research?
A) To generate medical diagnoses
B) To improve patient outcomes and nursing practice (✓)
C) To replace physician-led research
D) To focus solely on theoretical knowledge
Q2: Which of the following best describes Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?
A) Using only physician recommendations
B) Integrating best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values (✓)
C) Relying solely on tradition and experience
D) Using only qualitative research studies
Q3: The first step in the EBP process is:
A) Formulating a clinical question (✓)
B) Searching for literature
C) Implementing findings
D) Evaluating outcomes
Q4: A well-formulated PICO(T) question includes all EXCEPT:
A) Patient/Population
B) Intervention/Issue
C) Comparison
D) Nurse’s opinion (✓)
Q5: Which research design is best for determining cause-and-effect relationships?
A) Descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Experimental/Randomized Controlled Trial (✓)
D) Phenomenological
Q6: Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) primarily ensure:
A) Research funding
B) Ethical protection of human subjects (✓)
,C) Statistical accuracy
D) Rapid publication
Q7: Informed consent in research must include:
A) Guarantee of benefit
B) Anonymity assurance in all cases
C) Explanation of risks and benefits (✓)
D) Payment for participation
Q8: Which is a characteristic of quantitative research?
A) Uses narrative data
B) Seeks to understand lived experiences
C) Tests hypotheses using statistics (✓)
D) Uses purposive sampling
Q9: Which is a characteristic of qualitative research?
A) Large sample sizes
B) Focus on numerical data
C) Seeks depth and meaning (✓)
D) Uses random assignment
Q10: A researcher observes hand hygiene practices without intervening. This is:
A) Experimental design
B) Quasi-experimental design
C) Observational/Descriptive design (✓)
D) Grounded theory
Q11: The variable that is manipulated in an experiment is the:
A) Dependent variable
B) Extraneous variable
C) Independent variable (✓)
D) Confounding variable
Q12: Reliability in research refers to:
A) Truthfulness of findings
B) Consistency of measurements (✓)
C) Applicability to other settings
D) Depth of data
Q13: Validity in research refers to:
A) Accuracy and truthfulness of findings (✓)
,B) Ease of data collection
C) Cost-effectiveness
D) Speed of analysis
Q14: Which sampling method gives every member of the population an equal chance of
selection?
A) Convenience sampling
B) Purposive sampling
C) Quota sampling
D) Simple random sampling (✓)
Q15: A literature review in research serves to:
A) Prove the researcher’s hypothesis
B) Identify gaps in existing knowledge (✓)
C) Replace primary data collection
D) Guarantee funding
Q16: Which level of evidence is considered strongest in traditional hierarchies?
A) Expert opinion
B) Case-control studies
C) Systematic reviews of RCTs (✓)
D) Qualitative studies
Q17: Generalizability refers to:
A) Internal validity
B) Applicability of findings to other populations/settings (✓)
C) Ethical soundness
D) Statistical significance
Q18: Which is an example of a primary source in research?
A) A textbook summarizing a study
B) A literature review article
C) The original published research report (✓)
D) An editorial commentary
Q19: A hypothesis is:
A) A proven fact
B) A testable prediction about relationships between variables (✓)
C) The same as a research question
D) Always non-directional
, Q20: The “T” in PICO(T) stands for:
A) Treatment
B) Theory
C) Timeframe (✓)
D) Technique
Section 2: Research Methodology & Design (Q21-40)
Q21: Which design is used to explore the effectiveness of an intervention without random
assignment?
A) True experimental
B) Quasi-experimental (✓)
C) Descriptive correlational
D) Ethnographic
Q22: A study examining the relationship between nurse staffing levels and patient fall rates is:
A) Experimental
B) Correlational (✓)
C) Qualitative
D) Historical
Q23: In a double-blind RCT, who is unaware of group assignment?
A) The participants only
B) The researchers only
C) Both participants and researchers (✓)
D) The statistician only
Q24: Which qualitative approach focuses on understanding cultural patterns?
A) Phenomenology
B) Grounded theory
C) Ethnography (✓)
D) Case study
Q25: Which qualitative approach aims to develop theories grounded in data?
A) Phenomenology
B) Grounded theory (✓)
C) Ethnography
D) Historical research
