Chapter 13 & Chapter 14 Review
Questions with Answers (2025-2026)
Updated.
A publication in nursing that includes just cognitive clustering summaries of important areas of
nursing research was initiated in 1983, with a volume being published each year since then. This
publication is:
Annual Review of Nursing Research.
Applied Nursing Research.
Nursing Research.
Nursing Research & Health - Answer Annual Review of Nursing Research.
Which of the following has been identified as a barrier to using research knowledge in nursing
practice?
Findings are communicated primarily to other researchers.
Nursing studies have not been adequately replicated.
Practitioners often do value research.
Researcher-originated studies often solve pressing clinical problems. - Answer Nursing
studies have not been adequately replicated.
What research utilization project in nursing was implemented in 1975 through 1980 to facilitate
the development of clinical protocols to direct the use of selected research findings in practice?
Conduct and Utilization of Research in Nursing
National Institute of Nursing Research Utilization
Nursing Research Utilization to Promote Evidenced-Based Practice
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Research Utilization - Answer Conduct
and Utilization of Research in Nursing (CURN)
A nurse practicing in a skilled nursing center heard about a new way to prevent falls in elderly
patients from the nurse practitioner providing care to patients in this center. The nurse worked
with the nurse practitioner to implement a protocol to prevent patient falls. This nurse's actions
are typical of:
early adopters.
, innovators.
laggards.
late majority. - Answer early adopters.
Nurses on a medical-surgical unit heard about a research-based protocol for preventing falls in
elderly patients. The nurses were very reluctant to change and chose to continue with their old
way of caring for patients and did not implement the fall protocol. These nurses' behaviors are
representative of a group that Rogers identifies as:
early adopters.
innovators.
laggards.
late majority - Answer laggards
Research findings can be implemented straight into practice as they were developed from
studies. What type of implementation is this?
Direct application
Indirect effects
Passive acceptance
Reinvention - Answer Direct application
A nurse summarized research findings in the area of injections and developed a protocol for
using these findings, with some changes based on his or her particular practice site. What type
of research findings implementation is demonstrated in this example?
Direct application
Indirect effects
Passive acceptance
Reinvention - Answer Reinvention
The nurse made a decision to use the protocol for giving injections that was recently
implemented. What type of research utilization decision is most representative of this nurse's
action?
Active rejection
Adoption
Questions with Answers (2025-2026)
Updated.
A publication in nursing that includes just cognitive clustering summaries of important areas of
nursing research was initiated in 1983, with a volume being published each year since then. This
publication is:
Annual Review of Nursing Research.
Applied Nursing Research.
Nursing Research.
Nursing Research & Health - Answer Annual Review of Nursing Research.
Which of the following has been identified as a barrier to using research knowledge in nursing
practice?
Findings are communicated primarily to other researchers.
Nursing studies have not been adequately replicated.
Practitioners often do value research.
Researcher-originated studies often solve pressing clinical problems. - Answer Nursing
studies have not been adequately replicated.
What research utilization project in nursing was implemented in 1975 through 1980 to facilitate
the development of clinical protocols to direct the use of selected research findings in practice?
Conduct and Utilization of Research in Nursing
National Institute of Nursing Research Utilization
Nursing Research Utilization to Promote Evidenced-Based Practice
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Research Utilization - Answer Conduct
and Utilization of Research in Nursing (CURN)
A nurse practicing in a skilled nursing center heard about a new way to prevent falls in elderly
patients from the nurse practitioner providing care to patients in this center. The nurse worked
with the nurse practitioner to implement a protocol to prevent patient falls. This nurse's actions
are typical of:
early adopters.
, innovators.
laggards.
late majority. - Answer early adopters.
Nurses on a medical-surgical unit heard about a research-based protocol for preventing falls in
elderly patients. The nurses were very reluctant to change and chose to continue with their old
way of caring for patients and did not implement the fall protocol. These nurses' behaviors are
representative of a group that Rogers identifies as:
early adopters.
innovators.
laggards.
late majority - Answer laggards
Research findings can be implemented straight into practice as they were developed from
studies. What type of implementation is this?
Direct application
Indirect effects
Passive acceptance
Reinvention - Answer Direct application
A nurse summarized research findings in the area of injections and developed a protocol for
using these findings, with some changes based on his or her particular practice site. What type
of research findings implementation is demonstrated in this example?
Direct application
Indirect effects
Passive acceptance
Reinvention - Answer Reinvention
The nurse made a decision to use the protocol for giving injections that was recently
implemented. What type of research utilization decision is most representative of this nurse's
action?
Active rejection
Adoption
