1. Which group is best served by clinical nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
2. Which sentence is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses has a master’s or doctorate degree?
B) What factors influence clients’ weight gain following a smoking cessation
intervention?
C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-based
practice?
D) What is the appropriate course of action when a nurse is faced with a moral
dilemma?
3. What goal is the highest priority for research in the nursing profession?
A) To generate evidence to inform nurses’ decisions and actions
B) To conduct research focused on the context of nursing practice
C) To document the role that nurses serve in society
D) To establish priorities for areas of study by nurse researchers
4. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role for
nursing?
A) Nurses’ opportunities for practicing internationally
B) Credentialing and status of nursing
C) Nurses’ salaries
D) Nurses’ education
5. What is the role of consumers of nursing research?
A) Reading research reports for findings that are relevant to their practice
B) Participating in generating evidence by doing research
C) Gathering research data from clients
D) Solving clinical problems and making clinical decisions
6. Which activity occurs in a journal club?
A) Development of an idea for a journal article
B) Presentation by a research article’s author about the article’s central ideas
C) Testing of participants on their comprehension of selected journal articles
D) Discussion of a research article regarding its relevance to practice
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, 7. Which emphasis was the focus of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
8. Which topic most closely conforms to the priorities that have been suggested for
nursing research in the future?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward professional growth
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover
D) Increased attainment of doctoral degrees within the nursing profession
9. A stronger evidence base for nurses can be developed through such confirmatory
strategies as:
A) interdisciplinary collaboration among health care professionals.
B) increased funding for nursing research.
C) replication of studies in new contexts.
D) development of innovative solutions to recurrent problems.
10. If nurses make decisions by following “unit culture” practices, they are using
which source of evidence?
A) Tradition and authority
B) Intuition
C) Logical reasoning
D) Disciplined research
11. What does the process of deductive reasoning entail?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our heritage
B) Developing specific predictions from general principles or theories
C) Drawing conclusions based on trial and error
D) Forming generalizations from specific observations
12. What is a major assumption in the positivist paradigm?
A) Reality is “out there” to be objectively studied, known, and understood.
B) Subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable.
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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A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
2. Which sentence is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses has a master’s or doctorate degree?
B) What factors influence clients’ weight gain following a smoking cessation
intervention?
C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-based
practice?
D) What is the appropriate course of action when a nurse is faced with a moral
dilemma?
3. What goal is the highest priority for research in the nursing profession?
A) To generate evidence to inform nurses’ decisions and actions
B) To conduct research focused on the context of nursing practice
C) To document the role that nurses serve in society
D) To establish priorities for areas of study by nurse researchers
4. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role for
nursing?
A) Nurses’ opportunities for practicing internationally
B) Credentialing and status of nursing
C) Nurses’ salaries
D) Nurses’ education
5. What is the role of consumers of nursing research?
A) Reading research reports for findings that are relevant to their practice
B) Participating in generating evidence by doing research
C) Gathering research data from clients
D) Solving clinical problems and making clinical decisions
6. Which activity occurs in a journal club?
A) Development of an idea for a journal article
B) Presentation by a research article’s author about the article’s central ideas
C) Testing of participants on their comprehension of selected journal articles
D) Discussion of a research article regarding its relevance to practice
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, 7. Which emphasis was the focus of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
8. Which topic most closely conforms to the priorities that have been suggested for
nursing research in the future?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward professional growth
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover
D) Increased attainment of doctoral degrees within the nursing profession
9. A stronger evidence base for nurses can be developed through such confirmatory
strategies as:
A) interdisciplinary collaboration among health care professionals.
B) increased funding for nursing research.
C) replication of studies in new contexts.
D) development of innovative solutions to recurrent problems.
10. If nurses make decisions by following “unit culture” practices, they are using
which source of evidence?
A) Tradition and authority
B) Intuition
C) Logical reasoning
D) Disciplined research
11. What does the process of deductive reasoning entail?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our heritage
B) Developing specific predictions from general principles or theories
C) Drawing conclusions based on trial and error
D) Forming generalizations from specific observations
12. What is a major assumption in the positivist paradigm?
A) Reality is “out there” to be objectively studied, known, and understood.
B) Subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable.
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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