1. Which group is best served by the development of a rigorous base of evidence for
nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
2. Which is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses have a master's or doctorate degree?
B) What factors contribute to clients' risk of falling during a hospitalization?
C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-based
practice?
D) What course of action do nursing students pursue when faced with a moral
dilemma?
3. Which is an especially important goal for the nursing profession?
A) Conducting research to better understand the context of nursing practice
B) Establishing a solid base of evidence for practice through disciplined research
C) Documenting the role nursing serves in society
D) Establishing research priorities
4. In several countries, research has come to play an important role for the nursing
profession with respect to:
A) providing opportunities to serve on important government policy-making boards.
B) credentialing and improving nurses' status.
C) strengthening nurses' bargaining power.
D) supporting better avenues for advanced degrees.
5. Consumers of research take which action?
A) Design studies
B) Undertake studies
C) Produce research
D) Read research
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 central idea of the article
C) Testing of participants on their comprehension of selected journal articles
D) Discussion of a research article regarding its merits and relevance to practice
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, 7. Which statement is true?
A) In the early 1900s, most nursing research focused on education, not nursing
practice.
B) Clinical nursing research has made steady progress since the work of Florence
Nightingale.
C) Several nursing research journals began publication in the late 1800s.
D) The National Institute of Nursing Research was established in the United States in
1943.
8. In the United States, which is a major source of funding for nursing research?
A) NINR
B) Magnet Recognition Program
C) Journal clubs
D) Sigma Theta Tau
9. Which is a likely trend for the future of nursing research?
A) Improving the methods for conducting research
B) Improving nurses' attitudes toward evidence-based practice
C) Enhancing the focus on the clinical significance of research findings
D) Enhancing nursing students' interest in conducting their own research
10. Which is a primary source for answering clinical questions for evidence-based
nursing?
A) Input from an authority
B) Intuition
C) Disciplined research
D) Nurses' clinical experience
11. What is a paradigm?
A) An assumption about the nature of the world
B) An antecedent cause of reality
C) A set of procedures for studying the world
D) A worldview, a general perspective
12. Which is a fundamental assumption of the positivist paradigm?
A) Reality is “out there” to be objectively studied, known, and understood.
B) Phenomena do not necessarily have an antecedent cause.
C) Reality is not orderly, but it is haphazard.
D) Reality is not a fixed entity.
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nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
2. Which is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses have a master's or doctorate degree?
B) What factors contribute to clients' risk of falling during a hospitalization?
C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-based
practice?
D) What course of action do nursing students pursue when faced with a moral
dilemma?
3. Which is an especially important goal for the nursing profession?
A) Conducting research to better understand the context of nursing practice
B) Establishing a solid base of evidence for practice through disciplined research
C) Documenting the role nursing serves in society
D) Establishing research priorities
4. In several countries, research has come to play an important role for the nursing
profession with respect to:
A) providing opportunities to serve on important government policy-making boards.
B) credentialing and improving nurses' status.
C) strengthening nurses' bargaining power.
D) supporting better avenues for advanced degrees.
5. Consumers of research take which action?
A) Design studies
B) Undertake studies
C) Produce research
D) Read research
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 central idea of the article
C) Testing of participants on their comprehension of selected journal articles
D) Discussion of a research article regarding its merits and relevance to practice
Page 1
, 7. Which statement is true?
A) In the early 1900s, most nursing research focused on education, not nursing
practice.
B) Clinical nursing research has made steady progress since the work of Florence
Nightingale.
C) Several nursing research journals began publication in the late 1800s.
D) The National Institute of Nursing Research was established in the United States in
1943.
8. In the United States, which is a major source of funding for nursing research?
A) NINR
B) Magnet Recognition Program
C) Journal clubs
D) Sigma Theta Tau
9. Which is a likely trend for the future of nursing research?
A) Improving the methods for conducting research
B) Improving nurses' attitudes toward evidence-based practice
C) Enhancing the focus on the clinical significance of research findings
D) Enhancing nursing students' interest in conducting their own research
10. Which is a primary source for answering clinical questions for evidence-based
nursing?
A) Input from an authority
B) Intuition
C) Disciplined research
D) Nurses' clinical experience
11. What is a paradigm?
A) An assumption about the nature of the world
B) An antecedent cause of reality
C) A set of procedures for studying the world
D) A worldview, a general perspective
12. Which is a fundamental assumption of the positivist paradigm?
A) Reality is “out there” to be objectively studied, known, and understood.
B) Phenomena do not necessarily have an antecedent cause.
C) Reality is not orderly, but it is haphazard.
D) Reality is not a fixed entity.
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