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,Which is an example of a clinical nursing research b. What factors contribute to clients' risk of falling during a hospitalization?
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?
Which goal is the highest priority for research in the a. To generate evidence to inform nurses' decisions and actions
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
In several countries, research in health care settings has b. credentialing and improving nurses' status.
come to play an important role in
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
What is the role of consumers of nursing research? d. Reading research reports to find evidence that is relevant to nursing practice
a. Generating evidence by undertaking studies
b. Gathering information from clients that can be used
in research
c. Coming up with ideas for studies
d. Reading research reports to find evidence that is
relevant to nursing practice
Which activity occurs in a journal club? d. Discussion of a research article regarding its merits and relevance to
a. Development of an idea for a journal article practice
b. Presentation by the author of a research article 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 merits
and relevance to practice
, Which statement is true? a. In the early 1900s, most nursing research focused on education, not nursing
a. In the early 1900s, most nursing research focused on practice.
education, not nursing
practice.
b. Clinical nursing research has made steady progress
since the work of Florence
Nightingale.
c. d. Several nursing research journals began
publication in the late 1800s.
The National Institute of Nursing Research was
established in the United States in
1943.
In the United States, a major source of funding for a. NINR.
nursing research is:
a. NINR.
b. Magnet Recognition Program.
c. journal clubs.
d. Sigma Theta Tau.
Which is a likely trend for the future of nursing c. Enhancing the applicability of research evidence to individual patients
research?
a. Improving the methods for conducting research
b. Improving nurses' attitudes toward evidence-based
practice
c. Enhancing the applicability of research evidence to
individual patients
d. Enhancing nursing students' interest in conducting
their own research
Which is a compelling source for answering clinical c. Disciplined research
questions in evidence-based nursing?
a. Input from an authorit
b. Intuition
c. Disciplined research
d. Nurses' clinical experience
If nurses make clinical decisions by following "unit a. Tradition and authority
culture" practices, they are using which
source of knowledge?
a. Tradition and authority
b. Intuition
c. Disciplined research
d. Trial and error
What is a paradigm? d. A worldview, a general perspective
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