RESEARCH APPRAISING EVIDENCE FOR
NURSING PRACTICE 10TH EDITION POLIT
COMPLETE GUIDE UPDATED 2024
Chapter 1
Which of the following groups would bebest
1. served by the development of a scientific base
for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
2. An especially important goal for the
nursing profession is to:
A) Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice
B) Establish a base of evidence for practice
through disciplined research
C) Document the role nursing serves in
society
D) Establish research priorities
Which of the following would not be acurrent
3. priority for clinical nursing research?
A) Pain management
B) Health promotion
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Prevention of illness
4. Most nursing studies before 1950 focusedon:
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical interventions
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
5. To those espousing a naturalistic
paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A) A fixed reality exists in nature for humansto
understand
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RESEARCH APPRAISING EVIDENCE FOR
NURSING PRACTICE 10TH EDITION POLIT
COMPLETE GUIDE UPDATED 2024
B) The nature of reality has changed over
time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and