Chapter 1
Which of the following groups would be
1. best served by the development of a
scientific base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
An especially important goal for the
2.
nursing profession is to:
m
Conduct research to better understand the
A)
context of nursing practice
co
Establish a base of evidence for practice
B)
through disciplined research
.
ep
Document the role nursing serves in
C)
society
pr
D) Establish research priorities
st
Which of the following would not be a
te
3. current priority for clinical nursing
ng
research?
A) Pain management
B) Health promotion
si
C) Nurses' personalities
ur
D) Prevention of illness
yn
Most nursing studies before 1950 focused
.m
4.
on:
A) Client satisfaction
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B) Clinical interventions
w
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
w
To those espousing a naturalistic
5.
paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A fixed reality exists in nature for humans
A)
to understand
The nature of reality has changed over
B)
time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and
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multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically
To those espousing a positivist paradigm,
6.
a fundamental belief is that:
The researcher is objective and
A)
independent of those being studied.
The researcher cannot interact with those
B)
being studied.
The researcher instructs those being
m
C) studied to be objective in providing
information.
co
The distance between the researcher and
D) those being researched is minimized to
.
ep
enhance the interactive process.
pr
The traditional scientific method is not
st
7. characterized by which of the following
attributes?
te
A) Control over external factors
ng
Systematic measurement and observation
B)
of natural phenomena
Testing of hunches deduced from theory
si
C)
or prior research
ur
Emphasis on a holistic view of a
D)
phenomenon, studied in a rich context
yn
.m
8. Empiricism refers to:
Making generalizations from specific
A)
w
observations
w
Deducing specific predictions from
B)
generalizations
w
Gathering evidence about real-world
C)
phenomena through the senses
Verifying the assumptions on which the
D)
study was based
A hallmark of the scientific method is that
9.
it is:
A) Rigorous
Which of the following groups would be
1. best served by the development of a
scientific base for nursing practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Health care policymakers
An especially important goal for the
2.
nursing profession is to:
m
Conduct research to better understand the
A)
context of nursing practice
co
Establish a base of evidence for practice
B)
through disciplined research
.
ep
Document the role nursing serves in
C)
society
pr
D) Establish research priorities
st
Which of the following would not be a
te
3. current priority for clinical nursing
ng
research?
A) Pain management
B) Health promotion
si
C) Nurses' personalities
ur
D) Prevention of illness
yn
Most nursing studies before 1950 focused
.m
4.
on:
A) Client satisfaction
w
B) Clinical interventions
w
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
w
To those espousing a naturalistic
5.
paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A fixed reality exists in nature for humans
A)
to understand
The nature of reality has changed over
B)
time
C) Reality is multiply constructed and
, Chapter 1
multiply interpreted by humans
D) Reality cannot be studied empirically
To those espousing a positivist paradigm,
6.
a fundamental belief is that:
The researcher is objective and
A)
independent of those being studied.
The researcher cannot interact with those
B)
being studied.
The researcher instructs those being
m
C) studied to be objective in providing
information.
co
The distance between the researcher and
D) those being researched is minimized to
.
ep
enhance the interactive process.
pr
The traditional scientific method is not
st
7. characterized by which of the following
attributes?
te
A) Control over external factors
ng
Systematic measurement and observation
B)
of natural phenomena
Testing of hunches deduced from theory
si
C)
or prior research
ur
Emphasis on a holistic view of a
D)
phenomenon, studied in a rich context
yn
.m
8. Empiricism refers to:
Making generalizations from specific
A)
w
observations
w
Deducing specific predictions from
B)
generalizations
w
Gathering evidence about real-world
C)
phenomena through the senses
Verifying the assumptions on which the
D)
study was based
A hallmark of the scientific method is that
9.
it is:
A) Rigorous
