EDAC Exam questions with verified answers
8 Key steps for the EBD process Ans✓✓✓Define evidence base goals
and objectives, find sources for evidence, critically interpret evidence,
create and innovate evidence-based design concepts, develop a
hypothesis, collect baseline measures, monitor implementation of design
and construction, measure post occupancy performance results
A project team is interested in reducing patient falls an increase in staff
satisfaction on an existing inpatient unit there are a variety of design
changes that could be made to achieve these goals these include
installation of a nonslip Lauren, I decentralize nurse station layout, and
handrails in the patient room. Given the limited budget what should the
project team do first to determine where to invest it's limited resources?
-select the design feature that is most in line with the evidence base
design goals
-review data to determine the cost of patient falls and complete a
business case
-conduct a critical review of the existing research for each option
-Mark up patient rooms that includes proposed design feature
Ans✓✓✓Conduct a critical review of the existing research for each
option
A project team wants a standardized patient rooms. Then hypothesize
that the implementation of the same handed rooms will improve
outcomes. When evaluating the results, what would be the best data to
review that demonstrates an improvement in clinical process?
,Length of stay reports
patient satisfactory surveys
medical error rates
healthcare associated infection rates Ans✓✓✓Medical error rates
A research team measured ambient noise levels in patient rooms while
simultaneously observing patient stress levels and monitoring the
duration of visits by family and friends. The teams results indicated a
high degree of association between excessive ambient noises, elevated
patient stress and short family visits. This is an example of which type of
study?
-retrospective
-correlational
-experimental
-ethnographic Ans✓✓✓Correlational
A researcher on the project team wants to make sure that a new
observation tool they developed has a high degree of realizability. How
should the researcher ensure the observation tool is reliable ?
(A) Submit the tool to the Institutional Review Board(IRB) for review.
(B) Test the tool in a variety of setting both within and outside a
hospital.
, (C) Ask a team of researchers to validate that the tool is measuring what
it's supposed to measure.
(D) Have several researchers use the tool within a specified timeframe in
place, with the same subjects and see if similar results are achieved.
Ans✓✓✓(D)
have several researchers use the tool within a specified timeframe in a
place with the same subjects and see if similar results are achieved.
A team of researchers collected data on patient and family stress, patient
length of stay, and overall satisfaction to compare a new observation
unit with windows to an existing observation unit without windows.
After collecting data they realize the new unit included a high tech nurse
call system design to improve patient and staff communication. Which
of the following should the team do before drawing conclusions?
-analyze the data for cofounding variables
-conduct focus groups with new staff
-conduct surveys with the existing staff
-Disregard the data and restart the data collection Ans✓✓✓Analyze the
data for confounding variables
After construction is completed the research team is prepared to collect
the post occupancy data. What should the team do prior to collecting the
data
-create the research hypothesis
8 Key steps for the EBD process Ans✓✓✓Define evidence base goals
and objectives, find sources for evidence, critically interpret evidence,
create and innovate evidence-based design concepts, develop a
hypothesis, collect baseline measures, monitor implementation of design
and construction, measure post occupancy performance results
A project team is interested in reducing patient falls an increase in staff
satisfaction on an existing inpatient unit there are a variety of design
changes that could be made to achieve these goals these include
installation of a nonslip Lauren, I decentralize nurse station layout, and
handrails in the patient room. Given the limited budget what should the
project team do first to determine where to invest it's limited resources?
-select the design feature that is most in line with the evidence base
design goals
-review data to determine the cost of patient falls and complete a
business case
-conduct a critical review of the existing research for each option
-Mark up patient rooms that includes proposed design feature
Ans✓✓✓Conduct a critical review of the existing research for each
option
A project team wants a standardized patient rooms. Then hypothesize
that the implementation of the same handed rooms will improve
outcomes. When evaluating the results, what would be the best data to
review that demonstrates an improvement in clinical process?
,Length of stay reports
patient satisfactory surveys
medical error rates
healthcare associated infection rates Ans✓✓✓Medical error rates
A research team measured ambient noise levels in patient rooms while
simultaneously observing patient stress levels and monitoring the
duration of visits by family and friends. The teams results indicated a
high degree of association between excessive ambient noises, elevated
patient stress and short family visits. This is an example of which type of
study?
-retrospective
-correlational
-experimental
-ethnographic Ans✓✓✓Correlational
A researcher on the project team wants to make sure that a new
observation tool they developed has a high degree of realizability. How
should the researcher ensure the observation tool is reliable ?
(A) Submit the tool to the Institutional Review Board(IRB) for review.
(B) Test the tool in a variety of setting both within and outside a
hospital.
, (C) Ask a team of researchers to validate that the tool is measuring what
it's supposed to measure.
(D) Have several researchers use the tool within a specified timeframe in
place, with the same subjects and see if similar results are achieved.
Ans✓✓✓(D)
have several researchers use the tool within a specified timeframe in a
place with the same subjects and see if similar results are achieved.
A team of researchers collected data on patient and family stress, patient
length of stay, and overall satisfaction to compare a new observation
unit with windows to an existing observation unit without windows.
After collecting data they realize the new unit included a high tech nurse
call system design to improve patient and staff communication. Which
of the following should the team do before drawing conclusions?
-analyze the data for cofounding variables
-conduct focus groups with new staff
-conduct surveys with the existing staff
-Disregard the data and restart the data collection Ans✓✓✓Analyze the
data for confounding variables
After construction is completed the research team is prepared to collect
the post occupancy data. What should the team do prior to collecting the
data
-create the research hypothesis
