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Chapter1.Introductionto NursingResearchinanEvidence-BasedPracticeEnvironmentChapter2.
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h Fundamentals ofEvidence-Based Nursing Practice
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Chapter3. KeyConcepts andStepsinQuantitative andQualitativeResearchChapter
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4. Readingand Critiquing Research
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h ArticlesChapter5.Ethics inResearch h h




Chapter 6. Research Problems, Research Questions, and
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h HypothesesChapter7.FindingandReviewingResearch Evidencein the h h h h h h h h




h LiteratureChapter 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks Chapter
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9. Quantitative ResearchDesign
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Chapter 10. Sampling and Data Collection in Quantitative
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h StudiesChapter 11. Qualitative Designs and Approaches Chapter
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h 12. Sampling and Data Collection in Qualitative StudiesChapter
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h 13. Mixed Methods and Other Special Types of ResearchChapter
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h 14. StatisticalAnalysis ofQuantitative Data
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h Chapter15.InterpretationandClinicalSignificance


inQuantitativeResearchChapter 16. Analysis ofQualitative Data
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h Chapter17.Trustworthiness andIntegrityinQualitativeResearch
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h Chapter18.SystematicReviews:Meta-AnalysisandMetasynthesis
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice
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Environment
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What is the highest priority for the
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importance h




of research in the nursing profession?
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Research findings provide evidence for
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informing nurses' decisions and actions. h h h h




B) Conduct research to better understand the h h h h h




context of nursing practice.
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C) Document the role that nurses serve in society. h h h h h h h




D) Establish nursing research areas of study. h h h h h




Which group would be best served by clinical
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nursing research? h




A) Nursing administrators h




B) Practicing nurses h




C) Nurses' clients h




D) Healthcare policymakers h




In the United States, in what area does
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research play an important role in nursing? h h h h h h




A) Chronic illness h




B) Credentialing and status h h




C) Nurses' personalities h




D) Nurses' education h




What is the role ofa consumer of
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nursingresearch? .z




A) Read researchreports for relevant findings.
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B) Participate in generating evidence bydoing h h h h h




research.
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Participate in journal club ina practice
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setting.
Solve clinical problems and make clinical
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decisions.



5. What was the concern of most nursing
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studiesin the early 1900s?
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, A) Client satisfaction h




B) Clinical problems h




C) Health promotion h




D) Nursing education h




Which topic most closely conforms to h h h h h




6. thepriorities that have been suggested
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futurenursing research? h




A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking. h h h h h




B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science. h h h h h




C) Nursing staff morale and turnover. h h h h




D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in h h h h h




various clinical specialties.
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7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
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Verifying assumptions that are part ofour
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heritage.
Developing specific predictions from general
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principles.
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Empirically testing observations that are
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made h




known through our senses. h h h




D) Forming generalizations fromspecific h h h




observations.



8. What is the ontological assumption of those
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espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
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A) Objective reality and those natural h h h h




phenomena are regular and orderly. h h h h




Phenomena are not haphazard and result
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prior causes. h




C) Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
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interpreted by humans.
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Realityis not fixed,but is rather a
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construction of human minds. h h h




9. What is the epistemological assumption of
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those espousing a positivist paradigm?
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A) The researcher is objective and independent
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of those being studied.
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Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather
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have h




antecedent causes. h