NURS 641 ACTUAL FINAL PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following questions is part of appraising the credibility of a SR
A. Was the search for study reports comprehensive and unbiased?
B. Are there any reasons why conclusions might not apply to your setting?
C. Is the size of the clinical effect large enough to make a difference in pt well being
D. What topic or question did the SR address - ✔✔A. Was the search for study reports
comprehensive and unbiased?
✔✔What is min # of studies for a SR
A. 5
B. 10
C. 30
D. 2 - ✔✔D. 2
✔✔When searching pub med what is the main advantage of using MeSH terms?
A. Using them allows you to use the Boolean operators of AND, OR, NOT
B. using them retrieves all articles about the topic not just those with the exact word or
phrase
C. Limits the retrieval to research articles
D. You can use it when you dont know how to spell something - ✔✔B. using them
retrieves all articles about the topic not just those with the exact word or phrase
✔✔Which of the following sequences of actions would a project team perform to obtain
a comprehensive search on a topic of interest.
A. Identify a focused clinical question and give it to a librarian healthcare to search
CINAHL, PubMed and other databases he/she thinks appropriate
B Identify a clinical question and search CINAHL for SR on the topic
C. Identify a clinical question, muddle around in CINAHL or PubMed to get a sense of
the issues involved, focus the question and ask a healthcare librarian to conduct
searches - ✔✔C. Identify a clinical question, muddle around in CINAHL or PubMed to
get a sense of the issues involved, focus the question and ask a healthcare librarian to
conduct searches
✔✔What type of research evidence should an Evidence based protocol work group look
for first
A. A randomized clinical trial
B. An evidence based clinical practice guideline
C. A study with a large sample that tests an intervention
, D. A qualitative study - ✔✔B. An evidence based clinical practice guideline
✔✔When you as researcher are considering extraneous variables, the term used to
describe participants' awareness that they are being observed/studied is called:
A. The hawthorne effect
B. The observation effect
C. Rosenbaum effect
D. This variable has no name - ✔✔A. The hawthorne effect
✔✔Which of the following best describes the purpose of the descriptive study
A. To measure/describe the features or elements of a situation
B. To describe the research that has been done regarding a particular topic or issue
C. To create a descriptive model of the dynamics of a situation
D. To create a case study describing the experiences of a patient with a particular prob -
✔✔A. To measure/describe the features or elements of a situation
✔✔what is meant by control of extraneous variables
A. Research participants should refrain from expressing their thoughts until data
collection is over
B. Only measurement instruments with est levels of validity should be use
C. The intervention variable must be delivered by the researcher
D. Elimination, distribution, or holding steady variables that could influence results even
though they are not of interest in the study - ✔✔D. Elimination, distribution, or holding
steady variables that could influence results even though they are not of interest in the
study
✔✔Which of the following statements is true of psychosocial variables
A. Highly valid measure of them is not possible
B. Measurement of them is tricky and requires careful instrument development
C. They are extraneous variables in nursing research
D. They are best measured by physiological indicators - ✔✔B. Measurement of them is
tricky and requires careful instrument development
✔✔Which of the following variables is an interval level variable
A. Personality type
B. Comorbid conditions
C. Weight
D. Nursing intervention delivered at set times - ✔✔C. Weight
✔✔Which of the following is the most important characteristic of a sample
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following questions is part of appraising the credibility of a SR
A. Was the search for study reports comprehensive and unbiased?
B. Are there any reasons why conclusions might not apply to your setting?
C. Is the size of the clinical effect large enough to make a difference in pt well being
D. What topic or question did the SR address - ✔✔A. Was the search for study reports
comprehensive and unbiased?
✔✔What is min # of studies for a SR
A. 5
B. 10
C. 30
D. 2 - ✔✔D. 2
✔✔When searching pub med what is the main advantage of using MeSH terms?
A. Using them allows you to use the Boolean operators of AND, OR, NOT
B. using them retrieves all articles about the topic not just those with the exact word or
phrase
C. Limits the retrieval to research articles
D. You can use it when you dont know how to spell something - ✔✔B. using them
retrieves all articles about the topic not just those with the exact word or phrase
✔✔Which of the following sequences of actions would a project team perform to obtain
a comprehensive search on a topic of interest.
A. Identify a focused clinical question and give it to a librarian healthcare to search
CINAHL, PubMed and other databases he/she thinks appropriate
B Identify a clinical question and search CINAHL for SR on the topic
C. Identify a clinical question, muddle around in CINAHL or PubMed to get a sense of
the issues involved, focus the question and ask a healthcare librarian to conduct
searches - ✔✔C. Identify a clinical question, muddle around in CINAHL or PubMed to
get a sense of the issues involved, focus the question and ask a healthcare librarian to
conduct searches
✔✔What type of research evidence should an Evidence based protocol work group look
for first
A. A randomized clinical trial
B. An evidence based clinical practice guideline
C. A study with a large sample that tests an intervention
, D. A qualitative study - ✔✔B. An evidence based clinical practice guideline
✔✔When you as researcher are considering extraneous variables, the term used to
describe participants' awareness that they are being observed/studied is called:
A. The hawthorne effect
B. The observation effect
C. Rosenbaum effect
D. This variable has no name - ✔✔A. The hawthorne effect
✔✔Which of the following best describes the purpose of the descriptive study
A. To measure/describe the features or elements of a situation
B. To describe the research that has been done regarding a particular topic or issue
C. To create a descriptive model of the dynamics of a situation
D. To create a case study describing the experiences of a patient with a particular prob -
✔✔A. To measure/describe the features or elements of a situation
✔✔what is meant by control of extraneous variables
A. Research participants should refrain from expressing their thoughts until data
collection is over
B. Only measurement instruments with est levels of validity should be use
C. The intervention variable must be delivered by the researcher
D. Elimination, distribution, or holding steady variables that could influence results even
though they are not of interest in the study - ✔✔D. Elimination, distribution, or holding
steady variables that could influence results even though they are not of interest in the
study
✔✔Which of the following statements is true of psychosocial variables
A. Highly valid measure of them is not possible
B. Measurement of them is tricky and requires careful instrument development
C. They are extraneous variables in nursing research
D. They are best measured by physiological indicators - ✔✔B. Measurement of them is
tricky and requires careful instrument development
✔✔Which of the following variables is an interval level variable
A. Personality type
B. Comorbid conditions
C. Weight
D. Nursing intervention delivered at set times - ✔✔C. Weight
✔✔Which of the following is the most important characteristic of a sample
