SET 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ nursing research. Answer: a scientific process that validates and
refines existing knowledges and generates new knowledge that
directly and indirectly influences nursing practice
◉ inductive reasoning. Answer: reasoning from specific to general
◉ personal experience. Answer: gaining knowledge by being
personally involved in a situation, such as providing care to patients
in ICU
◉ deductive reasoning. Answer: reasoning from general to specific
or from a general premise to a particular situation
◉ description. Answer: knowledge generated from research that
includes evidence for identifying and understanding the nature of
nursing phenomena for practice
◉ intuition. Answer: insight or understanding of a situation or event
as a whole that usually cannot be logically explained
,◉ explanation. Answer: knowledge generated from research that
clarifies relationships among variables.
◉ outcomes research. Answer: an important scientific methodology
that was developed to examine the end results of patient care.
◉ prediction. Answer: knowledge generated from research that
enables one to estimate the probability go a specific outcome in a
given situation
◉ borrowing. Answer: the appropriation and use of knowledge from
other fields or disciplines to guide nursing practice
◉ role modeling. Answer: learning by imitating the behaviors of an
expert and the process of teaching less-experienced professionals by
demonstrating model behaviors.
◉ reasoning. Answer: processing and organizing ideas to reach
conclusions and examples include problematic and logistics
◉ Evidence based practice. Answer: the conscientious integration of
best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values and
needs in the delivery of high quality, cost-effective health care
, ◉ clinical expertise. Answer: knowledge and skills of the health care
professional providing care and is determined for a nurse by years
of clinical experience, current knowledge of research and clinical
literature, and educational preparation.
◉ Best research evidence. Answer: the strongest empirical
knowledge available generated from the synthesis of quality study
findings to address a practice problem
◉ evidence based guidelines. Answer: rigorous explicit clinical
guidelines developed based on the best research evidence available
in that area
◉ critical appraisal of research. Answer: careful examination of all
aspects of study to judge its strengths, limitations, meaning and
significance
◉ systematic review. Answer: structured, comprehensive synthesis
of quantitative and outcomes studies and meta-analysis in a
particular health care area to determine the best research evidence
available for expert clinicians to use to promote evidence-based
practice