Test Bank for Polit & Beck Canadian Nursing Research complete
questions and verified correct answers
1. Importance of research in nursing: Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses'
decisions and actions.
2. Best served group by clinical nursing research: Nurses' clients.
3. Area where research plays an important role in nursing (US): Nurses' education.
4. Role of a consumer of nursing research: Read research reports for relevant findings.
5. Concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s: Nursing education.
6. Topic conforming to future nursing research priorities: Promotion of excellence in
nursing science.
7. Process of deductive reasoning: Developing specific predictions from general principles.
8. Ontological assumption of naturalistic paradigm: Reality is multiply constructed and mul-
tiply interpreted by humans.
9. Epistemological assumption of positivist paradigm: The researcher is objective and inde-
pendent of those being studied.
10. Characteristic not of traditional scientific method: Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
11. Definition of empiricism: Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
12. Hallmark of the scientific method: Systematic.
13. Limitation of scientific method to answer questions about human life: The
diflculty of accurately measuring complex human traits.
14. Criticism of the scientific method: Reductionist.
15. Naturalistic qualitative research: Takes place in the field.
16. Type of study investigating effect of patients' body position on blood pres-
sure: Quantitative.
17. Type of study on effect of massage on pain alleviation in cancer patients: Ap-
plied.
18. Researcher's paradigmatic orientation studying treatment decisions for in-
fertility: Naturalism.
19. Continuum of participation in research: Consumers to producers.
20. Goal of explanatory research: Understand the underpinnings of natural phenomena and to explain
systematic relationships among them.
21. Where evidence-based practice begins: Integration of clinical judgments with research evi-
dence.
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22. Desire behind evidence-based practice: A desire to abandon decisions based on custom and
authority opinion.
23. Search for evidence-based practice: A search for the best possible information for addressing a
clinical problem.
24. Changes in nurses' thinking: Involves changes in nurses' thinking
25. Direct use of findings in patient care: Involves the direct use of findings in giving patient care
26. Use of findings to persuade others: Involves use of findings to persuade others
27. Changes in patient thinking toward nurses: Involves changes in patient thinking toward
nurses
28. Evidence-based practice introduction statement: Conscientious integration of current best
evidence with clinical expertise
29. Best evidence hierarchy: Most evidence hierarchies put meta-analyses of multiple clinical trials at the
pinnacle
30. Research utilization start: Uses findings of a study that are related to the previous research of the topic
31. Limiting researchers for evidence-based practice: Conducting high-quality, methodolog-
ically sound studies
32. Major barrier to evidence-based practice: The fact that many clinical nurses are not academi-
cally prepared to critically evaluate nursing research studies
33. Care bundles: Set of interventions to treat or prevent a cluster of symptoms
34. Metasynthesis: Qualitative, narrative approach to integration of a study
35. Systematic reviews database: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
36. Clinical practice guidelines: Give general recommendations for evidence-based decision making
37. Comprehensive reference resource: Clinical Evidence
38. Background question in evidence-based practice: General, foundational questions about
a clinical issue
39. PICOT components not always needed: P and C
40. First step in putting research into practice: Framing an answerable clinical question
41. Individual evidence-based practice efforts: Tend to be less formalized approach than organi-
zational evidence-based practice
42. AGREE Instrument scale: 4-point scale
43. Collaborative research example: A pediatric RN undertakes a study of the ettect of low birth weight
on infants' cognitive development
questions and verified correct answers
1. Importance of research in nursing: Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses'
decisions and actions.
2. Best served group by clinical nursing research: Nurses' clients.
3. Area where research plays an important role in nursing (US): Nurses' education.
4. Role of a consumer of nursing research: Read research reports for relevant findings.
5. Concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s: Nursing education.
6. Topic conforming to future nursing research priorities: Promotion of excellence in
nursing science.
7. Process of deductive reasoning: Developing specific predictions from general principles.
8. Ontological assumption of naturalistic paradigm: Reality is multiply constructed and mul-
tiply interpreted by humans.
9. Epistemological assumption of positivist paradigm: The researcher is objective and inde-
pendent of those being studied.
10. Characteristic not of traditional scientific method: Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
11. Definition of empiricism: Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
12. Hallmark of the scientific method: Systematic.
13. Limitation of scientific method to answer questions about human life: The
diflculty of accurately measuring complex human traits.
14. Criticism of the scientific method: Reductionist.
15. Naturalistic qualitative research: Takes place in the field.
16. Type of study investigating effect of patients' body position on blood pres-
sure: Quantitative.
17. Type of study on effect of massage on pain alleviation in cancer patients: Ap-
plied.
18. Researcher's paradigmatic orientation studying treatment decisions for in-
fertility: Naturalism.
19. Continuum of participation in research: Consumers to producers.
20. Goal of explanatory research: Understand the underpinnings of natural phenomena and to explain
systematic relationships among them.
21. Where evidence-based practice begins: Integration of clinical judgments with research evi-
dence.
, Test Bank for Polit & Beck Canadian Nursing Research complete
questions and verified correct answers
22. Desire behind evidence-based practice: A desire to abandon decisions based on custom and
authority opinion.
23. Search for evidence-based practice: A search for the best possible information for addressing a
clinical problem.
24. Changes in nurses' thinking: Involves changes in nurses' thinking
25. Direct use of findings in patient care: Involves the direct use of findings in giving patient care
26. Use of findings to persuade others: Involves use of findings to persuade others
27. Changes in patient thinking toward nurses: Involves changes in patient thinking toward
nurses
28. Evidence-based practice introduction statement: Conscientious integration of current best
evidence with clinical expertise
29. Best evidence hierarchy: Most evidence hierarchies put meta-analyses of multiple clinical trials at the
pinnacle
30. Research utilization start: Uses findings of a study that are related to the previous research of the topic
31. Limiting researchers for evidence-based practice: Conducting high-quality, methodolog-
ically sound studies
32. Major barrier to evidence-based practice: The fact that many clinical nurses are not academi-
cally prepared to critically evaluate nursing research studies
33. Care bundles: Set of interventions to treat or prevent a cluster of symptoms
34. Metasynthesis: Qualitative, narrative approach to integration of a study
35. Systematic reviews database: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
36. Clinical practice guidelines: Give general recommendations for evidence-based decision making
37. Comprehensive reference resource: Clinical Evidence
38. Background question in evidence-based practice: General, foundational questions about
a clinical issue
39. PICOT components not always needed: P and C
40. First step in putting research into practice: Framing an answerable clinical question
41. Individual evidence-based practice efforts: Tend to be less formalized approach than organi-
zational evidence-based practice
42. AGREE Instrument scale: 4-point scale
43. Collaborative research example: A pediatric RN undertakes a study of the ettect of low birth weight
on infants' cognitive development
