Evidence-Based Practice - 2026 Nursing Primer: Practice Test 2
(Units 8-13) - Questions with Correct Answers
100 questions
1. Memoing in grounded theory involves:
A. Sending emails to participants
B. Writing analytic notes about codes, categories and emerging relationships
C. Taking minutes
D. Counting words
Correct Answer: B. Writing analytic notes about codes, categories and emerging relationships
Rationale: Memos trace theoretical development. They support the audit trail.
2. Ethical issues specific to qualitative research include:
A. No ethical issues
B. Only randomization ethics
C. Protecting confidentiality when using quotes and managing emotional distress during
interviews
D. Only placebo use
Correct Answer: C. Protecting confidentiality when using quotes and managing emotional
distress during interviews
Rationale: Rich data can identify participants. Researchers plan support for distress.
3. Reflexivity means that researchers:
A. Ignore their influence
B. Avoid writing about themselves
C. Critically examine how their own background and assumptions influence the research
D. Use only numbers
Correct Answer: C. Critically examine how their own background and assumptions influence
the research
Rationale: Reflexive journals document reflection. Transparency improves rigor.
,4. Content analysis in qualitative research involves:
A. Systematically categorizing text data to identify patterns, sometimes with counts
B. Measuring blood levels
C. Running ANOVA
D. Conducting surgery
Correct Answer: A. Systematically categorizing text data to identify patterns, sometimes with
counts
Rationale: It can be qualitative or quantitative. Hsieh and Shannon described approaches.
5. Integration in mixed-methods research may be displayed using:
A. Separate unrelated reports
B. Only charts
C. Joint displays that show quantitative and qualitative findings side by side
D. Only quotes
Correct Answer: C. Joint displays that show quantitative and qualitative findings side by side
Rationale: Joint displays make integration explicit. They support meta-inferences.
6. Phenomenology focuses on:
A. Developing theory from data
B. Describing a cultural group
C. Testing an intervention
D. The lived experience of a phenomenon from participants' perspectives
Correct Answer: D. The lived experience of a phenomenon from participants' perspectives
Rationale: Husserl and Heidegger shaped phenomenology. In-depth interviews are typical.
,7. Field notes in qualitative research are used to:
A. Calculate statistics
B. Record observations, context and the researcher's impressions during data collection
C. Replace transcripts
D. Report results only
Correct Answer: B. Record observations, context and the researcher's impressions during data
collection
Rationale: They capture nonverbal and contextual data. They support analysis and reflexivity.
8. Interpretive description, developed by Thorne, is a qualitative approach designed to:
A. Test hypotheses
B. Develop formal theory only
C. Generate clinically relevant knowledge for applied disciplines such as nursing
D. Describe cultures only
Correct Answer: C. Generate clinically relevant knowledge for applied disciplines such as
nursing
Rationale: It bridges description and interpretation. Findings aim to inform practice.
9. Credibility in qualitative research refers to:
A. Generalizability
B. Statistical significance
C. Sample size
D. Confidence in the truth of the findings
Correct Answer: D. Confidence in the truth of the findings
Rationale: Strategies include prolonged engagement, triangulation and member checking. It
parallels internal validity.
, 10. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design:
A. Collects qualitative data first
B. Collects both simultaneously
C. Collects quantitative data first, then qualitative data to explain the results
D. Uses no qualitative data
Correct Answer: C. Collects quantitative data first, then qualitative data to explain the results
Rationale: Qualitative follow-up explains unexpected findings. It is common in nursing.
11. Bracketing in descriptive phenomenology refers to:
A. Setting aside the researcher's preconceptions to understand participants' experiences
B. Placing quotes in brackets
C. Excluding participants
D. Statistical adjustment
Correct Answer: A. Setting aside the researcher's preconceptions to understand participants'
experiences
Rationale: Bracketing aims for openness. Interpretive phenomenology acknowledges
preconceptions instead.
12. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves:
A. Researchers working alone
B. No community input
C. Equitable partnership with community members throughout the research process
D. Only laboratory work
Correct Answer: C. Equitable partnership with community members throughout the research
process
Rationale: CBPR builds trust and relevance. It supports health equity.
(Units 8-13) - Questions with Correct Answers
100 questions
1. Memoing in grounded theory involves:
A. Sending emails to participants
B. Writing analytic notes about codes, categories and emerging relationships
C. Taking minutes
D. Counting words
Correct Answer: B. Writing analytic notes about codes, categories and emerging relationships
Rationale: Memos trace theoretical development. They support the audit trail.
2. Ethical issues specific to qualitative research include:
A. No ethical issues
B. Only randomization ethics
C. Protecting confidentiality when using quotes and managing emotional distress during
interviews
D. Only placebo use
Correct Answer: C. Protecting confidentiality when using quotes and managing emotional
distress during interviews
Rationale: Rich data can identify participants. Researchers plan support for distress.
3. Reflexivity means that researchers:
A. Ignore their influence
B. Avoid writing about themselves
C. Critically examine how their own background and assumptions influence the research
D. Use only numbers
Correct Answer: C. Critically examine how their own background and assumptions influence
the research
Rationale: Reflexive journals document reflection. Transparency improves rigor.
,4. Content analysis in qualitative research involves:
A. Systematically categorizing text data to identify patterns, sometimes with counts
B. Measuring blood levels
C. Running ANOVA
D. Conducting surgery
Correct Answer: A. Systematically categorizing text data to identify patterns, sometimes with
counts
Rationale: It can be qualitative or quantitative. Hsieh and Shannon described approaches.
5. Integration in mixed-methods research may be displayed using:
A. Separate unrelated reports
B. Only charts
C. Joint displays that show quantitative and qualitative findings side by side
D. Only quotes
Correct Answer: C. Joint displays that show quantitative and qualitative findings side by side
Rationale: Joint displays make integration explicit. They support meta-inferences.
6. Phenomenology focuses on:
A. Developing theory from data
B. Describing a cultural group
C. Testing an intervention
D. The lived experience of a phenomenon from participants' perspectives
Correct Answer: D. The lived experience of a phenomenon from participants' perspectives
Rationale: Husserl and Heidegger shaped phenomenology. In-depth interviews are typical.
,7. Field notes in qualitative research are used to:
A. Calculate statistics
B. Record observations, context and the researcher's impressions during data collection
C. Replace transcripts
D. Report results only
Correct Answer: B. Record observations, context and the researcher's impressions during data
collection
Rationale: They capture nonverbal and contextual data. They support analysis and reflexivity.
8. Interpretive description, developed by Thorne, is a qualitative approach designed to:
A. Test hypotheses
B. Develop formal theory only
C. Generate clinically relevant knowledge for applied disciplines such as nursing
D. Describe cultures only
Correct Answer: C. Generate clinically relevant knowledge for applied disciplines such as
nursing
Rationale: It bridges description and interpretation. Findings aim to inform practice.
9. Credibility in qualitative research refers to:
A. Generalizability
B. Statistical significance
C. Sample size
D. Confidence in the truth of the findings
Correct Answer: D. Confidence in the truth of the findings
Rationale: Strategies include prolonged engagement, triangulation and member checking. It
parallels internal validity.
, 10. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design:
A. Collects qualitative data first
B. Collects both simultaneously
C. Collects quantitative data first, then qualitative data to explain the results
D. Uses no qualitative data
Correct Answer: C. Collects quantitative data first, then qualitative data to explain the results
Rationale: Qualitative follow-up explains unexpected findings. It is common in nursing.
11. Bracketing in descriptive phenomenology refers to:
A. Setting aside the researcher's preconceptions to understand participants' experiences
B. Placing quotes in brackets
C. Excluding participants
D. Statistical adjustment
Correct Answer: A. Setting aside the researcher's preconceptions to understand participants'
experiences
Rationale: Bracketing aims for openness. Interpretive phenomenology acknowledges
preconceptions instead.
12. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves:
A. Researchers working alone
B. No community input
C. Equitable partnership with community members throughout the research process
D. Only laboratory work
Correct Answer: C. Equitable partnership with community members throughout the research
process
Rationale: CBPR builds trust and relevance. It supports health equity.
