NURS 5366-MODULE 1 - PRIN OF
RESEARCH IN NURSING EXAM WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | VERIFIED
BY EXPERT | 2025 NEW UPDATE.
What is evidence-based practice?
ANSWER ✔✔ Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical
expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
What must EBP in nursing be able to do with available studies?
ANSWER ✔✔ Critically appraise available studies and synthesize credible findings.
What is the body of nursing knowledge based on?
ANSWER ✔✔ Science, and includes theory and research.
What is the literal meaning of the term "Research"?
ANSWER ✔✔ "Search again" or "examine carefully".
What is research in nursing?
ANSWER ✔✔ Diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation to generate new knowledge,
validate existing knowledge, and refine knowledge by incorporating new research findings.
What is nursing research?
ANSWER ✔✔ The scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and
generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences the delivery of evidence-based
nursing.
, How is nursing defined?
ANSWER ✔✔ The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What does applied research in nursing focus on?
ANSWER ✔✔ Generating knowledge that can be directly implemented in clinical practice.
What is basic/bench research?
ANSWER ✔✔ Research that is not immediately applicable to practice but is needed to build and
strengthen the scientific foundation of practice.
What is meant by concrete thinking?
ANSWER ✔✔ Thinking that is oriented toward and limited by tangible things or by events
experienced objectively through our senses; limited by time and space.
What is abstract thinking?
ANSWER ✔✔ Concept development without application to a specific instance, focusing on
meaning, patterns, and relationships; independent of time and space.
Give examples of abstract concepts.
ANSWER ✔✔ Competence, quality, social support, hope.
What are the 3 main categories of abstract thought processes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Introspection, intuition, reasoning.
What is introspection?
ANSWER ✔✔ The process of turning your attention inward toward your own thoughts.
RESEARCH IN NURSING EXAM WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | VERIFIED
BY EXPERT | 2025 NEW UPDATE.
What is evidence-based practice?
ANSWER ✔✔ Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical
expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
What must EBP in nursing be able to do with available studies?
ANSWER ✔✔ Critically appraise available studies and synthesize credible findings.
What is the body of nursing knowledge based on?
ANSWER ✔✔ Science, and includes theory and research.
What is the literal meaning of the term "Research"?
ANSWER ✔✔ "Search again" or "examine carefully".
What is research in nursing?
ANSWER ✔✔ Diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation to generate new knowledge,
validate existing knowledge, and refine knowledge by incorporating new research findings.
What is nursing research?
ANSWER ✔✔ The scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and
generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences the delivery of evidence-based
nursing.
, How is nursing defined?
ANSWER ✔✔ The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What does applied research in nursing focus on?
ANSWER ✔✔ Generating knowledge that can be directly implemented in clinical practice.
What is basic/bench research?
ANSWER ✔✔ Research that is not immediately applicable to practice but is needed to build and
strengthen the scientific foundation of practice.
What is meant by concrete thinking?
ANSWER ✔✔ Thinking that is oriented toward and limited by tangible things or by events
experienced objectively through our senses; limited by time and space.
What is abstract thinking?
ANSWER ✔✔ Concept development without application to a specific instance, focusing on
meaning, patterns, and relationships; independent of time and space.
Give examples of abstract concepts.
ANSWER ✔✔ Competence, quality, social support, hope.
What are the 3 main categories of abstract thought processes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Introspection, intuition, reasoning.
What is introspection?
ANSWER ✔✔ The process of turning your attention inward toward your own thoughts.
