NURSING RESEARCH
EXAM 2025
1. What is the highest priority for the importance of research in the nursing profession?
A. It increases caregivers' income
B. It improves communication between caregivers and patients
C. It enhances caregivers' public image
✅ D. Research findings provide evidence for informing caregivers' decisions and actions
2. Which group would be best served by clinical nursing research?
A. Nursing administrators
B. Physicians
C. Nursing students
✅ D. Caregivers' patients
3. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role in nursing?
A. Hospital budgeting
B. Credentialing and status
C. Patient entertainment
✅ B. Credentialing and status
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing research?
A. Develops theoretical models
✅ B. Reads research reports for relevant findings
C. Conducts primary research studies
D. Designs experimental methods
5. What was the concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A. Clinical skills
✅ B. Nursing education
C. Leadership styles
D. Patient safety
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,6. Which topic most closely conforms to the priorities for future nursing research?
A. Administrative policies
✅ B. Promotion of excellence in nursing science
C. Caregiver scheduling
D. Hospital architecture
7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A. Moving from specific cases to general theories
✅ B. Developing specific predictions from general principles
C. Observing behaviors without interpretation
D. Testing through random experimentation
8. What is the ontological assumption of those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
✅ A. Reality is multiply constructed and interpreted by humans
B. Reality is fixed and measurable
C. Reality exists only in laboratory settings
D. Reality cannot be known
9. What is the epistemological assumption of those espousing a positivist paradigm?
✅ A. The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied
B. Knowledge is subjective
C. The researcher co-creates data with participants
D. Truth is relative to perception
10. Which is not a characteristic of the traditional scientific method?
✅ A. Emphasis on a holistic view of a phenomenon studied in a rich context
B. Systematic observation
C. Hypothesis testing
D. Objective measurement
11. What is empiricism?
A. Emotional interpretation of evidence
✅ B. Gathering evidence rooted in reality
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, C. Using intuition to predict outcomes
D. Trusting authority over data
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
✅ A. Systematic approach
B. Spontaneous observation
C. Flexible guessing
D. Subjective interpretation
13. Which of the following limits the power of the scientific method to answer questions about
human life?
✅ A. The difficulty of accurately measuring complex human traits
B. Lack of funding
C. Limited technology
D. Poor statistical tools
14. What is a criticism of the scientific method?
✅ A. Reductionist
B. Holistic
C. Subjective
D. Intuitive
15. What is involved in naturalistic qualitative research?
✅ A. Takes place in the field
B. Uses laboratory settings
C. Focuses only on numerical data
D. Tests pre-determined hypotheses
16. A researcher wants to investigate the effect of patients’ body position on blood pressure.
What type of study is this?
A. Descriptive
B. Experimental
✅ C. Constructivist inquiry
D. Historical
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EXAM 2025
1. What is the highest priority for the importance of research in the nursing profession?
A. It increases caregivers' income
B. It improves communication between caregivers and patients
C. It enhances caregivers' public image
✅ D. Research findings provide evidence for informing caregivers' decisions and actions
2. Which group would be best served by clinical nursing research?
A. Nursing administrators
B. Physicians
C. Nursing students
✅ D. Caregivers' patients
3. In the United States, in what area does research play an important role in nursing?
A. Hospital budgeting
B. Credentialing and status
C. Patient entertainment
✅ B. Credentialing and status
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing research?
A. Develops theoretical models
✅ B. Reads research reports for relevant findings
C. Conducts primary research studies
D. Designs experimental methods
5. What was the concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s?
A. Clinical skills
✅ B. Nursing education
C. Leadership styles
D. Patient safety
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,6. Which topic most closely conforms to the priorities for future nursing research?
A. Administrative policies
✅ B. Promotion of excellence in nursing science
C. Caregiver scheduling
D. Hospital architecture
7. What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A. Moving from specific cases to general theories
✅ B. Developing specific predictions from general principles
C. Observing behaviors without interpretation
D. Testing through random experimentation
8. What is the ontological assumption of those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
✅ A. Reality is multiply constructed and interpreted by humans
B. Reality is fixed and measurable
C. Reality exists only in laboratory settings
D. Reality cannot be known
9. What is the epistemological assumption of those espousing a positivist paradigm?
✅ A. The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied
B. Knowledge is subjective
C. The researcher co-creates data with participants
D. Truth is relative to perception
10. Which is not a characteristic of the traditional scientific method?
✅ A. Emphasis on a holistic view of a phenomenon studied in a rich context
B. Systematic observation
C. Hypothesis testing
D. Objective measurement
11. What is empiricism?
A. Emotional interpretation of evidence
✅ B. Gathering evidence rooted in reality
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, C. Using intuition to predict outcomes
D. Trusting authority over data
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
✅ A. Systematic approach
B. Spontaneous observation
C. Flexible guessing
D. Subjective interpretation
13. Which of the following limits the power of the scientific method to answer questions about
human life?
✅ A. The difficulty of accurately measuring complex human traits
B. Lack of funding
C. Limited technology
D. Poor statistical tools
14. What is a criticism of the scientific method?
✅ A. Reductionist
B. Holistic
C. Subjective
D. Intuitive
15. What is involved in naturalistic qualitative research?
✅ A. Takes place in the field
B. Uses laboratory settings
C. Focuses only on numerical data
D. Tests pre-determined hypotheses
16. A researcher wants to investigate the effect of patients’ body position on blood pressure.
What type of study is this?
A. Descriptive
B. Experimental
✅ C. Constructivist inquiry
D. Historical
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