Test Bank- Polit & Beck's Nursing Research Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice 12Th Edition ( CHERYL TATANO BECK, 2024) Latest Edition || All Chapters

, Nursing Research Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice 12th Edi
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
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What is the highest priority for the impo
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1. rtance of research in the nursing professio
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n?
Research findings provide evidence for i
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A)
nforming nurses' decisions and actions.
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Conduct research to better understand the
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B)
context of nursing practice.
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Document the role that nurses serve in so
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C)
ciety.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
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Which group would be best served by cli
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2.
nical nursing research?
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In the United States, in what area does
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3.
research play an important role in nursing
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What is the role of a consumer of nursin
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4.
g research?
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Read research reports for relevant findi
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A)
ngs.

Participate in generating evidence by do
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B)
ing research.
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Participate in journal club in a practice se
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C)
tting.
Solve clinical problems and make clinical
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D)
decisions.
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What was the concern of most nursing st
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5.
udies in the early 1900s?
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Which topic most closely conforms to th
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6. e priorities that have been suggested for
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future nursing research?
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Attitudes of nursing students toward smok
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A)
ing.
Promotion of excellence in nursing scie
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B)
nce.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
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Number of doctorate prepared nurses in v
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D)
arious clinical specialties.
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, What is the process of deductive reason
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7.
ing?
Verifying assumptions that are part of ou
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A)
r heritage.
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Developing specific predictions from gene
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B)
ral principles.
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Empirically testing observations that are
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C)
made known through our senses.
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Forming generalizations from specific obs
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D)
ervations.



What is the ontological assumption of
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8.
those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
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Objective reality and those natural pheno
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A)
mena are regular and orderly.
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Phenomena are not haphazard and result f
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B)
rom prior causes.
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Reality is multiply constructed and mul
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C)
tiply interpreted by humans.
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Reality is not fixed, but is rather a constr
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D)
uction of human minds.
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What is the epistemological assumption o
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9.
f those espousing a positivist paradigm?
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The researcher is objective and indepe
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A)
ndent of those being studied.
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Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather
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B)
have antecedent causes.
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The researcher instructs those bein
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C) g studied to be objective in provi
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ding information.
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