Test Bank NURSING 500 ALL IN ONE TEST BANK

Test Bank NURSING 500 ALL IN ONE TEST BANK MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Nurses with a bachelor’s degree in nursing can participate in the implementation of evidence-based protocols in practice. This means that the BSN nurse ,itive Level: Analysis REF: Page 4 2. Research is designed to test the idea of providing companion dogs to elders in a major hospital, in order to determine the effect upon the elders’ level of orientation. (The dogs’ level of orientation will not be a focus of the research.) This type of study can do which of the following? 3. A researcher wants to find out whether children with autism who are hospitalized on a pediatric ward will require more hours of nursing care than average children when the parents or caregivers are not present. What type of research outcome does this provide? DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 16 4. A researcher who desires to determine the cause-and-effect relationship between requiring that all children under the age of 8 will ride in special care harnesses and the subsequent rate of children’s spinal cord injury will consequently utilize which form of nursing research? 5. Despite the presence of an intraventricular drain, the intracranial pressure of an ICU neuro patient remains increased. The nurse recalibrates the machine, makes sure the monitor is on the same level as the drain, checks all connections, and then notifies the physician, who comes to the unit and inserts a new drain. What type of reasoning prompts the nurse to recalibrate, ensure proper placement, and check connections? IF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 6 6. A nurse with considerable clinical expertise develops a policy for managing agitated patients in the emergency department. The resultant policy emanates from 7. A nurse with considerable clinical expertise develops a policy for managing agitated patients in the emergency department. The type of reasoning the nurse uses to do this is _____ reasoning. 8. What is the best explanation of intuition that forms a legitimate source of knowledge in nursing? 9. Why is operational reasoning necessary for research? MULTIPLE RESPONSE 1. What are the connections between evidence-based practice and nursing research? (Select all that apply.) 2. What is the hospitalized patient’s place in evidence-based practice? (Select all that apply.) 3. In nursing mentorship, as opposed to authority, the novice nurse fills which of the following roles? (Select all that apply.) DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: Page 10 4. How are dialectic reasoning and holistic practice similar? (Select all that apply.) a. 5. Which of the following statements synopsize the relationship between research and practice? (Select all that apply.) 6. Realistically, what might be done in a situation in which a nurse does not know the appropriate way to use a new ultrasonic bladder scanner (a non-invasive, painless procedure) but has an order to scan? (Select all that apply.) Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 9 7. Which of the following sources generates new knowledge for nurses? (Select all that apply.) Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 2 8. Which of these are suitable focuses for a nursing research study? (Select all that apply.) 9. What might a nursing research study address? (Select all that apply.) F: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 1 Chapter 2: Evolution of Research in Building Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. In which way did Florence Nightingale contribute to evidence-based practice? 2. If a nurse manager wants to study how well last year’s policies governing implementation of a “bundle” of interventions to prevent cross-contamination of MRSA have been working in her units, which of the following strategies would she use? 3. A researcher publishes a paper describing how faith, pain, adherence to therapy, and meditation interact during the rehabilitation process. The description of the process is based on many interviews the researcher conducted with persons during and following rehabilitation experiences. The methodology is 4. A panel of researchers conducts several studies, all drawn from an existent hospital and clinic database. The studies focus on quality and effectiveness within that system. The specific studies address mortality rates in elders within a year after hip fracture, functional outcomes six months after admission to a neurosurgical ICU after traumatic brain injury, rate of nurse injuries in an emergency department, and number of patient falls on various floors of the hospital. What type of research is this? 5. A researcher designs a study. It depends on questionnaires for data, it has a clear purpose statement, it provides its results as a narrative without statistical analysis, and it makes general suggestions for practice. What type of research is this? 6. A newly employed nurse administrator wants to know more about the employees on the units the administrator supervises. The manager accesses the managerial database and gathers data about all of the current employees on the unit, including work shift, number of years employed, age, gender, educational preparation, certifications, work history, and professional accomplishments. What type of research is this? ………………………………………………. ……………………………………CONTINUED…………………………….