NURS 4325 KNOWLEDGE 190 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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190 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The purpose of an IRB (institutional review board) is to:
a) critique the research of a study
b) review the costs associated w/ an institutional study
c) determine the appropriate journals for publication of the study
d) determine the extent to which human rights will be protected in a study -
CORRECT ANSWER - d) determine the extent to which human rights will be
protected in a study
Concept of causality would be important in which of the following research
designs?
a) descriptive
b) time dimensional
c) phenomenological
d) experimental - CORRECT ANSWER - d) experimental
A friend asks you to explain the difference between a conceptual definition and an
operational definition of anxiety. You help her to understand these concepts by
providing her with the following operational definition of anxiety
,a) overwhelming feeling of uneasiness
b) score above 40 on the Anxiety Invenvory
c) discomfort at the highest level
d) a sense of fear - CORRECT ANSWER - b) score above 40 on the Anxiety
Invenvory
If a researcher wants to understand what it is like to undergo chemotherapy from
the patient's perspective of their lived experience, the study design is:
a) historical research
b) phenomenology
c) ethnography
d) quantitative descriptive - CORRECT ANSWER - b) phenomenology
Nursing students in a research course are learning about problem statements. to be
considered researchable, a problem must:
a) deal w/ patient outcomes rather than social issues
b) be clearly defined as the gap in knowledge
c) include an ethical dimension
d) be a clear, concise statement of the specific goal or focus of the study -
CORRECT ANSWER - b) be clearly defined as the gap in knowledge
,A nurse hypothesizes that the presence of social support from family affects the
pain perception of hospitalized patients.
What is the dependent variable in this hypothesis?
a) family members
b) a pain perception
c) hospitalized patients
d) social support - CORRECT ANSWER - Pain perception
A nurse researcher is planning his problem statement for his correlational study.
He knows it should include the:
variables and type of subjects desired for the study.
theoretical framework and measuring tools to be used.
setting and statistics that will be used.
research design and approach for obtaining consent. - CORRECT ANSWER -
variables and type of subjects desired for the study
A conceptual definition of a variable is:
, also considered to be the intervention.
the systematic investigation of relationship.
influencing the selection of the sample.
defined in the review of literature. - CORRECT ANSWER - defined in the
review of literature
Which of the following study designs focuses on finding a cause and effect
relationship among variables, but uses a lower level of control?
experimental
phenomenology
quasi-experimental
descriptive - CORRECT ANSWER - Quasi-experimental
A nursing research student is evaluating a research framework that is explicitly
started in a research article. All of these statements describe the purpose of a
research framework EXCEPT:
it is tested within the study
2026/2027 || NURSING KNOWLEDGE & CLINICAL CONCEPTS
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190 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The purpose of an IRB (institutional review board) is to:
a) critique the research of a study
b) review the costs associated w/ an institutional study
c) determine the appropriate journals for publication of the study
d) determine the extent to which human rights will be protected in a study -
CORRECT ANSWER - d) determine the extent to which human rights will be
protected in a study
Concept of causality would be important in which of the following research
designs?
a) descriptive
b) time dimensional
c) phenomenological
d) experimental - CORRECT ANSWER - d) experimental
A friend asks you to explain the difference between a conceptual definition and an
operational definition of anxiety. You help her to understand these concepts by
providing her with the following operational definition of anxiety
,a) overwhelming feeling of uneasiness
b) score above 40 on the Anxiety Invenvory
c) discomfort at the highest level
d) a sense of fear - CORRECT ANSWER - b) score above 40 on the Anxiety
Invenvory
If a researcher wants to understand what it is like to undergo chemotherapy from
the patient's perspective of their lived experience, the study design is:
a) historical research
b) phenomenology
c) ethnography
d) quantitative descriptive - CORRECT ANSWER - b) phenomenology
Nursing students in a research course are learning about problem statements. to be
considered researchable, a problem must:
a) deal w/ patient outcomes rather than social issues
b) be clearly defined as the gap in knowledge
c) include an ethical dimension
d) be a clear, concise statement of the specific goal or focus of the study -
CORRECT ANSWER - b) be clearly defined as the gap in knowledge
,A nurse hypothesizes that the presence of social support from family affects the
pain perception of hospitalized patients.
What is the dependent variable in this hypothesis?
a) family members
b) a pain perception
c) hospitalized patients
d) social support - CORRECT ANSWER - Pain perception
A nurse researcher is planning his problem statement for his correlational study.
He knows it should include the:
variables and type of subjects desired for the study.
theoretical framework and measuring tools to be used.
setting and statistics that will be used.
research design and approach for obtaining consent. - CORRECT ANSWER -
variables and type of subjects desired for the study
A conceptual definition of a variable is:
, also considered to be the intervention.
the systematic investigation of relationship.
influencing the selection of the sample.
defined in the review of literature. - CORRECT ANSWER - defined in the
review of literature
Which of the following study designs focuses on finding a cause and effect
relationship among variables, but uses a lower level of control?
experimental
phenomenology
quasi-experimental
descriptive - CORRECT ANSWER - Quasi-experimental
A nursing research student is evaluating a research framework that is explicitly
started in a research article. All of these statements describe the purpose of a
research framework EXCEPT:
it is tested within the study
