RESEARCH POST TEST

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A nurse is conducting an in-service on evidence-based practice. What should the nurse explain as the most difficult step in the evidence-based practice process?

Critiquing the evidence

A nurse is critiquing evidence from a number of studies. The nurse should evaluate first which component when critiquing evidence?

The scientific merit of each study's findings

The primary reason nurses engage in research is to:

provide the most appropriate evidence-based client care.

To be important to nursing practice, nursing theory must be supported by what?

Patient outcomes

Why should the registered nurse, practicing nursing at the bedside be concerned about research for the dellvery of quality nursing care?

Research provides the nurse with knowledge needed to make sound clinical decisions.

The nurse found a research article and decided to implement the research findings in her practice on the unit. This is an example of

research utilization.

Why should the average consumer of health care be concerned about nursing research?

Research provides evidence that nursing care makes a difference.

How would you differentiate basic from clinical research?

Basic research is the generation of theories, whereas clinical research is the application of theories in different populations.

Regarding nursing research, the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is best utilized when:

designing research studies.

A novice nurse reading a research article should first concentrate on which sections of the article?

Abstract and discussion

When recruiting subjects to participate in a study about the effects of an exercise program on balance, the researcher provides full and complete information about the purpose of the study and gives the subjects the choice to participate or not participate in the study. This is an example of:

Informed consent.

A nurse is providing care to a patient who is experiencing major abdominal trauma tollowing a car accident. The patient is losing blood quickly and needs a blood transfusion. The nurse finds out that the patient is a Jehovah's Witness and cannot have blood transfusions because of religious beliefs. He or she notifies the patient's health care provider and receives an order to give the patient an alternative to blood products. This is an example of:

Considering the patient's preferences and values.

The best way to determine that a research study met ethical standards is by locating information showing what?

The study was approved by an institutional review board.

The nurse is attempting to locate the legal-ethical issues of a qualitative research study. The best place for the nurse to look for this in the study is where?

Procedure section

Which statement is true about informed consent?

The presence of a witness is mandatory

A problem the researcher would like to solve

Lisa, a faculty member of the Sta. Quiteria College of Nursing, would like to conduct a study on the effects of the new nursing curriculum on the grades of senlor nursing students. You were taught that while research might be a good thing to do, only faculty could do research because:

faculty members are adept to do research

Lisa, a faculty member of the Sta. Quiteria College of Nursing, would like to conduct a study on the effects of the new nursing curriculum on the grades of senlor nursing students. Lisa is about to conduct an applied research motive. She knows that applied research builds a body of knowledge for nursing practice because it is the basis of:

evidence-based practice

Lisa already selected the problem she wants to solve. Which of the dd questions is important to ask when determining the significance of the problem?

Will the findings be applicable to nursing practice?

Lisa, a faculty member of the Sta. Quiteria College of Nursing, would like to conduct a study on the effects of the new nursing curriculum on the grades of senlor nursing students. Which of the following best represents a well-constructed problem statement for Lisa's research study?

This study will examine the effects of the new nursing curriculum on the grades of senior nursing students

In the hypothesis, "Regular provision of iron improves iron status of breast-fed infants without adverse effects, " which should the nurse identify as the independent variable?

Regular provision of iron

All research is based on philosophical beliefs, a worldvlew, or a paradigm. How would the nurse differentiate between quantitative research and qualitative research?

Quantitative research is observable and measurable, and qualitative research focuses on values and beliefs.

If a nursing research project strives to discover new information concerning client care practices, this project Is said to be a model of:

qualitative design.

When researching an aspect of human grief response, the nurse researcher will likely select which method of qualitative design?

Phenomenology

A nurse doing research chooses individualized randomized controlled trials. These trials are excellent for testing what type of hypotheses?

Those that deal with the effectiveness of various patient care therapies

How would you differentiate correlational research from experimental research?

Correlational research examines a relationship between two variables, and experimental research examines a causal relationship between variables.

The research design incorporates some of most important methodologic decisions that researchers make, particularly in quantitative studies. If a study uses the "emic" point of view, what type of research design is being used?

Qualitative

Quantitative research is often identified with what method of gathering data?

Scientific

A quasi- experimental design is one in which

the independent variable is manipulated without randomization

Nurse Krissa knows that the introduction of a 30-week cognitive therapy intervention on depressed battered men is an example of:

longitudinal study

Nurse Krissa knows that the introduction of a 30-week cognitive therapy intervention on depressed battered men is an example of:

Manipulation

A nurse researcher conducts a study that randomly assigns 100 patients who smoke and attend a wellness clinic into two groups. One group receives the standard smoking cessation handouts; the other group takes part in a new educational program that includes a smoking cessation support group. The nurse plans to compare the effectiveness of the standard treatment with the educational program. What type of a research study is this?

Randomized controlled trial

A nurse researcher decides to complete a study to evaluate how Florence Nightingale improved patient outcomes in the Crimean War. This is an example of what type of research?

Historical

How does ethnography differ from grounded theory?

Ethnography is described as field notes, and grounded theory derives a theory from the research data.

A nursing professor assigns a group of students to do data gathering classmates as subjects. by interviewing their She instructed the interviewees not to tell the interviewees that the data gathered are for her own research project for publication. This teacher has violated the student's right to:

Full disclosure

A nurse preceptor observes that many clients are being readmitted in the ward for postoperative infections. She suggests to the students that they do research on this topic. What research activity is this?

Identifying clinical problem

Quantitative research involves numerical data. Which of the following is based on quantitative research?

The effects of regular nurse visits to client's bedside on the number of client's calls to the nurse

Before the nurse researcher starts her study, she analyzes how much time, money, materials and people she will need to complete the research project. This analysis prior to beginning the study is called:

Feasibility

Data analysis is to be done and the nurse researcher wants to include variability. These include the following EXCEPT:

Mean

You are actively practicing nurse who just finished your Graduate Studies. You learned the value of Research and would like to utilize the knowledge and skills gained in the application of research to Nursing service. The following questions apply to research. Which type of research inquiry investigates the issues of human complexity (e.g, understanding the human expertise)?

Naturalistic inquiry

Which of the following studies is based on quantitative research?

A study measuring the effects of sleep deprivation on wound healing

Which of the following studies is based on qualitative research?

A study examining client's reactions to stress after open heart surgery

An 85-year-old client in a nursing home tells a nurse, "I signed the papers for that research study because the doctor was so insistent and I want him to continue taking care of me". Which client right is being violated?

Right of self determination

"A supposition or system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon", best defines:

a theory

As a nurse you are expected to participate in initiating or participating in the conduct of research studies to improve nursing practice. You have to be updated on the latest trends and issues affecting, profession and the best practices arrived at by the profession. You are interested to study the effects of meditation and relaxation on the pain experienced by cancer patients. What type of variable is pain?

Dependent

You would like to compare the support system or patients with chronic illness to those with acute illness. How will you best state your title of the study?

A Comparative Analysis Of The Support System Of Patients With Chronic Illness And Those With Acute Illness.

You would like to compare the support system of patients with chronic Illness to those with acute illness. What type of research it this?

Descriptive

You are shown a Likert Scale that will be used in evaluating your performance in the clinical area. Which of the following questions will you not use in critiquing the Likert Scale?

Is the instrument clearly described?

In any research study where individual persons are involved, it is important that an informed consent for the study is obtained. The following are essential information about the consent that you should disclose to the prospective subjects EXCEPT:

Consent to incomplete disclosure

A research study was undertaken in order to identify and analyze a disabled boy's coping reaction pattern during stress. This study which is an in-depth study of one boy is a:

case study

The process recording was the principal tool for data collection. Which of the following is NOT a part of a process recording?

Audio-visual recording

The investigator also provided the nursing care of the subject. The investigator is referred to as a/an:

Participant-observer

To ensure reliability of the study, the investigator's analysis and interpretations were:

subjected to an inter-observer agreement

As a beginner in research, you are aware that sampling is an essential element of the research process. What does a sample group represent?

General population

What is the most important characteristic of a sample?

Representativeness

Random sampling ensures that each subject has:

An equal chance of selection

Which of the following methods allows the use of any group of research subject?

Convenience

You decided to include 5 barangays in your municipality and chose a sampling method that would get representative samples from each barangay. What should be the appropriate method of sampling to use?

Stratified sampling

Survey and statistics are important part of research that are both necessary to explain the characteristics of the population. All but one of the following is not a measure of variability

Mode

It reflects the most frequent value that appears in the set data:

Mode

Your nursing unit plans to conduct a study on the use of structured preoperative preparation in lessening the demand for post-operative pain medications. Which of the following research activities should you initially do?

review literature on the topic

Which of the following statements do NOT contribute to the researchabilty of your proposed problem?

potential use of findings

A study /research table should NOT contain which of the following?

names and sample of the selected

QYour nursing unit plans to conduct a study on the use of structured preoperative preparation in lessening the demand for post-operative pain medications. Which of the following actions will facilitate analysis of research data?

consult a physician

Your nursing unit plans to conduct a study on the use of structured preoperative preparation in lessening the demand for post-operative pain medications. The research methodology that is appropriate for the above problem would be

experimental

A research was conducted on, "The effects of the nurse's expressive role in the reduction of anxiety in patients who will undergo nasogastric tube insertion." The research is experimental which means that utilized:

control and experimental groups

A research was conducted on, "The effects of the nurse's expressive role in the reduction of anxiety in patients who will undergo nasogastric tube insertion." The independent variable is:

expressive role

A research was conducted on, "The effects of the nurse's expressive role in the reduction of anxiety in patients who will undergo nasogastric tube insertion." The dependent variable is:

reduction of anxiety

A research was conducted on, "The effects of the nurse's expressive role in the reduction of anxiety in patients who will undergo nasogastric tube insertion." This study was done to check the procedures of the research:

pilot study

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental research?

value plays a significant part in research

A client insists that the practitioner use a treatment method discovered on an internet database. Which of the following response is most appropriate?

“The treatment must be examined to see if it is appropriate"

A client insists that the practitioner use a treatment method discovered on an internet database. This is a type of computerized recording system that enables hospital to organize various data such as admission, records, clinical laboratory, pharmacy, inventory, and finance.

Hospital information system

A nurse, who is proficient in computers and information technology that uses these advantages to promote effective and secured used of computerized record is referred to as:

Nursing information technician

One advantage of a computerized recording system is that

Information concerning the client can easily be updated

You are to search the different types of oxygen delivery system. From the nasal cannula up to the venture mask. Using nursing informatics, you found out different sources of information. One of the question needs to be answered in your research is "What type of oxygen delivery system is the most comfortable?" you will answer:

Nasal cannula, according to the American journal of nursing and medicine

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