CH 1: Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Flashcards
What is the highest priority for the importance
of research in the nursing profession?
A)Research findings provide evidence for
informing nurses’ decisions and actions.
B)Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice.
C)Document the role that nurses serve in
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
A)Research findings provide evidence for
informing nurses’ decisions and actions.
Which group would be best served by clinical
nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
C) Nurses’ clients
In the United States, in what area does
research play an important role in nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses’ personalities
D) Nurses’ education
B) Credentialing and status
What is the role of a consumer of nursing
research?
A) Read research reports for relevant findings.
B)Participate in generating evidence by doing
research.
C)Participate in journal club in a practice
setting.
D)Solve clinical problems and make clinical
A) Read research reports for relevant findings.
What was the concern of most nursing studies
in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
D) Nursing education
Which topic most closely conforms to the
priorities that have been suggested for future
nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
various clinical specialties.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
What is the process of deductive reasoning?
A)Verifying assumptions that are part of our
heritage.
B)Developing specific predictions from general
principles.
C)Empirically testing observations that are made
known through our senses.
D)Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
B)Developing specific predictions from general
principles.
What is the ontological assumption of those
espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
A)Objective reality and those natural
phenomena are regular and orderly.
B)Phenomena are not haphazard and result from
prior causes.
C)Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
interpreted by humans.
D)Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds.
C)Reality is multiply constructed and multiply
interpreted by humans.
What is the epistemological assumption of
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
A)The researcher is objective and independent
of those being studied.
B)Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather have antecedent causes.
C) The researcher instructs those being studied to
be objective in providing information.
D)Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds
A)The researcher is objective and independent
of those being studied.
Which is not a characteristic of traditional
scientific method?
A) Control over external factors.
B)Systematic measurement and observation of
natural phenomena.
C) Deductive reasoning.
D)Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
D)Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
What is empiricism?
A)Making generalizations from specific
observations.
B)Deducing specific predictions from
generalizations.
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
D) Verifying the assumptions on which the study
was based.
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
What is a hallmark of the scientific method?
A) Infallible
B) Holistic
C) Systematic
D) Flexible
C) Systematic
Which of the following limits the power of
the scientific method to answer questions
about human life?
A)The necessity of departing from traditional
beliefs.
B)The difficulty of accurately measuring
C) The inability to control potential biases.
D)The shortage of theories about human
behavior.
B)The difficulty of accurately measuring
What is a criticism of the scientific method?
A) Deductive
B) Deterministic
C) Empirical
D) Reductionist
D) Reductionist
What is involved in naturalistic qualitative
research?
A) Involves deductive processes
B) Takes places in the field.
C)Focuses on the idiosyncrasies of those being
studied.
D)Attempts to control the research context to
better understand the phenomenon being
studied.
B) Takes places in the field.
