Chapter 1, 2, & 3 End of Text Questions (Mallory) Flashcards
The Affordable Care Act provides for the expansion of insurance to cover more Americans
True
The IOM report to Err is Human makes recommendations for nursing education and practice
True
EBP is best described as the use of only research for making clinical decisions
False-Use evidence from research, evidence-based theories, opinion leaders, and expert panels; evidence from assessments of patients, clinical expertise, healthcare setting and availability of resources, patient preferences
Evidence from experimental research is best for describing the number of people affected by chronic disease
False. Descriptive
Statistics is a scientific approach to express data or characteristics being studied
True
EBP is always founded on research evidence
Nurses with masters and doctorate of nursing practice degrees are expected to carry out original research?
Researchers take a sample from the population to infer the findings or results about a population
True
Because descriptive statistics have a different objective from inferential statistics, they should not be performed together
o False. They compliment each other
What is the general process of organizing, summarizing, and describing the collected data in an easier format
Descriptive Statistics
A researcher wants to study average sodium intake across various racial and ethnic groups. However, he is concerned that sample sizes for some racial/ethnic groups might be too small to be useful in statistical analyses. What type of sampling procedure might be the most useful for his purpose?
Stratified sampling
The length of time in minutes that a patient waits to be called at a hospital is an interval level of measurement
True
An investigator asks a patient participant at a local hospital to rate the service as outstanding, good, fair, poor, or very poor. These data are measured on an ordinal level of measurement
True
Which of the following is the example of a continuous variable?
Income
Not gender, profit v non profil, or zip codes
An instrument can be valid without being reliable
False. An instrument cannot be valid without being reliabl