Chapter 1 Flashcards
The nurse researcher is explaining the key differences between research and evidence-based practice (EBP) to a new nurse researcher. Which statement best describes the relationship between research and practice?
“Research involves searching and testing available knowledge and EPB involves finding the best evidence to implement into practice.”
The nurse researcher is exploring the relationship between health promotion and illness prevention strategies used by a variety of populations. What purpose would this research fulfill?
Description
The nurse researcher is conducting a synthesis of research for developing a guideline to implement and evaluate in the practice setting. What purpose would this research fulfill?
Control
The nursing mentor is providing a brief lecture on the history of nursing. As a new nurse researcher, you understand that the focus of nursing research from the late 1990s through the present has focused on which area?
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
What is the major purpose of the National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR)?
Provide financial support for nursing research.
Examine the following statement: The nurse researcher speculates that patients who receive chemotherapy for lung cancer treatment experience vomiting as a side effect; therefore those patients who have leukemia and receive chemotherapy will also experience nausea and vomiting. What type of reasoning is the nurse researcher using?
Inductive
Examine the following statement: The nurse researcher speculates that nausea and vomiting are common side effects of chemotherapy; therefore patients who have leukemia and are being treated with chemotherapy will most likely have nausea and vomiting. What type of reasoning is the nurse researcher using?
Deductive
The nurse educator would like to design an orientation program for the medical/surgical unit. The researcher finds a phenomenological study conducted by Benner (1984), which describes how clinical knowledge and expertise is gained through experience. What type of knowledge is being highlighted in this study?
Personal experience
A nurse is using theories from psychology to expand her understanding of the grief process. This is an example of which way of acquiring knowledge for nursing practice?
Borrowing
A new registered nurse has formed a close relationship with an experienced nurse so that he or she might learn facets of nursing practice by imitating the behavior of the expert nurse. This is an example of which way of acquiring knowledge for nursing practice?
Role modeling
The nurse would like to research patients’ perceptions of pain. The nurse focuses on qualitative studies. What characteristic will likely be included in the qualitative research studies?
Theory development
The nurse is researching the incidence of pressure ulcers with a new skin care ointment to determine the cause and effect interactions among variables. This is known as which type of research?
Quasi-experimental research
The nurse researcher is examining research that was developed by the discipline of anthropology for investigating cultures through an in-depth study of the members of the culture. This is known as which type of research?
Ethnographic research
A study is entitled, “The Use of Massage as an Intervention for Decreasing Low Back Pain.” Based on this title, how would the nurse appraise this type of research?
Quasi-experimental research
Braden developed a scale to assess a patient’s risk for developing a pressure ulcer. Patients admitted to a hospital are assessed for their risk of pressure ulcer development and are provided interventions to prevent ulcers. This is an example of knowledge that can be used to ___________ outcomes in practice.
Control
A nurse researcher conducted a study to describe the experience of living with chronic pain. What type of study best generates this type of knowledge?
Phenomenological study
A nurse conducted a study to determine the patient and financial outcomes for using a particular type of treatment protocol for managing pressure ulcers. Based on this description, how would the nurse appraise this type of study?
Outcomes study
Which inductive research technique is used to formulate, test, and refine a theory about a particular phenomenon?
Grounded theory
An experienced nurse was caring for a patient following surgery and had a hunch that the patient was going to have severe complications. This way of acquiring knowledge is best described as
Intuition
A nursing student in a BSN program is required to take a research course before graduation. Which of the following learning outcomes will the nursing student acquire?
Critique research articles for clinical usefulness.
The nurse researcher is critically appraising a research study. Which of the following statements best describes a critique of research?
Careful examination of a study to evaluate its strengths, limitations, meaning, and significance
The nurse manager is charged with reviewing a patient satisfaction survey to determine the effectiveness of nursing care. This is an example of which type of research?
Outcomes research
The nurse researcher determines that published research is qualitative if it demonstrates which characteristic?
It presents results as a narrative.
The nurse researcher is preparing to search for practice protocols. Which of the following steps will assist in the process of nursing research?
Conducting a systematic investigation
Organizing existing data
Planning strategies to search literature
Persistent focus
The nursing mentor is providing a lecture on the types of nursing research. As a new nurse researcher, you understand that quantitative research differs from qualitative research in which of the following ways?
The results of quantitative research may be generalized to the population from which the sample was drawn, but qualitative research is not, strictly speaking, generalizable.
Quantitative research provides answers to “what” and “who” questions, and qualitative research focuses more on “how” and “why” questions.
