Chapter 5

Question 1

Which of the following is an example of empirical literature?

Answer 1

C. Practice guidelines

Question 2

Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing is an example of a(n):

Answer 2

A. Seminal work

Question 3

A summary of multiple research studies on one topic:

Answer 3

B. Secondary source

Question 4

Which of the following is a way to measure the quality of a research publication?

Answer 4

A. Peer review

Question 5

Information literacy is important for nurses to acquire and includes all the following except:

Answer 5

C. An advanced graduate degree

Question 6

When reading the literature review section of a research study, the reader needs to assess for all the following information except:

Answer 6

C. Article dated within the past 15 years

Question 7

Evidence based information has been frequently depicted as a pyramid. The model widely cited and adapted for nursing research is the 6S Model. The layers of the pyramid include all the following except:

Answer 7

C. Practice Layer

Question 8

The steps in a strong literature review include all the following except:

Answer 8

B. Retrieve abstracts

Question 9

Key resource databases for nursing research include all the following except:

Answer 9

C. Search Engines

Question 10

Organizing citations using a bibliographic management application includes using any of the following:

Answer 10

D. All of the above