EBP practice ?'s Flashcards
The nurse researcher is explaining the key differences between research and EBP to a new nurse researcher. Which statement best describes the relationship between research and practice?
Research involves searching and testing available knowledge and EBP involves finding the best evidence to implement into practice.
Which is the most important result of Nightingale’s data collection and statistical analysis during the Crimean War?
Using clinical research to evaluate the need for sanitation, clean drinking water, and adequate nutrition.
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?
EBP
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 RN 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?
role modeling
What type of reasoning? The nurse researcher speculates that N/V are common side effects of chemotherapy; therefore PTS who have leukemia and are being treated with chemotherapy will most likely have N/V.
deductive reasoning
What type of reasoning? The nurse researcher speculates that PTS who receive chemotherapy for Lung cancer treatment experience vomiting as a side effect; therefore, those PTS who have leukemia receive chemo will also experience nausea.
inductive reasoning
The nurse researcher determines that published research is qualitative if it demonstrates which characteristic?
if presents results as a narrative
Which approaches do you like to use for your future EBP project?
both: quantitative and Qualitative Research
A nurse which a BSN is prepared to so which of the following? (SATA)
appraise and summarize research findings and assist with the implication of evidence based guidelines.
The purpose of a study was to identify caring behavior desired by patients with HIV. The purpose statement indicates that this is probably which type of study?
descriptive
The nurse researcher is implementing a treatment of a low-calorie diet to determine the impact of the diet on body weight. This is an example of what type of study?
Quasi-Experimental
The nurse on a medsurg unit would like to use the research process to find a solution to the current infection rates for post surgical PTS. Which type of research would be employed?
applied
The nurse knows that _________ is conducted to generate and refine theory, and is frequently not directly useful in practice
basic research
The nurse researcher is conducting a lecture series on how to report research findings. The researcher begins with an overview of the four major parts most often included in a research report. Which of the following would be included in this overview?
Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion
