Clinical Inquiry
What should the nurse researcher do in order to effectively influence improvements in the work setting & ensure that all patient's consistently receive excellent care?
* Align national, organizational, & Unit level goals for QI * Recognize external drivers of quality * Develop skills to apply QI models & tools
The vertical line in a graphic of a systematic review:
An odd ratio of 1
What is the initial phase in application of quality improvement (QI) steps to a clinical performance problem?
Assessment
Which database is most likely to yield the highest level evidence for a nurse researcher?
Cochrane Review
What should a nurse researcher use to guide the analysis of data collected from subjects who meet study inclusion & exclusion criteria for the purpose of answering specific research questions that test specified hypothesis?
Conduct of research
A nurse researcher reviewing an experimental study notices that one group received the "gold standard" treatment. This should be most accurately interpreted as:
Current standard of treatment
The nurse researcher who is involved in conduct of research should plan to accomplish:
Dissemination of findings via research reports
Which approach is useful to evaluate an EBP standard after providers have written in?
Focused group
What is a standardized survey & data-collection method for measuring patient's perspectives on hospital care?
Hospital consumer assessment of Healthcare providers & systems
A nurse researcher is selecting a topic for an EBP project. Which type of topic would be most appropriate if the researcher is interested in developing an idea from a problem-focused trigger?
Increased incidence of deep vein thrombosis in trauma patient's
Skills needed to consult the literature & answer a clinical question are known as:
Information literacy
How is PICU [patient/ population/ problem: Intervention/ treatment: Comparison/ intervention/ treatment; outcome (s)] used in EBP?
It is used to formulate the practice question
What type of study would be most appropriate of a nurse researcher wants to answer a question about a patient's likely course in a disease trajectory?
Longitudinal
Which type of research findings is considered the strongest available evidence?
Meta- Analysis
In an experimental, when a value is obtained that shows no difference between the treatment & control group, the value is considered:
Null
The statistic a nurse researcher should choose to use in a meta-analysis is:
Odds Ratio
A nurse researcher is selecting a topic for an EBP project. Which type of topic would be most appropriate if the researcher is interested in developing an idea from a knowledge-focused trigger?
One identified through staff reading research
What type of study would be most appropriate if the nurse researcher is seeking to answer a question about the effectiveness of a particular treatment?
Quasi-Experiment
To determine the guiding steps involved in actualizing EBP, the researcher should expect to study the IOWA model of Evidence-Based practice to promote quality Care in conjunction with:
Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Model
What term is used for the ability of a test or technique to detect a disease when present?
Sensitivity
What is the name of the initiative of organizations that buy healthcare & are working to improve the safety, quality & affordability of healthcare for Americans?
The Leapfrog Group
How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ration less than 1.0?
The event is less likely in the treatment group than in the control group
How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ratio greater than 1.0?
The event is more likely to occur in the treatment group than the control group
A nurse researcher should view EBP as:
The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise & patient values
To assess the efficacy of a specific intervention, which type of clinical category should the student investigate in appraising study results?
Therapy
The nurse researcher is reading theoretical & clinical articles to have a Broadview of the topic& related concepts before reviewing existing EBP guidelines. The nurse researcher begins the process by:
This is the first step involved in reading the articles
How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ratio equal to 1.0?
This means there is no difference in the odds of an event occurring between the experimental & control groups.
A nurse researcher critiquing a research study notes that a confidence interval (CI) is too large for a new therapy to be clinically meaningful. What likely contributed to this statistical outcome?
Too small a sample
A nurse researcher can use research findings to go beyond dissemination of evidence-based guidelines & promote adoption of evidence-based practice (EBP) guileless through:
Translating research into practice
What should the nurse researcher plan to include in a research study that is focused on EBP?
Use of randomized controlled trials
