Mastery 2
The American nurses Association commission on nursing education develop guidelines for the investigative function of nurses at different educational levels. Which of the following is a guideline for a nurse with an associate degree?
Assistant collection of data with an established structural format
A nurse develops the following foreground question using the PICO format in preparation for a research study: "In overweight clients, how do chromium supplements compared to no supplements help with weight loss?" Which part of the question reflects the intervention?
Chromium supplements
A nursing student is describing abstract ideas with a group of peers. The student says that these ideas can be a group of objects with relationships. The nursing instructor knows that the student is describing which of the following?
Concepts
A nursing Siri differs from a theoretical framework in which way?
Concepts and propositions are more specific and present or explain some phenomenon systematically
When the nurse researcher informs the participant that his identity will not be linked with the information that is collected the researchers ensuring the patients:
Confidentiality
The nursing student is describing building a nursing theory during a fundamentals of nursing class. The student describes that her theory can be built by looking at an idea as a whole and then breaking the idea down into smaller more specific ideas. The nursing instructor knows that the student is describing which of the following?
Deductive reasoning
A public health nurse is working with the larger group of clients who require a variety of patient care health teaching and health promotion. He's in Virginia Hendersons basic needs theory how should the nurse proceed in order to provide a variety of medical health teaching in health promotion interventions?
Determine general basic needs of the group and additional need specific to each client.
The nurse is reading about nursing theories for a class. The theory reveals the following individuals who use self-care to sustain life and health to recover from disease or injury or to cope with its affects which individual develop this theory?
Dorthea Orem
A nurse who works in a pediatric practice assesses the developmental level of children of various Of the various ages to determine their Psychosocial development. These assessments are based on the work of:
Erikson
When looking at a model for evidence-based practice what is the final step of the process?
Evaluating practice change
The nursing student studying research exhibits and understanding when informing the instructor that which of the following is the bridge between theory and practice?
Evidence-based research
In a nursing class the instructor asked the students about the nursing research process. The student identifies the first nurse to collect data on clients as which of the following?
Florence Nightingale
Who is considered the first nursing researcher?
Florence Nightingale
Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist to conceptualize the nursing in terms of manipulating the environment?
Florence Nightingale
Which theory emphasizes the relationships between the hole in the parts and describes how parts
General systems theory
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to:
Generate knowledge to guide practice
The nurse researcher is aware that the type of a variable that can be manipulated in a study as which of the following
Independent
A nurse researcher is involved in an experimental research study. Which component with the nurse research or manipulate?
Independent variable
A nurse observes that the past five clients referred from the community clinic have been treated for drug and or alcohol overdose. Based on this information the nurse assumes that the clinic specializes in the treatment of substance use. This is an example of what type of reasoning?
Inductive reasoning
A nurse researcher is studying female clients who have survived breast cancer. The nurse asked each client to describe her experience and then analyze the data for the meaning of the experience with in each person's own reality. This nurse has use which type of qualitative research method?
Phenomenology
A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilize stroke clients more frequently in order to prevent skin breakdown. The team is be gone by formulating a PICO question which of the following will the O in the teams PICO question refer to?
Preventing skin breakdown
The national Institute of nursing research was established following a study in 1983. The centers purpose is to
Promote research for health promotion
What type of research study would a hospital conduct to explore clients and families perceptions of receiving care
Qualitative
The nurse researcher would like to gather data about the attitudes of young adults on spirituality and health care. What is the most effective form of research on this topic?
Qualitative research
When a researcher begins to form plans for a research project the researcher must decide in the method for conducting the research. The nurse researcher the plan is to emphasize collection of nerd of data and the analysis would select which of the following methods of research?
Qualitative research
A nurse researcher is collecting nominal data. What type of research has been conducted?
Quantitative research
A nurse is discussing dietary issues with the Latino client in the clinic. The client states I read a research article about the importance of beans in the Latino diet. The findings from the study suggested that inclusion of me and beans in the diet would help in the development of muscles and bones.The information that the client is expressing is known as what?
Scientific knowledge
A nurse is planning to participate in a research project and is looking for information about what is already known about the topic. The nurses involved in which step of the research process?
Scientific literature review
The second step in implementation Of evidence-based practice include systematic review. In order to complete some systematic review of the literature the nurse must do which of the following?
Summarize findings from multiple studies that are related to a particular nursing practice
A nurse is using the quantitative research process to study the cause of healthcare associated infections and how to prevent them. Which actions are examples of the components of this process? Select all that apply
The nurse collects data from subjects in the study and the nurse formulate a hypothesis and variables in a study
Which statement best explains the importance of theoretical frameworks?
Theoretic frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
The nurse is discussing dietary issues with the Latino client in the clinic. The client states my grandmother always told me that I needed to include beans in my diet so that my muscles would grow the information that the client is expressing is known as what?
Traditional knowledge
I Nursing and NCLEX Mastery in Porten's of understanding the sources of knowledge which of the following types of knowledge what the instructor described as being subjective
Traditional knowledge and authoritative knowledge
Evidence based care emphasizes decision-making based on the best available evidence and:
Use of outcome studies to guide decisions
And today's healthcare environment nurses use theories to guide all stages of the nursing process. Which of the following are examples of ways that a nurse can utilize theories to guide client care? Select all that apply
• collect client data • organize client information • classify client data • analyze client situations
The nursing instructor is teaching about nursing theories. Students are asked to identify fax related to nursing theory. Which of the following facts are true regarding nursing theory. Select all that apply
•Nursing theory provide a rationale for the care The nurses provide • The ultimate outcome for nursing theory is improved client care • nursing theory provides a focus for care that is delivered to clients • nursing theories may be descriptive or prescriptive
There are four common concepts in nursing very well all concepts are important the focus of nursing is always on which of the following?
Person
Which could be an example of a qualitative research project?
A PhD in nursing student is collecting data on how Somali immigrants perceive the care they receive in one community clinic the nursing student is taping and analyzing interviews with clients that have been in the country community two years or less and to have sought care at least once at this clinic.
Nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that the opening paragraph summarizing the article and the research findings is a good place to start. What part of the article is the nursing student reading?
Abstract
A nurse is preparing to conduct a research study and uses the PICOformat to develop the foreground question which is: "In adults, does reducing salt intake, compared to no change in salt intake, lower blood pressure?" The nurse identifies the P as:
Adults
What is the central theme of Florence Nightingale's nursing theory?
Meeting the personal needs of the client with in the environment.
A nurse is planning to conduct a nursing research study and is seeking federal funding. Which institution would be most helpful for the nurse to contact funding?
National Institute of nursing research
Which group of nurses would be least likely involved in direct research?
Novice nurses and student nurses
What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice has change the way nursing care is delivered?
Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care
A nurse is preparing a seminar for a nursing research symposium. As part of the presentation the nurse Lindsey discuss the history surrounding the development of nursing research. When describing the research that occurred during the early to half of the 20th century which area would the nurse described as being the focus?
Nursing education
Which of the following represents the basic framework of the research process?
Nursing process
Which activity systematically inquires about the problems encountered in nursing practice and into the modalities of client care?
Nursing research
Nurses in an ICU noticed that there are clients required fewer interventions for pain when the ICU was quiet. They then asked a researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalize clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nurse and body of knowledge?
Nursing research helps improve ways to promote and maintain health
The nursing instructor asked a group of students identify three that describes explains for Dixon control outcomes and nursing practice. One student correctly identifies This theory as what?
Nursing theory
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes explains predicts and controls outcomes in nursing practice. One student correctly identifies this theory as what?
Nursing theory
