Evidence Based Practice
Which of the following best reflects the rationale for evidence-based practice?
A means to ensure quality care
Which nursing actions reflect the use of philosophy as a knowledge base when delivering evidence-based care to patients?
A nurse draws from personal experiences of being a patient to establish a therapeutic relationship with a patient. A nurse uses spiritual training to draw strength when counseling a patient who is in hospice for an inoperable brain tumor.
A group of students are reviewing information about evidence-based practice in preparation for an exam. The students demonstrate understanding of the information when they identify which of the following as associated with evidence-based practice?
Clinical expertise is integrated with external evidence.
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
What is the best explanation for the way evidence based practice (EBP) has changed the way nursing care is delivered?
Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care.
A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. What is the term for this type of theory affecting change in clinical nursing practice?
Prescriptive theory
Which type of quantitative research is often conducted to examine the effects of nursing interventions on patient outcomes?
Quasi-experimental research
The nursing instructor is explaining sources of knowledge to a group of nursing students. She says, "Some knowledge is passed from one generation to another." One of the students correctly describes this source as being what?
Traditional knowledge
When you ask an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day, the nurse says, "I guess we have just always done it that way." This answer is an example of what type of knowledge?
Traditional knowledge
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to
Generate knowledge to guide practice
A nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that the paragraph at the beginning of the article that summarizes the article and the findings of the research is a good place to start when reading this article. What part of the article is the nursing student reading?
Abstract
When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:
Data
Which method of qualitative research was developed by the discipline of anthropology?
Ethnography
The nursing student studying research exhibits an understanding when informing the instructor that which of the following is the bridge between theory and practice?
Evidence-based research
A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICO format. What does the letter P represent?
Explicit descriptions of the population of interest
In nursing class the instructor asks 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
A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing care for patients in their health care facility. Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?
Madeline Leininger
Nurses in an ICU noticed that their 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 hospitalized clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nursing body of knowledge?
Nursing research helps improve ways to promote and maintain health.
A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognizes the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of these four, which is most important?
Person
There are four common concepts in nursing theory. While all concepts are important, the focus of nursing is always on which of the following?
Person
A nurse researcher must decide on the method for conducting the research. The researcher that plans to emphasize collection of numerical data and analysis would select which of the following methods of research?
Quantitative research
After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical surgical unit rewrites the procedure on assessing placement of a nasogastric tube. What source of nursing knowledge did the nurse use in this situation?
Scientific knowledge
The second step in implementation of evidence-based practice includes systematic review. In order to complete a 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 general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statements reflect key points of this theory?
The whole system is always greater than its parts. Boundaries separate systems from each other and their environments. To survive, open systems maintain balance through feedback.
