NURS 3111 PREPU Chapter 2
Provide a basis for best practice guidelines Provide a resource for evaluating care Develop new ways to improve assessment and diagnostic skills
What are the primary purposes for conducting research in nursing? Select all that apply.
Meeting the personal needs of the client within the environment.
What is the central theme of Florence Nightingale's nursing theory?
Inductive reasoning
What is the process of considering a group of specific ideas and then drawing conclusions that relate to a general idea?
Qualitative research
When a researcher begins to form plans for a research project, the researcher must decide on the method for conducting the research. The nurse researcher that plans to emphasize collection of narrative data and the analyses would select which of the following methods of research?
Person (client) Environment Health Nursing
Which are core concepts in nursing theory? (Select all that apply.)
Collect client data. Organize client information. Classify client data. Analyze client situations.
Which are examples of ways that a nurse can use theories to guide client care? (Select all that apply.)
Provide knowledge and a rationale for client interventions Provide a rationale for appropriate nursing actions in a given situation Identify and define concepts that are important to nursing Increase the nursing body of knowledge
Which are goals of nursing theory? (Select all that apply.)
Accessibility
Which criterion is not used for critically evaluating websites when doing a literature review?
"Is it better to tell clients that a medical error has occurred with their care and do an internal investigation, or tell them about the error and do an internal investigation?"
Which is not an example of a problem statement?
Recommending ginger to alleviate nausea and vomiting in obstetric clients based on a literature review
Which is the best example of evidence-based nursing practice?
nursing process
Which represents the basic framework of the research process?
Quasi-experimental
Which type of quantitative research will examine cause-and-effect relationships between selected variables?
Florence Nightingale
Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating the environment?
"You have the right to withdraw your consent for being a research subject at any time."
A client preparing to be a subject in a research study informs the nurse that the client would like to withdraw from the research study immediately. What is the best response by the nurse?
theory
A group of concepts and the relationships among them is what?
Authoritative knowledge
A nurse is discussing dietary issues with a Latino client in the clinic. The client states, "My nutritionist 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?
an architectural blueprint.
A nurse is orienting a group of nurses who will be helping to collect data for the nurse's research study. The nurse is explaining the study's theoretical framework, likening it to:
ANA International Council of Nurses Nursing specialty organizations
Research is included as an essential component of nursing by which of the following organizations? (Select all that apply.)
Providing foot care for the client
The nurse is caring for a client who was recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. Which action demonstrates that the nurse is using the Basic Needs theory?
The project lacks sufficient safeguards to protect human subjects.
The nurse is preparing to submit a research project to the institutional review board (IRB). The nurse understands that if the IRB were to reject the research project, it would most likely be for which reason?
Independent
The nurse researcher is aware that the type of variable that can be manipulated in a study is which type of variable?
deductive reasoning
The process of considering an idea as a whole and then dividing it into smaller, more specific ideas is which?
"What were the results of each study?" "Are the results of each study valid and reliable?" 'Will the results of each study improve client care?"
The researcher must critically appraise evidence following a literature review. Which questions should the researcher pose in this appraisal? (Select all that apply.)
Identifying what one needs to know or is curious about Deciding the approach to seeking the answer Devising a plan Implementing the plan Assessing the outcomes
The scientific process and nursing research have the same methodologies for investigating and solving problems. Place the steps of the scientific process and nursing research in order.
Hypothesis
The statement, "More frequent handwashing will significantly lower the rate of infection in hospitalized clients," is an example of what research component?
P: The nurse chooses the population involved (orthopedic clients). I: The nurse considers interventions to make the plan work. C: The nurse compares the written records to the computerized records.
A nurse manager is attempting to switch the medical records in an orthopedic office to a computerized format. The nurse asks questions about the accuracy and efficiency of the current record keeping system by using the PICO format. Which statements illustrate the components of this process? Select all that apply.
Decrease infection rates
A nurse researcher develops a foreground question in preparation for conducting a research study. The question is: "In clients with intravenous catheters, how does replacing administration sets every 72 hours (h) compared with other frequent intervals (24h, 48h, or 96h) decrease infection rates?" Applying the PICO framework, which part of the statement reflects the "O"?
Quantitative research
A nurse researcher is collecting nominal data. What type of research is being conducted?
Independent variable
A nurse researcher is involved in an experimental research study. Which component would the nurse researcher manipulate?
Access Usage Sharing
A nurse researcher is reviewing the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and finds information about handling protected health information (PHI). The nurse researcher would most likely find rules for which aspects of PHI? Select all that apply.
Applied research
A nurse researcher who plans to collect and analyze data for the purpose of improving clinical practice should select which method of research?
General systems theory
A nursing theorist examines a hospital environment by studying each ward and how it works individually, and then relates this information to the hospital as a whole working entity. This is an example of the use of which theory?
Boundaries separate health care systems both from each other and from the environment.
A nursing theorist studies health care systems in communities. Which statement accurately describes a characteristic of these systems?
indicate the population.
A well-constructed problem statement formulated at the beginning of a nursing research study should:
Attempting to understand non-English speaking immigrants' experiences of being hospital clients
For which research activity is a phenomenological research method most appropriate?
General systems theory
In order for the nurse to be able to apply the knowledge that has been obtained in the formal education process, which theory would best break whole concepts into parts and then determine how the parts would work together as a whole?
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
In selecting sources to include in a literature review for a nursing research project, which would be most helpful?
Nursing research
If a nurse describes a study of people and the nursing profession including studies of education, policy development, ethics, and nursing history, then what is the nurse defining?
The treatment of interest
A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICO format. Which is represented by the letter I?
nursing education and teaching
From 1900 to 1940, research in nursing focused on:
