Nursing Research ch 7

Which statement made by the nurse is an example of a hypothesis?

"Among African American persons on antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, poor physical functioning and increased role limitations are related to increased frequency and severity of depressive symptoms."

Which query should the nurse present as a critical appraisal of a quantitative study? Select all that apply.

"Are the study findings linked back to the framework?" "Are the concepts in the framework conceptually defined? "Are the operational definitions of the variables consistent with their associated conceptual definitions?" "Is a research framework explicitly identified and described in the study? If so, what is the name of the theory and theorist used for the framework?"

Which challenges are associated with use of grand nursing theories? Select all that apply.

"Grand nursing theories are abstract and may be difficult to apply." "Difficulty in measuring their concepts makes use of grand nursing theory challenging."

The nurse instructor is teaching students about theory. Which statement made by the nurse instructor indicates correct teaching?

"Theories are abstract, rather than concrete."

Which theories should the nurse identify to exemplify middle-range theories for nursing? Select all that apply.

Caring Comfort Inner strength Uncertainty in illness

The nurse is assessing the ability of an elderly patient to maintain self-care. To which grand nursing theory should the nurse attribute the goal of providing nursing care in proportion to the patient's self-care capacity?

Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing

A patient is describing a phenomenon that the patient is experiencing. Which symptom is the patient most likely detailing?

Pain

The nurse is reading a research study in which the researcher uses a newly proposed framework to synthesize concepts and relationships of the research findings. Which method should the nurse recognize is being used?

Tentative theory

Which outcome should the nurse identify as the best outcome reflecting the overall goal of Roy's Adaptation Model (RAM)?

The patient returns to homeostasis and growth is promoted.

The nurse is making use of the findings of a research study in clinical practice. Which element should the nurse define as a core idea that guides practice and research within a scientific discipline? 4

Theory

Which element should the nurse define as a set of concepts and statements that present a view of a phenomenon?

Theory

Which concept is most likely to be encountered by a nurse reading a physiological study?

Tissue hypoxia

Which concepts are examples of middle-range nursing theories? Select all that apply.

caring comfort Inner strength unpleasant symptoms

If a researcher studies the effects of beta blockers on fatigue in chronic heart failure among cardiac patients, what is the concept?

Fatigue

Which statement should the nurse identify as the best description of a theory?

"A theory is an integrated set of concepts and relational statements."

Which questions would be helpful in critically appraising the framework of a research study? Select all that apply.

Are the study findings linked back to the framework? Are concepts in the framework conceptually defined? Is a research framework explicitly identified and described in the study? Are the operational definitions of the variables consistent with their associated conceptual definitions?

Which statements accurately describe frameworks for research? Select all that apply. 10

A portion of a theory might be a framework. A framework guides the development of a study. Some frameworks are poorly expressed or implicit.

Which might a newly proposed framework be called?

A tentative theory

Which aspect of using a grand nursing theory framework should the nurse recognize as the most challenging?

Abstract and difficult-to-measure concepts

Which grand nursing theory contends that people adjust to focal, contextual, and residual stimuli by using a variety of automatic and learned processes and systems?

Adaptation Model

Which example should the nurse associate with a phenomenon?

Anxiety because of giving your first intramuscular injection

Which element should the nurse define as the major ideas of a study?

Concepts

Which concepts should the nurse recognize as being metaparadigm concepts of the nursing discipline? Select all that apply. 10

Health Person Nursing Environment

Which concept should the nurse identify as an example of a scientific theory?

Human Genome Project

Which requirement should the nurse identify as most indicative of critical appraisal of a research framework?

Identification and evaluation of concepts, their definitions, and the statements linking the concepts

Which researcher developed a middle-range theory for nursing about transitions?

Meleis (2010)

Which statements accurately describe middle-range theories? Select all that apply.

Middle-range theories may be deduced from grand nursing theories. Published middle-range theories are referred to as substantive theories. Middle-range theories may be created through a synthesis of theories on a particular subject. Middle-range theories are more closely linked to clinical practice and research than grand nursing theories.

Which element should the nurse define as a rational intellectual exploration of truth or principle of being, knowledge, or conduct?

Philosophy

Which type of middle-range nursing theory should the nurse use to propose specific approaches to particular nursing practice situations?

Practice theory

Which type of nursing theory should the student nurse recognize as designed to propose specific approaches to particular nursing practice situations?

Practice theory

Which term should the nurse recognize as another name for practice theory?

Prescriptive theory

Which theories should the nurse identify to exemplify middle-range theories? Select all that apply.

Swanson's Theory of Caring Reed's Theory of Self-Transcendence Mishel's Theory of Uncertainty in Illness

Which notion would be defined as a construct when analyzing a research study?

Resources

Which grand theory should the nurse define as identifying adaptation as the primary phenomenon of interest to nursing?

Roy's Adaptation Model

Which nursing grand theory's focus is on the way people adapt to stimuli around them?

Roy's Adaptation Model

Which grand nursing theory states persons, who are unitary human beings, and the environment around them are energy fields that interact as open systems?

Science of Unitary Human Beings

Which grand nursing theory guided the judgment of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services to no longer pay for the care of Medicare patients who have been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia if they are admitted again within 30 days of being discharged?

Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing

Which term should the student nurse identify as referring to the concepts and relationships being addressed in a research study leading to clarity?

Situational research

Which element should the nurse define as the conscious awareness of an experience that comprises the lives of humans?

Statement

Which alternative name should the nurse associate with middle-range theories?

Substantive theories

The frameworks for physiological studies are usually created from which areas of research? Select all that apply.

physics genetics physiology pathophysiology