Deck 10: The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice

Question 1

What is the current name of the agency that serves as an important source of funding for nursing research?

A) NIH
B) National Institute of Nursing Research
C) National Center for Nursing Research
D) National Nursing Research Agenda

Answer 1

National Institute of Nursing Research

Question 2

Translational research/science will do which of the following?

A) Result in biomedical research becoming less flexible in response to the needs of society
B) Limit interdisciplinary research because this does not enhance patient care
C) Take laboratory findings for development for use with patients at the bedside
D) Use clinical research findings to ask new questions for research in the laboratory
E) Discover practical applications for scientific theories and laws.

Answer 2

Take laboratory findings for development for use with patients at the bedside
Use clinical research findings to ask new questions for research in the laboratory

Question 3

An intensive care unit (ICU)nurse notices that patients seem to have more normal vital signs when they are being visited by their family members,especially when the visitors seem to be more "caring." However,the hospital has strict visiting hours of 10 minutes every other hour.What would be the most appropriate research question to ask at this time?

A) What is patient and family satisfaction with visitation time?
B) What is the relationship between length of visitation and vital signs?
C) What are the vital signs of ICU patients when visited by caring visitors in comparison with when they are alone?
D) Do ICU patients have vital signs in the normal range more frequently when they are being visited by family members?

Answer 3

Do ICU patients have vital signs in the normal range more frequently when they are being visited by family members?

Question 4

Which of the following must be included in the informed consent in research?

A) Participants relinquish the right to privacy.
B) Once participants agree to participate, they must complete the study.
C) Participants need to know the funding source for the research.
D) Participants must be informed of risks associated with participation.

Question 5

Which research design should be used to determine whether there is a difference in the effectiveness of two preoperative preparation methods on length of stay?

A) Survey design
B) Experimental design
C) Nonexperimental design
D) Descriptive comparison design

Question 6

Which of the following are the three most common sources of research questions?

A) Study of clinical problems, anecdotal stories, requests by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
B) Requests by drug companies, doctoral students, review of the literature
C) Clinical problems, replication of prior research, testing nursing theory
D) Review of existing research, NIH grants, request by state board of nursing

Question 7

To build the body of knowledge of nursing,a problem amenable to study should be

A) able to ensure participants that the intervention is a "good idea."
B) based on published research findings and fit logically with what is already known.
C) an original area of study never researched previously.
D) able to produce results that are applicable to a variety of situations.

Question 8

Evidence-based nursing practice involves which of the following?

A) The use of the best evidence available supporting the interventions
B) The use of randomized controlled trials only versus qualitative studies
C) The expertise of the professional nurse
D) Resources to identify practices that have traditionally been used in nursing practice
E) The preferences of the individual patients and their families

Question 9

For data collection to be valid,what must occur?

A) The tool must be thorough.
B) The tool must be unbiased.
C) The tool must measure what it is supposed to measure.
D) The tool must be accurate all of the time.

Question 10

Which research design has the goal of determining a cause-and-effect relationship?

A) Experimental design
B) Nonexperimental design
C) Pure research
D) Applied research

Question 11

Which research design would be used to determine the relationship between self-concept,physical fitness,and health habits in school-aged children?

A) Experimental design
B) Nonexperimental design
C) Applied research design
D) Pretest and posttest design

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a research question based on a clinical problem?

A) Published observations of a nurse who practiced many years in elder care
B) Nursing intuition about what measures are most useful with anxious patients before surgery
C) Stories of a flight nurse's experiences with posttraumatic stress disorder
D) Relationship between hours of bright light and irritability of preterm infants

Question 13

A data collection protocol calls for a questionnaire to be administered to patients having knee replacement surgery after the third physical therapy appointment.Errors can be introduced into the study by

A) giving the questionnaire to all participants.
B) reading the questionnaire to the participants with poor reading skills.
C) giving the questionnaire to all participants when they arrive for their appointment.
D) giving the questionnaire to the participants after the appointment to be completed while they have a snack.

Question 14

What is meant by the term "evidence-based practice"?

A) Using nursing research findings to develop nursing theory
B) Integrating the research process into nursing administration
C) Studying research from the social sciences and applying it to practice
D) Applying research findings; patient care data, preferences, and values; and nursing expertise to nursing practice

Question 15

Which of the following is not a necessary step in the research process?

A) Review of the literature
B) Review of best practice guidelines
C) Design of the study
D) Dissemination of results

Question 16

The discovery of oxygen would be called pure science because this information

A) was obtained for the sake of obtaining new knowledge of the world.
B) had an immediate use for humans.
C) would be useful in curing, managing, or preventing disease.
D) could direct further research at the bedside.

Question 17

What body has been established to protect participants of research?

A) Institutional review board
B) State board of nursing
C) Nursing research board
D) Peer review panel

Question 18

A nursing manager wants the unit staff to become more involved in research.The staff nurses say they are not qualified to conduct research.Which response by the manager is best?

A) "You need a basic understanding of the research process because you should be good consumers of research."
B) "At the staff nurse level, you can assist with clinical studies by doing data collection."
C) "A baccalaureate-prepared nurse should be able to design simple studies."
D) "If we all work on this together, we can design and implement good research studies."

Question 19

Quantitative research methods may be somewhat less useful in nursing because of which of the following?

A) Qualitative methods are the preferred method to study nursing phenomena.
B) Nursing ethics require more stringent controls than are required by quantitative methods.
C) Many phenomena of interest to nurses are not amenable to study in tightly controlled circumstances.
D) The complexity of human beings makes it difficult to break problems into statements that can be tested.
E) Patient perceptions of experiences may have significant effects on their health behaviors.

Question 20

A nurse wants to examine the accuracy of child and parent perceptions of asthma symptoms and their decision making based on their understanding of the symptoms.What specific factors would identify participants?

A) Children 5 to 18 years of age
B) Mothers of the children
C) Children with a history of pneumonia
D) Families living in rural areas
E) Ethnicity

Question 21

Dissemination of findings may involve which of the following activities?

A) Manuscript reviewed by peers
B) Oral presentation of findings at annual conference of the Society of Pediatric Nurses
C) Poster presentation at regional conference of Sigma Theta Tau International
D) Publication of findings in Western Journal of Nursing Research
E) PowerPoint slides developed showing charts and graphs of the statistical results