Nursing Research Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice 11th Edition Test Bank

1.
What is the highest priority for the
importance of research in the nursing
profession?
A) Research findings provide evidence for
informing nurses’ decisions and actions.
B) Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice.
C) Document the role that nurses serve in
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
2. Which group would be best served by
clinical nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
3. In the United States, in what area does
research play an important role in nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses’ personalities
D) Nurses’ education
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4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing
research?
A) Read research reports for relevant
findings.
B) Participate in generating evidence by
doing research.
C) Participate in journal club in a practice
setting.
D) Solve clinical problems and make clinical
decisions.
5. What was the concern of most nursing
studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
6.
Which topic most closely conforms to the
priorities that have been suggested for
future nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward
smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing
science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
various clinical specialties.
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7. What is the process of deductive
reasoning?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our
heritage.
B) Developing specific predictions from
general principles.
C) Empirically testing observations that are
made known through our senses.
D) Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
8. What is the ontological assumption of
those espousing a naturalistic paradigm?
A) Objective reality and those natural
phenomena are regular and orderly.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard and result
from prior causes.
C) Reality is multiply constructed and
multiply interpreted by humans.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemological assumption of
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
A) The researcher is objective and
independent of those being studied.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather
have antecedent causes.
C)
The researcher instructs those being
studied to be obj