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N547 Review Questions With Complete SolutionsA group of oncology nurses studied the effect of participation in
a structured exercise program of walking following mastectomy.
The study purpose was to determine whether mild exercise
decreased reported side effects of chemotherapy at 3, 6, and 9
months during the intervention period. The control group
received chemotherapy without the structured program of
exercise. This study is an example of which of the following?
A. applied research
B. basic research
C. correlational research
D. descriptive research Correct Answer A
A hypothetical population is:
A. a list of all members of the accessible population
B. a population that is not generated from real clinical situations,
but a population that is anticipated by the researcher
C. a population that cannot be defined because a list of all
members of that population cannot be obtained
D. found only in large databases Correct Answer C
A major focus of ongoing research in nursing is the development
and refinement of sets of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
Which one of the following best defines a nursing-sensitive
patient outcome indicator?
A. an incident of harm to a nurse, resulting from a patient-care
encounter
B. a common action performed by a nurse that is especially
sensitive to the nurse's mood or general healthiness and well-
being
,C. a patient outcome that is at least partially attributable to
nurses or nursing
D. a positive outcome accruing to a patient because of a nurse's
sensitivity Correct Answer C
A master's in nursing FNP student's total score on a multiple-
choice final pharmacology examination is an example of which
level of measurement?
A. ratio
B. interval
C. nominal
D. ordinal Correct Answer B
a nurse is hoping to study the effects of exercise on stress in
nursing students. Prior to designing the study, a literature search
is conducted using the terms "stress" AND "nursing student."
The best database for the search is likely:
A. Medline
B. CINAHL
C. Academic Search Premier
D. PsycARTICLES Correct Answer B
A nurse midwife has conducted a qualitative study exploring
women's disenfranchised grief following an abortion (that is, her
sense of not being able to grieve or discuss her sense of loss
openly following the procedure). As she analyzes the narratives
gathered, which type of reasoning will she use to gain a better
understanding of this phenomenon?
A. dialectic
B. inductive
C. deductive
,D. operational Correct Answer A
A nurse researcher who studies nurses' job satisfaction plans a
study to examine the characteristics of ICU travel nurses and the
extent to which these nurses differ, with respect to job
satisfaction scores, from other ICU nurses who are not travelers.
What type of quantitative research design is this?
A. comparative descriptive design
B. correlational design
C. time-dimensional design
D. Quasi-experimental design Correct Answer A
A nurse who works at a women's clinic wishes to study the
experience of women with eating disorders who have
experienced a miscarriage. Which one of the following research
questions reflects a phenomenological approach?
A. what is it like for women with eating disorders who have
experienced a miscarriage?
B. between 1990 and 2010 in London, what agencies arose that
were capable of providing support for women with eating
disorders who had experienced miscarriage?
C. is the depression following miscarriage more severe in
women with eating disorders than in women without eating
disorders?
D. within the culture of women with eating disorders, what are
common supportive gestures extended to a woman who has
miscarried? Correct Answer A
A quasi-experimental design is an interventional design that
lacks which of the following? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
A. random assignment
, B. random selection
C. the presence of a separate and distinct control group
D. a researcher-enacted intervention
E. measurement off effect of the intervention Correct Answer
A, C, D
A researcher interviews 14 participants, analyzes the data, and
produces a framework presenting ideas that seem to be
connected with willingness to undergo routine colonoscopy at
recommended intervals. The ideas are family history of colon
cancer, marital status, presence of polyps with initial
colonoscopy, and religious belief. What type of research is this?
A. exploratory-descriptive
B. phenomenology
C. grounded theory research
D. ethnography Correct Answer C
A researcher proposes that adolescent pregnancy rates are
associated with communication effectiveness, study skills,
knowledge of the basic facts of sex and reproduction, home
visitation support, and peer support. This is an example of which
of the following?
A. a relational statement
B. a conceptual mapping
C. a hierarchical statement set
D. a directional hypothesis Correct Answer A
A researcher reports that the effect of his intervention did not
lead to statistically significant differences between the
intervention and control groups. Changes in scores were,
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