NUR 302 - Chapter 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,16

Which of the following groups would be best served by the development of a scientific base for nursing practice? A) Nursing administrators B) Practicing nurses C) Nurses' clients D) Health care policymakers C. An especially important goal for the nursing profession is to do which of the f...

Which of the following terms would likely be used only by qualitative researchers, as opposed to quantitative researchers, to refer to people who participate in a study? A) Informants B) Study participants C) Subjects D) Investigators A Which of the following terms is used by both qualitat...

Nurses are most likely to encounter research results in which of the following? Select all that apply. A) Poster sessions B) Journal articles C) Textbooks D) Dissertations A, B When a research report undergoes a "blind" review for a journal, it means which of the following? A) The journ...

Based on what we know from this chapter, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study violated which of the following? Select all that apply. A) Freedom from harm B) Right to self-determination C) Right to fair treatment D) Privacy rule A, B, C The regulations affecting the ethical conduct of research spon...

The research question, "What is the decision-making process among intensive care unit nurses who decide to discuss spiritual issues with patients?" is which of the following? A) Most likely to be addressed using a quantitative approach B) Most likely to be addressed using a qualitative approach ...

Which of the following would be a primary source for a research literature review? A) A meta-analysis appearing in the Cochrane Reviews B) A metasynthesis published in the journal Qualitative Health Research C) An experimental study published in the journal Research in Nursing & Health D) A syst...

A set of logically interrelated propositions is associated with which of the following? A) Schematic model B) Conceptual model C) Classical theory D) Descriptive theory C The power of theories lies in their ability to do which of the following? A) Explain large segments of human experienc...

The first major step that a researcher must undertake in a qualitative analysis is which of the following? A) A search for major themes B) A search for appropriate metaphors C) The use of quasi-statistics D) Developing a system for organizing and indexing the data D Before the advent of co...

Sampling may be defined as which of the following? A) Selection of an accessible population for a study B) Selection of a subset of a population to represent the entire population C) Assignment of study participants to treatment groups D) Technique for ensuring that every element in the populati...