Nursing Research

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Emily Stever
Quiz by Emily Stever, updated more than 1 year ago
Emily Stever
Created by Emily Stever over 8 years ago
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Question 1

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What is the acronym used for creating a Quantitative research question? And what does this acronym mean?
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  • PICOT -- Population, Intervention, Control, Outcome, Time
  • PCOTI -- Population, Control, Outcome, Time, Intervention
  • PTCIO -- Population, time, Control, Intervention, Outcome

Question 2

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You would use the acronym PICO(T) with a research question similar to this: Among newborns (0-14 days), what is the effectiveness of glucose formula vs. exclusive breastmilk on controlling glucose levels of newborns with abnormal glucose levels over 2 days?
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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You would use the PECO acronym when asking [blank_start]causation/ risk[blank_end] and use the PICO acronym when your research question is asking [blank_start]effectiveness/ treatment[blank_end]
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  • effectiveness/ treatment
  • causation/ risk

Question 4

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Check all that apply. What approaches are used during Qualitative research?
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  • paradigm
  • phenomenology
  • ethnography
  • grounded theory

Question 5

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Finish the sentence. Double- blind means both researcher and participant don't [blank_start]know who is receiving the intervention.[blank_end]
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  • know who is receiving the intervention.

Question 6

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This diagram shows a
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  • negative correlation
  • positive correlation
  • no correlation
  • absence of correlation

Question 7

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A Pearson r of -0.56 is explained as:
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  • A strong, negative correlation between 2 variables.
  • A moderately negative regression value
  • A moderately negative correlation between 2 variables.
  • A negative hypothesis.

Question 8

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You read that a large proportion of woman abused by their male partner, first started being abused during the couple’s first pregnancy. You want to learn the essence of this experience from the victims who agree to speak with you. You construct a qualitative question at the interpretive level. Among (P) [blank_start]female victims of male partner abuse[blank_end] that (S) first started during the [blank_start]couple’s first pregnancy,[blank_end] what is (or was) their lived experience?
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  • female victims of male partner abuse
  • female victims
  • pregnant women
  • couple’s first pregnancy,
  • pregnancy
  • having a baby

Question 9

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Quantitative methodology is used to ask questions that are [blank_start]descriptive[blank_end], [blank_start]cause/effect[blank_end] and Qualitative methodology is used to ask questions that are [blank_start]relationship[blank_end], [blank_start]lived experience[blank_end]
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  • descriptive
  • cause/effect
  • relationship
  • lived experience
  • cause/effect
  • relationship
  • lived experience
  • relationship
  • cause/effect
  • descriptive
  • lived experience
  • lived experience
  • relationship
  • descriptive
  • cause/effect

Question 10

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ou think that being overweight as a teenager is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes in adults generally, i.e., in all populations. Construct a quantitative, causation question. What is the risk of (O) [blank_start]type 2 diabetes[blank_end] among (P) [blank_start]adults generally who were[blank_end] (E) [blank_start]overweight as a teenager[blank_end] compared to (C) [blank_start]those who were not overweight.[blank_end]
Answer
  • type 2 diabetes
  • adults generally who were
  • overweight as a teenager
  • those who were not overweight.

Question 11

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You wonder if healthy women in normal labour should be having continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). You think there may be a risk in continuous EFM. Write the following quantitative, causation question.
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  • What are the risks of continuous EFM among healthy women in normal labour?
  • What is the risk of complications among normal, healthy labouring women who have continuous EFM versus intermittent EFM?
  • What are the benefits of continuous EFM versus intermittent EFM among normal, healthy labouring women?
  • What are the perceived risks of continuous EFM among healthy women in normal labour?

Question 12

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Which of the following resources represents the most comprehensive source for nursing literature?
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  • CINAHL
  • World Wide Web
  • The Canadian Nurse
  • MEDLINE

Question 13

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If you are interested in learning about a new clinical issue, a systematic review will likely provide a better introduction than an original research report.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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You think breastfeeding is the best for newborns. You wonder why some women choose not to breastfeed and construct a qualitative, descriptive question. Which of the following research questions best describes your interest?
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  • Among postpartum mothers who choose to breast feed, what are their perspectives on their choice of feeding their infant?
  • Among mothers who formula feed, what are their perspectives on their choice to not breast feed their children?
  • Among postpartum mothers who formula feed, what are their perspectives on their choice to formula feed their infant?
  • Among postpartum, first-time mothers who formula feed, what are their perspectives on their choice to formula feed their infant?

Question 15

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You want to understand, at a qualitative, interpretive level, the Italian family’s experience of losing an immediate family member to cancer, and your question reflects the grounded theory method.
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  • Among bereaved Italian families, what are the cultural patterns/practices surrounding the death of an immediate family member?
  • Among Italian families, what are their cultural postmortem beliefs?
  • Among bereaved Italian families, what are their opinions surrounding the cancer-related death of an immediate family member?
  • Among Italian families, what are their lived experiences surrounding the death of an immediate family member?

Question 16

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Typically, under what conditions does a staff nurse identify a research problem?
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  • In the course of caring for patients
  • When told to do so by the unit manager
  • Through interaction with a nursing instructor and her students
  • Through literature review

Question 17

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Which of the following is an appropriate method of “weeding out” irrelevant sources when conducting an electronic search for articles for the literature review on a selected topic?
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  • Collecting and critically reading all articles related to the topic published in the last 10 years.
  • Avoiding articles that do not include the term “study” in the title.
  • Avoiding articles from clinical journals.
  • Selecting for printout only those articles whose abstracts indicate usefulness.

Question 18

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Which of the following factors limits the usefulness of the World Wide Web as a source of information for research consumers?
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  • Downloading being a slow process at times
  • Nontext capabilities that reduce the professionalism of presentations
  • Poor quality control over the information on some Web sites
  • Much of the available information being too technical to be understood by the casual reader

Question 19

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Which of the following selections demonstrates a Boolean connection?
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  • Explode topic
  • Limit to abstracts
  • Search from 1995 to 2001
  • Search diabetes diagnosis and treatment

Question 20

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What process would you, as a nurse, engage in before attempting to apply the results of a qualitative study in your own practice?
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  • Replication of the study.
  • Validation of the findings through interaction with people similar to study participants.
  • Examination of the credentials of the person who conducted the study.
  • Use of triangulation to compare the study findings with those obtained by other investigations of the same phenomenon.
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