Professional Nursing Practice
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Professional Nursing Practice offers an in-depth exploration of the roles, responsibilities, and standards associated with the nursing profession. This course covers foundational principles such as evidence-based care, patient advocacy, ethical and legal considerations, and interprofessional collaboration. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, effective communication skills, and cultural competence in providing holistic patient care. Students will gain insight into leadership, professional development, and strategies for adapting to changes in healthcare systems, preparing them for the dynamic and evolving landscape of modern nursing.
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Nursing Research in Canada 4th Edition by
Geri LoBiondo Wood
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Chapter 1: The Role of Research in Nursing
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Q1) Why are nursing practice-oriented scientific investigations valuable?
A) They validate the effectiveness of particular nursing interventions.
B) They encourage consumers to question the quality of health care.
C) They limit the theory base for clinical decision making.
D) They mandate health care reform.
Answer: A
Q2) In designating research functions to nursing staff,which of the following functions would you designate to a staff registered nurse?
A) Protecting human participants by promoting the ethical principles of research
B) Providing expert consultation about the way in which clinical services are delivered
C) Developing methods to monitor the quality of nursing practice in the clinical setting
D) Providing leadership by assisting others in applying scientific knowledge in nursing practice
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
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Q1) When reading an article reporting the results of nursing research,you find that the framework has been drawn from a discipline other than nursing.What should you consider when critiquing this aspect of the article?
A) Has the author clearly indicated the meaning of the framework to the study and linked the framework to nursing?
B) Does the author have special expertise or education in the discipline from which the framework has been derived?
C) Does the research have implications across disciplines?
D) Is the author a recognized leader in nursing?
Answer: A
Q2) What is the purpose of a conceptual model?
A) To move concepts from a concrete frame of reference to a more abstract one
B) To move concepts from an abstract frame of reference to a more concrete one
C) To reduce the abstraction of an operational definition
D) To allow testing of grand theories
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Critical Reading Strategies: Overview of the
Research Process
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Q1) Which of the following statements in a research abstract or article identifies "gaps" in knowledge?
A) "Comparing the same individuals at ages 13 and 23, O'Malley and Bachman (1983) reported an increase in self-esteem."
B) "While 39% of people on the kidney waiting list are from a minority racial group, only 23% of deceased donor organ recipients are from the same group."
C) "Although grandparents are increasingly a focus in the literature on ageing and older adults, very little attention has been given to experiences of grandfathers caring for grandchildren, with the experiences of men of colour in these roles receiving the least consideration."
D) "A significant portion of the morbidity and mortality associated with coronary heart disease is related to patient delay in seeking treatment for symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS)."
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Developing Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Clinical Questions
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Q1) Review the abstract information provided below and identify the dependent variable for this study. "Across time,increases in social support and marriage were associated with increased psychological well-being,whereas longer periods of unemployment were connected with higher depression and lower self-esteem."
A) "Social support"
B) "Marriage"
C) "Psychological well-being"
D) "Unemployment"
Q2) Which of the following statements about independent and dependent variables is true?
A) All research problem statements must contain a dependent variable and an independent variable.
B) There should only be one dependent variable associated with a single independent variable.
C) The relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable for any study must be causal.
D) A given characteristic or situation may be a dependent variable in one study and an independent variable in another.
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Chapter 5: Finding and Appraising the Literature
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Q1) How is the review of literature different for reports of qualitative studies and reports of quantitative studies?
A) Literature review has no role in qualitative research.
B) Articles for literature review in qualitative studies are largely drawn from secondary sources.
C) In many cases the literature review for a qualitative study is not conducted until after the study has been completed.
D) The processes involved in literature review are the same for both qualitative and quantitative studies.
Q2) Some reviews of the literature are organized according to A) retrieved materials.
B) theoretical summaries.
C) importance of the author.
D) variables being studied.
Q3) Where is the literature review typically found in a research report?
A) In the abstract
B) In the Discussion section
C) Following the Methods section
D) After the beginning of the report
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Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) In Canada,the ethical standards for nursing practice come from
A) the Criminal Code.
B) the provincial legislation.
C) the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) professional Code of Ethics.
D) the Regulated Health Professions Act.
Q2) An adult participant receives an informed consent form to participate in a study on breast cancer in women younger than the age of 35.The study's informed consent process should include which elements?
A) The participant's meeting the REB members who approved the study
B) The participant's being informed of risks associated with the study
C) The participant's being informed of the study protocol
D) The participant's being given the right to decline participation at any time
E) The participant's being assured that her confidentiality will be maintained
Q3) A staff nurse overhears a health care professional use coercion to make a patient agree to participate in a research study.What should the staff nurse do?
A) Confront the researcher with concerns.
B) Document suspicions in the patient's medical record.
C) Contact the hospital's REB.
D) Secretly record the researcher's interaction with a potential participant.
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Chapter 7: Introduction to Qualitative Research
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Q1) A qualitative nursing research approach will be most suitable for which of the following research topics?
A) Experiences of elder abuse among diverse ethnic populations
B) Reduction of prehospital delay in the face of acute coronary syndrome symptoms
C) Examining trajectories of depressive symptoms among young adults
D) Perceived risk and willingness to interact with individuals with HIV or AIDS
Q2) Which of the following factors in a research report indicates that the study used a qualitative design?
A) Hypotheses are stated.
B) The sample is described as convenient.
C) Study participants are described as informants.
D) Participants were asked to complete a forced-choice questionnaire to measure their understanding of the topic.
Q3) The term triangulation refers to
A) a mathematical technique.
B) combining different methods, theories, data sources, or investigators.
C) information collected becoming repetitive.
D) possible applications of the results of qualitative studies.
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Chapter 8: Qualitative Approaches to Research
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Q1) Which of the following is considered the foundation of the grounded theory method of qualitative research?
A) Cultural anthropology
B) Spirituality or religiosity
C) Philosophy, art, and science
D) Symbolic interaction and social science
Q2) What forms the final synthesis of participants' descriptions after a researcher has analyzed data from a phenomenological study?
A) Description of the lived experience
B) Identification of thought sequences
C) Generalization of the findings
D) Classification of themes
Q3) What is the purpose of a "grounded theory" research design?
A) To ensure that the theory used has appropriate philosophical underpinnings
B) To move a concept from the perceived view to the received view
C) To test a theory for its specific application
D) To examine patterns of action and interaction between and among various types of social units
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Chapter 9: Introduction to Quantitative Research
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Q1) For which type of quantitative study is the issue of control less important?
A) Paper-and-pencil
B) Exploratory
C) Experimental
D) Correlational
Q2) A study is examining the effect of a new antilipemic drug,compared with placebo,on lipoprotein levels in postmenopausal women.Which of these actions represents the researcher's attempt at constancy in data collection to control extraneous variables?
A) Drawing the serum lipoprotein levels of all participants at the same time of day
B) Having the same phlebotomist draw serum lipoprotein levels of all participants
C) Using the same room for drawing blood for lipoprotein levels of all participants
D) Ensuring that all participants are postmenopausal women taking lipid-lowering medication
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Chapter 10: Experimental and Quasiexperimental Designs
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Q1) Control is important in an experimental research study for which of these reasons?
A) It ensures maintenance of participant confidentiality.
B) It introduces one or more constants into the experimental situation.
C) It prevents data collection from extending beyond the original time specified for the study.
D) It ensures a cause-and-effect relationship between independent and dependent variables.
Q2) What aspect should be the primary consideration in critiquing the research report of an experimental study and determining the validity of the conclusions presented?
A) How well the researcher controlled for extraneous variables
B) The number of participants who dropped out of the control and experimental groups
C) The credentials and previous experience of the researcher
D) The number of persons involved in the data collection process
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Chapter 11: Non-Experimental Designs
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Q1) A nurse researcher will choose to use a developmental study design to do what?
A) Allow comparison of the results of qualitative studies of a phenomenon to the results of quantitative studies of the same phenomenon
B) Allow reanalysis of existing data for a secondary purpose not stated in the original research
C) Allow exploration of the changing nature of relationships between variables over time
D) Allow development or refinement of a tool or instrument
Q2) What study type is indicated by data collection at only one point in time?
A) Cross-sectional
B) Retrospective
C) Longitudinal
D) Prospective
Q3) A nurse researcher would decide to use a retrospective or ex post facto study for which reason?
A) Obtaining informed consent is not an important issue.
B) There is maximal opportunity to manipulate the independent variable.
C) The dependent variable is measured at multiple times to examine maturation.
D) The dependent variable has already been affected by the independent variable.
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Chapter 12: Sampling
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Q1) A nurse researcher opts to use a stratified sample in a research study for which reason?
A) The sample population is divided into subsets that are homogeneous for a particular trait or feature.
B) The sample population is divided into subsets for random assignment into an intervention or a usual-care group.
C) The sample population is randomly assigned to a specific subgroup that will vary from the others on the basis of type of treatment.
D) The sample population is randomly assigned to a specific subgroup that will vary from the others on the basis of treatment duration.
Q2) What type of sampling strategy is represented when every fourth postsecondary student who registers for a specific course is selected into the treatment group?
A) Cluster sampling
B) Systematic sampling
C) Simple random sampling
D) Stratified random sampling
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Chapter 13: Data Collection Methods
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Q1) Which of the following factors or issues are most important in deciding on a method of data collection for a specific research study?
A) The number of hypotheses or research questions and the experience of the investigator
B) The nature of the research question and the specific population to be studied
C) The cost of the instrument and the amount of research effort involved
D) The number of co-investigators on the study and the educational preparation of the primary investigator
Q2) What is the most important issue in the data-collection phase of research?
A) Flexibility in data collection
B) Consistency in data collection
C) Accurate interpretation of the data collected
D) Averaging of numerical scores to reduce the effect of outliers
Q3) Which data-collection method can be assessed by asking,"Is there clear indication that the participants understood the task and the questions?"
A) Questionnaires
B) Interviews
C) Physiological measurement
D) Records and databases
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Chapter 14: Rigour in Research
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Q1) An ear temperature probe that consistently reports body temperature at a degree lower than the patient's actual temperature has what type of reliability or validity problem?
A) Reduced reliability, systematic error
B) Reduced validity, random error
C) Increased validity, systematic error
D) Increased validity, random error
Q2) A researcher who is developing a new instrument to measure pain has been told by experts and patients that the instrument has face validity.What should be the researcher's next step?
A) Use the instrument in a parent study
B) Use the instrument in a pilot study
C) Assess the reliability of the instrument
D) Assess the content validity of the instrument
Q3) A nurse researcher determines an instrument's homogeneity using which type of reliability?
A) Split-half reliability
B) Test-retest reliability
C) Inter-rater reliability
D) Alternate-form reliability
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Chapter 15: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following computer programs can be used to help researchers in qualitative data management?
A) SPSS
B) QSR NVivo
C) Minitab
D) EPI DATA
Q2) A student is critiquing a research report of a phenomenological research study that examines the lived experience of domestic violence.Which of the following answers is consistent with elements of a qualitative research report for a phenomenological research study?
A) Data from participants are presented in the form of narrative text.
B) The researcher details the natural setting in which field work was conducted.
C) The data analysis section discusses use of a statistical software package.
D) The sampling section indicates that all participants must currently be in an unstable domestic relationship.
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Chapter 16: Quantitative Data Analysis
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Q1) The nurse researcher is interested in describing and summarizing the characteristics of the sample used in the research study.In order for this to occur,the researcher should use what?
A) Inferential statistics
B) Descriptive statistics
C) Nonparametric statistics
D) Mathematical statistics
Q2) The nurse researcher's data contain extremes of high and low scores.The measure of central tendency that should be used in order to be least affected by extremes of high and low scores is what?
A) Mean
B) Mode
C) Median
D) Percentile
Q3) What is indicated by a correlation?
A) The most frequently occurring score
B) Variability of scores from the mean
C) Range of the middle 50% of the scores
D) Magnitude and direction of the relationship between variables
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Chapter 17: Presenting the Findings
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Q1) Which section of the report allows the researcher to determine if evidence provided in the findings validates current practice or supports the need for change?
A) Results
B) Discussion
C) Recommendations
D) Methods
Q2) A nurse researcher should include what in a research report's "Results" section?
A) Hypothesis or research question
B) Descriptive statistics
C) Literature review
D) Theoretical framework
Q3) The findings of a study include what?
A) Data collection and transcription
B) Results and discussion
C) Descriptive analysis and inferential analysis
D) Theoretical framework and conceptualization
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Chapter 18: Critiquing Qualitative Research
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Q1) Which of the following titles is appropriate for a qualitative study?
A) Exploring the Relationship Between Age of Teen and Degree of Maternal Bonding
B) Evaluating Decision-Making Coaching Intervention in Cancer Treatment
C) Using Virtual Reality as a Distraction Method During Chemotherapy
D) Understanding Tradition of Fetal Genital Mutilation
Q2) How can qualitative research contribute to the development of structured research instruments such as surveys?
A) A qualitative study can take the place of a survey, reducing the need for research instruments.
B) The numeric data that result from a qualitative study will guide instrument development.
C) A preliminary study can help the researcher ground the survey questions in the reality of human experience.
D) Only quantitative research can contribute to the development of structured research instruments.
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Chapter 19: Critiquing Quantitative Research
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Q1) Which critical appraisal question would evaluate the review of the literature of a research report?
A) Is there a synthesis summary that presents the overall strengths and weaknesses and arrives at a logical conclusion that generates hypotheses or research questions?
B) What are the sources of bias, and are they dealt with appropriately?
C) How have the purpose, aims, or goals of the study been substantiated?
D) To what population may the findings be generalized? What are the limitations in generalizability?
Q2) A study abstract includes the following statement: "There was a negative relationship between infants with difficult behavioural styles and maternal involvement." The most accurate interpretation of the statement is what?
A) The more difficult the infant was, the more involved the mother was.
B) The more difficult the infant was, the less involved the mother was.
C) The less difficult the infant was, the less involved the mother was.
D) There was no relationship between infant behaviour and maternal involvement.
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Chapter 20: Developing an Evidence-Informed Practice
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Q1) The use of research findings to promote the adoption of evidence-informed practice guidelines can be described as
A) dissemination activities.
B) translating research into practice (TRIP).
C) research utilization.
D) critiquing findings.
Q2) Evidence-informed practice (EIP)is defined as
A) the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.
B) promoting the publication of research findings among practising nurses.
C) the process of using research findings to improve patient care.
D) collecting data from participants using measurement devices.
Q3) Which of the following is the term for data that are collected to assess patient satisfaction,staff outcomes,or fiscal differences as a result of specific interventions?
A) Process measures
B) Outcome measures
C) Secondary measures
D) Compliance measures
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