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Course Introduction
Nursing Research is a foundational course that introduces students to the principles and methods of scientific inquiry within the field of nursing. The course covers topics such as research design, data collection and analysis, literature review, ethics in research, and the application of evidence-based practice. Students learn to critically appraise published studies, develop research questions, and understand quantitative and qualitative methodologies. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the essential skills to contribute to nursing research and apply research findings to improve patient care and healthcare outcomes.
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Nursing Research in Canada 4th Edition by Geri
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Chapter 1: The Role of Research in Nursing
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Q1) Which action demonstrates the role of an intelligent consumer of nursing research?
A) Designing a research study
B) Analyzing data to determine outcomes
C) Evaluating the credibility of the research findings
D) Replicate the study in another setting to confirm the findings
Answer: C
Q2) How does an international research perspective contribute to the discipline and science of nursing?
A) By unifying the definition of the term health
B) By increasing the dissemination potential of research findings
C) By emphasizing the cultural aspects of nursing care
D) By testing innovative and cost-effective patient care delivery models
Answer: D
Q3) 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
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
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Q1) When critiquing a research article,what is the most important issue the reader should consider about the concepts of the study?
A) The theoretical interrelatedness of the concepts
B) Whether the study is qualitative or quantitative in nature
C) The specific meanings the researcher has ascribed to the study concepts
D) An in-depth understanding of the grand theory that underpins the study concepts
Answer: C
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
Q3) What is commonly referred to as scientific knowledge?
A) Ethical
B) Personal
C) Aesthetic
D) Empirical
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Critical Reading Strategies: Overview of the Research Process
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Q1) Why should specific critiquing criteria be used to evaluate the usefulness of research articles? To
A) enhance comprehension-level understanding
B) determine the reproducibility of the reported findings
C) ensure that all appropriate research steps have been implemented in the study
D) allow broader interpretation or application of the reported findings
Answer: C
Q2) In which section of a research report or study would unexpected findings be presented?
A) "Methods"
B) "Discussion"
C) "Conceptual Framework"
D) "Review of Literature"
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Developing Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Clinical Questions
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Q1) When an idea or a clinical situation has emerged as a potential research problem,what is the next appropriate step?
A) Identifying the variables
B) Formulating a hypothesis
C) Performing a literature review
D) Validating that the problem really exists
Q2) Which type of format is demonstrated by the following research question? "Is there a relationship between self-esteem and body weight among postmenopausal women?"
A) Correlational
B) Comparative nonexperimental
C) Quantitative experimental
D) Phenomenological
Q3) What type of format is demonstrated by the following research question? "What is the lived experience of late-stage pregnancy loss among women over 35?"
A) Correlational
B) Comparative nonexperimental
C) Quantitative experimental
D) Phenomenological
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Chapter 5: Finding and Appraising the Literature
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Q1) What type of article is implied when the author uses the following phrase in the abstract of the article? "A study was conducted."
A) Empirical literature
B) Conceptual literature
C) Clinical literature
D) Informational literature
Q2) How should an article reporting the results of a study that failed to obtain significant findings be categorized?
A) Empirical literature
B) Conceptual literature
C) Clinical literature
D) Informational literature
Q3) Which of the following descriptions or headings is highly indicative of a data-based article?
A) Purpose
B) Conclusions
C) Method
D) Organizing framework
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Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) What are ethical principles that are illustrated by obtaining REB approval?
A) Respect
B) Beneficence
C) Trust
D) Justice
E) Anonymity
F) Confidentiality
Q2) What basic human right exists when participants have the right to withdraw from a study without penalty?
A) Right to self-determination
B) Right to anonymity and confidentiality
C) Right to fair treatment
D) Right to protection from discomfort and harm
Q3) A mother agreed to let her young son participate in a research study because she believed that if she did not agree,her child would be denied drug therapy.What right has been violated in this situation?
A) Voluntary consent
B) Freedom from harm
C) Protection from discomfort
D) Fair and equitable treatment
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Chapter 7: Introduction to Qualitative Research
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Q1) Metasynthesis involves
A) developing typologies as results of qualitative investigations.
B) different hierarchies of evidence as compared with quantitative studies.
C) interpreting various qualitative studies to reveal similarities and differences.
D) a systematic review of the literature involving classic and recent studies.
Q2) Which of the following distinctions is characteristic of qualitative research methods?
A) Data are in text form.
B) Data are dichotomous (either yes or no).
C) Qualitative research does not generate data.
D) Data from qualitative studies are inappropriate for analysis.
Q3) Which of the following study purposes and methodological procedures is inappropriate for qualitative methods?
A) Testing of a new hypothesis
B) Using an intensive approach to data collection
C) Using inductive analysis with the captured data
D) Examining individual responses to a nonmodifiable situation
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Chapter 8: Qualitative Approaches to Research
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Q1) For an ethnographic study titled "How Rural Northern Albertan Families With Preschool Children Define and Practice Health," the researcher gathered data from mothers who were identified as the primary directors of health care within the family unit.What role did the mothers have in this study?
A) Community informants
B) General informants
C) Local informants
D) Key informants
Q2) Which of the following features distinguishes intensive dialogue from a simple interview?
A) The researcher makes detailed notes about the participant's responses during the interview.
B) The researcher is fully engaged, becoming a thoughtful presence during the interview.
C) The researcher develops the interview questions before the actual interview occurs.
D) The researcher completes the questionnaire for the participant to avoid any misunderstanding or confusion.
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Chapter 9: Introduction to Quantitative Research
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Q1) When reviewing a research report,the nurse determines that all aspects of a study systematically and logically follow from the research problem.Which condition has been met?
A) Accuracy
B) Legitimacy
C) Internal validity
D) External validity
Q2) A nurse researcher assigns half a study sample to an experimental group and the other half to a control group.What does this action represent?
A) Instrumentation of the independent variable
B) Manipulation of the mediating variable
C) Elimination of the mediating variable
D) Manipulation of the independent variable
Q3) Which of the following aspect of the study is considered a measure to maintain the uniformity of conditions of a quantitative study?
A) Accuracy
B) Methods
C) Control
D) Validity
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Chapter 10: Experimental and Quasiexperimental Designs
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Q1) A research study in a laboratory setting incorporates four groups (two control and two experimental)in which only one experimental group and one control group are pretested,while all four groups are posttested.Which descriptions of the design are accurate?
A) Experimental design
B) After-only experimental design
C) Real-world experimental design
D) quasi-experimental design
E) Solomon four-group design
Q2) For which of the following studies would an after-only experimental research design be most appropriate?
A) The effect of cause of spousal death on widow self-esteem
B) The effect of preoperative teaching on vascular complications after surgery
C) The effect of a mentorship program on improvement of student performance in a BSN program
D) The effectiveness of using the videotape to teach adolescent men about the warning signs of testicular cancer.
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Chapter 11: Non-Experimental Designs
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Q1) Why would a nurse researcher choose not to use a survey study design?
A) Data analysis is limited with a survey design.
B) Information collected is relatively superficial.
C) Results are never applicable beyond the study population.
D) More participants are required to reach statistical significance than for other study designs.
Q2) How is an ex post facto design more advantageous than a correlational design?
A) This design is easier to carry out.
B) The independent variable can be manipulated in this design.
C) A greater degree of control is possible with this design.
D) This design offers increased flexibility when the relationships among the variables in the study are complex.
Q3) Advantages to use of correlational design for a study include what?
A) Efficiency and effectiveness in data collection
B) Flexibility for investigating complex relationships
C) Multivariate manipulation of variables
D) Strong potential for clinical (real-world) application
E) Increased potential for generalizability
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Chapter 12: Sampling
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Q1) What can a nurse researcher use to restrict the study population to homogeneous groups of participants?
A) Sampling
B) Self-selection
C) Eligibility criteria
D) Defining study limitations
Q2) What is the major characteristic of a stratified sample?
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 group or a usual care group.
C) The sample population is randomly assigned to a specific subgroup that will differ from other groups on the basis of treatment type.
D) The sample population is randomly assigned to a specific subgroup that will differ from other groups on the basis of treatment duration.
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Chapter 13: Data Collection Methods
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Q1) During a research project,the researcher notes that the participant completes each assigned task with a much higher level of performance than he normally exhibits.How should a nurse researcher most accurately describe this change in the participant's behaviour?
A) Reactivity
B) Instability
C) Therapeutic
D) Interventionist
Q2) 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
Q3) What is an example of a physiological measurement?
A) Definition of a type "A" behaviour pattern
B) Description of self-care abilities in patients with dementia
C) Ranges of values on two consecutive arterial blood gas analyses
D) Adjusted scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Scale
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Chapter 14: Rigour in Research
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Q1) The nurse researcher notes that test-retest correlations were r = 0.79 when given over 4-week intervals.This is interpreted to indicate what?
A) Equivalence
B) Discriminability
C) Reliability
D) Homogeneity
Q2) Which type of validity is most difficult to establish?
A) Content validity
B) Construct validity
C) Predictive validity
D) Concurrent validity
Q3) Testing of a new instrument demonstrates that it has a high degree of internal consistency.What does this indicate to the nurse researcher?
A) The instrument is appropriate to use to measure a single concept.
B) The instrument has low measurement error and high error variance.
C) More refinement of the instrument is necessary before it can be applied.
D) The instrument is valid, but the reliability has yet to be determined.
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Chapter 15: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Q1) Why do qualitative researchers include "member checking" in data analysis?
A) To ensure that all participants intend to remain in the study over time
B) To ensure that all participants have experience with the topic of focus
C) To have the participants validate interpretations of the data
D) To ensure that all participants feel comfortable about their participation in the study
Q2) Which of the following is the term for the huge volume of data collected during qualitative research?
A) Essential data
B) Fat data
C) Interview data
D) Observational data
Q3) Which of the following is the kind of data analysis that leads to the development of a cultural inventory?
A) Phenomenological
B) Grounded theory
C) Ethnographic
D) Historical
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Chapter 16: Quantitative Data Analysis
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Q1) In a study of nurses' willingness to care for patients with a contagious disease,it was found that the greater the nurses' spirituality,the greater the willingness to provide care.This finding represents what?
A) No correlation
B) Perfect correlation
C) Positive correlation
D) Negative correlation
Q2) The nurse researcher is interested in estimating how reliably data can be used to generalize the findings of a study.In order for this to occur,the researcher should use what?
A) Inferential statistics
B) Descriptive statistics
C) Nonparametric statistics
D) Mathematical statistics
Q3) What is indicated by a score reported to be in the 75th percentile?
A) The score is at the median.
B) The score has exceeded the mode.
C) The score is exceeded by only 25% of the cases.
D) The score represents the average of all scores measured at this time.
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Chapter 17: Presenting the Findings
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Q1) The quantification of the uncertainty of a statistic is considered what?
A) Confidence interval
B) Retro-evaluation
C) Theoretical critique
D) Interpretation of analysis
Q2) Which section of the report will allow the nurse researcher to determine the strength,quality,and consistency of the evidence provided by the findings?
A) Results
B) Discussion
C) Recommendations
D) Methods
Q3) What is the purpose of the "Discussion" section of a research report?
A) Objective presentation of data
B) Interpretation of the study's meaning
C) Opportunity to thank the researcher's co-workers
D) Examination of the suitability of the research design to its stated purpose
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Chapter 18: Critiquing Qualitative Research
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Q1) What is the formal term for rigour in qualitative research?
A) Identifying metaphors from data
B) Describing the etic view of data
C) Bracketing
D) Trustworthiness
Q2) Participants in qualitative studies may contribute to the design of the study in
A) qualitative research.
B) ethnographic studies.
C) grounded theory studies.
D) phenomenological studies.
Q3) What characteristic of the data analysis confirmed that Leipert and Reutter used grounded theory in their study entitled,"Women's Health in Northern British Columbia: The Role of Geography and Gender"?
A) They developed a cultural inventory.
B) They performed thematic analysis of the women's lived experience.
C) They applied the constant comparative method.
D) They facilitated the development of an action plan.
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Chapter 19: Critiquing Quantitative Research
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Q1) The critical appraisal question that would most accurately evaluate the data-collection methods and procedures of a research report is what?
A) Would it be possible to replicate this study in another clinical setting?
B) Are the results of each hypothesis or research question presented and presented objectively?
C) Did testing of the hypothesis(es) or research question(s) clearly support or not support each hypothesis or research question?
D) Was there an observation guide?
Q2) Which critical appraisal question would evaluate the data analysis of a research report?
A) Would it be possible to replicate this study in another clinical setting?
B) Are the results of each hypothesis or research question presented and presented objectively?
C) Did testing of the hypothesis(es) or research question(s) clearly support or not support each hypothesis or research question?
D) Was there an observation guide?
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Chapter 20: Developing an Evidence-Informed Practice
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Q1) To synthesize the findings from a research critique,a summary table should include 1)the abstract.
2)the research questions.
3)a description of the study sample and setting.
4)the names and academic affiliations of the authors.
A) 2 and 3
B) 2 and 4
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
Q2) 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.
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