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Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Communication and DocumentationObjective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
1. Which group is best served by the development of a rigorous base of evidencefor nursing
practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Nurse researchersAns:
C
Feedback:
Nurse leaders have recognized the need to base specific nursing decisions on trustworthy evidence
indicating that the decisions are clinically appropriate, cost- effective, and result in positive outcomes
for their clients. Nursing groups benefit from nursing studies, but it is nurses’ clients themselves who
benefit most becauseresearch-based evidence can improve their health and health-related quality of
life.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, What Is Nursing Research?
2. Which is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses have a master’s or doctorate degree?
B) What factors contribute to clients’ risk of falling during a hospitalization?
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C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-basedpractice?
D) What course of action do nursing students pursue when faced with a moraldilemma?
Ans: B
Feedback:
The answers to clinical nursing research questions have the potential to improvethe health and
well-being of nurses’ clients. Clinical nursing research questions
focus directly on clients’ needs, experiences, and health behaviors, and answers to such questions can
inform nurses’ decisions or lead to strategies to improve nursingpractice. Researchers also study nursing
education, but questions about nursing education, as exemplified in the other questions, would not be
considered clinical nursing research questions.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
3. Which goal is the highest priority for research in the nursing profession?
A) To generate evidence to inform nurses’ decisions and actions
B) To conduct research focused on the context of nursing practice
C) To document the role that nurses serve in society
D) To establish priorities for areas of study by nurse researchers
Ans: A
Feedback:
Nurses are increasingly undertaking clinical research, and practicing nurses are expected to base their
practice on evidence from research. Evidence-based practiceinvolves the use of the best evidence in
making patient care decisions and typicallycomes from research conducted by nurses and other health
care professionals. Theother answers are possible goals for the nursing profession, but none is as high a
priority as developing rigorous evidence for practice.
, DOWNLOAD THE Test Bank for Essentials of Nursing Research 10th Edition
Polit
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Understand
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
4. In several countries, research in health care settings has come to play animportant role in
the nursing profession with respect to:
A) providing opportunities to serve on important government policy-making boards.
B) credentialing and improving nurses’ status.
C) strengthening nurses’ bargaining power.
D) supporting better avenues for advanced degrees.
Ans: B
Feedback:
In the United States and in other countries, research plays an important role in nurses’
credentialing and status. In particular, research and efforts to promote evidence-based practice
are key elements of the Magnet recognition program.
Changes to nursing practice now occur regularly because of EBP efforts, and these efforts enhance the
status of the profession. The other answers are possible outcomes of increased research activity
among nurses, but none is as important asthe role of research in enhancing the visibility and credibility
of the profession.Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Analyze
Difficulty: Easy
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 3, Roles of Nurses in Research
Polit
,DOWNLOAD THE Test Bank for Essentials of Nursing Research 10th Edition
Polit
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Communication and DocumentationObjective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
1. Which group is best served by the development of a rigorous base of evidencefor nursing
practice?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses’ clients
D) Nurse researchersAns:
C
Feedback:
Nurse leaders have recognized the need to base specific nursing decisions on trustworthy evidence
indicating that the decisions are clinically appropriate, cost- effective, and result in positive outcomes
for their clients. Nursing groups benefit from nursing studies, but it is nurses’ clients themselves who
benefit most becauseresearch-based evidence can improve their health and health-related quality of
life.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, What Is Nursing Research?
2. Which is an example of a clinical nursing research question?
A) What percentage of nurses have a master’s or doctorate degree?
B) What factors contribute to clients’ risk of falling during a hospitalization?
,DOWNLOAD THE Test Bank for Essentials of Nursing Research 10th Edition
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C) In what ways do nursing students benefit from a course on evidence-basedpractice?
D) What course of action do nursing students pursue when faced with a moraldilemma?
Ans: B
Feedback:
The answers to clinical nursing research questions have the potential to improvethe health and
well-being of nurses’ clients. Clinical nursing research questions
focus directly on clients’ needs, experiences, and health behaviors, and answers to such questions can
inform nurses’ decisions or lead to strategies to improve nursingpractice. Researchers also study nursing
education, but questions about nursing education, as exemplified in the other questions, would not be
considered clinical nursing research questions.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
3. Which goal is the highest priority for research in the nursing profession?
A) To generate evidence to inform nurses’ decisions and actions
B) To conduct research focused on the context of nursing practice
C) To document the role that nurses serve in society
D) To establish priorities for areas of study by nurse researchers
Ans: A
Feedback:
Nurses are increasingly undertaking clinical research, and practicing nurses are expected to base their
practice on evidence from research. Evidence-based practiceinvolves the use of the best evidence in
making patient care decisions and typicallycomes from research conducted by nurses and other health
care professionals. Theother answers are possible goals for the nursing profession, but none is as high a
priority as developing rigorous evidence for practice.
, DOWNLOAD THE Test Bank for Essentials of Nursing Research 10th Edition
Polit
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Understand
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 2, The Importance of Research to Evidence-Based Nursing
4. In several countries, research in health care settings has come to play animportant role in
the nursing profession with respect to:
A) providing opportunities to serve on important government policy-making boards.
B) credentialing and improving nurses’ status.
C) strengthening nurses’ bargaining power.
D) supporting better avenues for advanced degrees.
Ans: B
Feedback:
In the United States and in other countries, research plays an important role in nurses’
credentialing and status. In particular, research and efforts to promote evidence-based practice
are key elements of the Magnet recognition program.
Changes to nursing practice now occur regularly because of EBP efforts, and these efforts enhance the
status of the profession. The other answers are possible outcomes of increased research activity
among nurses, but none is as important asthe role of research in enhancing the visibility and credibility
of the profession.Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of CareCognitive Level:
Analyze
Difficulty: Easy
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 01
Page and Header: 3, Roles of Nurses in Research
