ESSENTIALS OF NURSING RESEARCH
APPRAISING EVIDENCE FOR NURSING ACTUAL
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Cause- probing research. Answer: Research design to illuminate
the underlying causes of phenomena
◉ Clinical nursing research. Answer: Research design to guide
nursing practice
◉ Clinical significance. Answer: The practical importance of
research results in terms of whether they have genuine, palpable
affects on the daily lives of patients or on the healthcare decisions
made on their behalf
◉ Constructivist paradigm. Answer: An alternative paradigm to the
positivist paradigm that holds that there are multiple
interpretations of reality and that the goal of research is to
understand how individuals construct reality within their context;
associated with qualitative research; also called naturalistic
paradigm
, ◉ Empirical evidence. Answer: Evidence rooted in objective reality
and gathered using one's senses as the basis for generating
knowledge
◉ Evidence-based practice. Answer: A practice that involves making
clinical decisions based on an integration of the best available
evidence, most often from discipline research, with clinical expertise
and patient preferences
◉ Generalizability. Answer: The degree to which the research
methods justify the inference that the findings are true for a broader
group then study participants; in particular the inference that the
findings can be generalized from the sample to the population
◉ Journal club. Answer: A group that meets in clinical settings to
discuss and critique research articles appearing in journals
◉ Nursing research. Answer: Systematic inquiry designed to develop
knowledge about issues of importance to the nursing profession
◉ Paradigm. Answer: A way of looking at natural phenomena that
encompasses a set of philosophical assumptions and that guides
one's approach to inquiry
APPRAISING EVIDENCE FOR NURSING ACTUAL
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Cause- probing research. Answer: Research design to illuminate
the underlying causes of phenomena
◉ Clinical nursing research. Answer: Research design to guide
nursing practice
◉ Clinical significance. Answer: The practical importance of
research results in terms of whether they have genuine, palpable
affects on the daily lives of patients or on the healthcare decisions
made on their behalf
◉ Constructivist paradigm. Answer: An alternative paradigm to the
positivist paradigm that holds that there are multiple
interpretations of reality and that the goal of research is to
understand how individuals construct reality within their context;
associated with qualitative research; also called naturalistic
paradigm
, ◉ Empirical evidence. Answer: Evidence rooted in objective reality
and gathered using one's senses as the basis for generating
knowledge
◉ Evidence-based practice. Answer: A practice that involves making
clinical decisions based on an integration of the best available
evidence, most often from discipline research, with clinical expertise
and patient preferences
◉ Generalizability. Answer: The degree to which the research
methods justify the inference that the findings are true for a broader
group then study participants; in particular the inference that the
findings can be generalized from the sample to the population
◉ Journal club. Answer: A group that meets in clinical settings to
discuss and critique research articles appearing in journals
◉ Nursing research. Answer: Systematic inquiry designed to develop
knowledge about issues of importance to the nursing profession
◉ Paradigm. Answer: A way of looking at natural phenomena that
encompasses a set of philosophical assumptions and that guides
one's approach to inquiry
