NSE 222 Weeks 1-3 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
What is nursing research? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the systematic, rigorous,
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logical investigation with the aim of answering questions about nursing
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phenomena
What is phenomena? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-occurrences, circumstances, or
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facts that are perceptible by the senses.
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What is the significance of research to practice? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Expands the discipline's unique body of scientific knowledge
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- Forms the foundation for evidence-informed nursing practice
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- Allows practice to change with work environments and the most common
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health issues |
- Maintains the profession's societal relevance
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What is evidence-informed decision making? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Evidence-
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informed decision making is a continuous, interactive process involving the
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explicit, conscientious, and judicious consideration of the best available evidence
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to provide care (CNA, 2010).
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What is inductive reasoning vs. deductive reasoning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Inductive reasoning: Starts with details of experience and move to a general
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picture.
,- Deductive reasoning: Starts with a general picture and move to a specific
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direction; uses two or more concepts.
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Do qualitative researchers typically use inductive or deductive reasoning? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Inductive!
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What are the levels of evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Qualitative or mixed-
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methods systematic review
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2. Qualitative or mixed-methods synthesis
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3. Single qualitative study
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4. Systematic review of expert opinion
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5. Expert opinion
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What are the steps in knowledge development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Knowledge gap > knowledge generation > Knowledge distribution > Knowledge
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adoption > Knowledge review and revision
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What does theoretical knowing involve? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Theoretical
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knowing is concerned with developing or testing theories or ideas that nurse
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researchers have about how the world operates.
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- Theoretical knowing is informed by empirical knowing, which involves
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observations of reality. | |
What does qualitative research involve? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Used to
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describe, explore and give meaning to life experiences
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- Systematic, interactive and subjective research method
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, - Data are words or text, rather than numerical, in order to describe the
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experiences that are being studied. | | | |
- Occurs in naturalistic settings, one that people live in every day.
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- Researchers believe that reality is socially constructed and context dependent
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(the environment is not separated from the experience)
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- Bring researchers very close to participants lived experience
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- Generates in-depth insight through speaking with or observing people to create
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meaning
- Seek to understanding what things mean to people as this makes actions and
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intentions clear. Things that are important are often unspoken or inexpressible
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What is a paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A "set of beliefs and practices,
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shared by communities of researchers," that guide the knowledge development
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process.
What is the post-positivist paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Phenomenon or
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problem exists but can only be imperfectly
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What is the critical social paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Phenomenon or
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problem is shaped by power structures
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Aims
- Critique and questions the status quo
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- Empower and bring about change
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- Emancipation
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- Reconstruction of what we know to be true
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Correct Answers
What is nursing research? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the systematic, rigorous,
| | | | | | | | |
logical investigation with the aim of answering questions about nursing
| | | | | | | | | |
phenomena
What is phenomena? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-occurrences, circumstances, or
| | | | | | | |
facts that are perceptible by the senses.
| | | | | |
What is the significance of research to practice? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Expands the discipline's unique body of scientific knowledge
| | | | | | |
- Forms the foundation for evidence-informed nursing practice
| | | | | | |
- Allows practice to change with work environments and the most common
| | | | | | | | | | | |
health issues |
- Maintains the profession's societal relevance
| | | | |
What is evidence-informed decision making? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Evidence-
| | | | | | |
informed decision making is a continuous, interactive process involving the
| | | | | | | | | |
explicit, conscientious, and judicious consideration of the best available evidence
| | | | | | | | | |
to provide care (CNA, 2010).
| | | |
What is inductive reasoning vs. deductive reasoning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Inductive reasoning: Starts with details of experience and move to a general
| | | | | | | | | | | |
picture.
,- Deductive reasoning: Starts with a general picture and move to a specific
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
direction; uses two or more concepts.
| | | | |
Do qualitative researchers typically use inductive or deductive reasoning? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Inductive!
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What are the levels of evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Qualitative or mixed-
| | | | | | | | | | |
methods systematic review
| |
2. Qualitative or mixed-methods synthesis
| | | |
3. Single qualitative study
| | |
4. Systematic review of expert opinion
| | | | |
5. Expert opinion
| |
What are the steps in knowledge development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Knowledge gap > knowledge generation > Knowledge distribution > Knowledge
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adoption > Knowledge review and revision
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What does theoretical knowing involve? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Theoretical
| | | | | | | | |
knowing is concerned with developing or testing theories or ideas that nurse
| | | | | | | | | | | |
researchers have about how the world operates.
| | | | | | |
- Theoretical knowing is informed by empirical knowing, which involves
| | | | | | | | | |
observations of reality. | |
What does qualitative research involve? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Used to
| | | | | | | | | |
describe, explore and give meaning to life experiences
| | | | | | |
- Systematic, interactive and subjective research method
| | | | | |
, - Data are words or text, rather than numerical, in order to describe the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
experiences that are being studied. | | | |
- Occurs in naturalistic settings, one that people live in every day.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
- Researchers believe that reality is socially constructed and context dependent
| | | | | | | | | | |
(the environment is not separated from the experience)
| | | | | | |
- Bring researchers very close to participants lived experience
| | | | | | | |
- Generates in-depth insight through speaking with or observing people to create
| | | | | | | | | | | |
meaning
- Seek to understanding what things mean to people as this makes actions and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
intentions clear. Things that are important are often unspoken or inexpressible
| | | | | | | | | |
What is a paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A "set of beliefs and practices,
| | | | | | | | | | | |
shared by communities of researchers," that guide the knowledge development
| | | | | | | | | |
process.
What is the post-positivist paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Phenomenon or
| | | | | | | | |
problem exists but can only be imperfectly
| | | | | |
What is the critical social paradigm? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Phenomenon or
| | | | | | | | | |
problem is shaped by power structures
| | | | |
Aims
- Critique and questions the status quo
| | | | | |
- Empower and bring about change
| | | | |
- Emancipation
| |
- Reconstruction of what we know to be true
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