Chapter 06: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Cherry and Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 8th Edition

Institutional review boards determine whether research studies involving human subjects will achieve what? a. Publication b. Increase the body of nursing knowledge c. Avoid causing harm to research subjects d. Funding ANS: C The institutional review board (also called the human subjects committee) examines research proposals to ensure that the ethical rights of those individuals participating in the research study are protected. This board makes sure that persons who participate in research are assured that their right to privacy, confidentiality, fair treatment, and freedom from harm is protected. DIF: Knowledge 2. A nurse is interested in understanding the meaning of the human experience of surviving polio. Subject recruitment targets persons who have been diagnosed with the disease. The researcher reflects on the data and identifies common themes to understand the “lived experience.” These characteristics are consistent with which qualitative research method? a. Grounded theory b. Ethnography c. Phenomenology d. Case study