NUR 302 – Chapter 7 Study Guide with Practice Questions and Correct
answers for Evidence-Based Practice and Research in Nursing
Which of the following would be a primary source for a research literature review?
A) A meta-analysis appearing in the Cochrane Reviews
B) A metasynthesis published in the journal Qualitative Health Research
C) An experimental study published in the journal Research in Nursing & Health
D) A systematic review published in the journal Nursing Research - correct answer C
Which of the following is an important characteristic of a high-quality literature review?
A) Restricted to articles written in nursing journals
B) Restricted to recent studies
C) Full of opinions
D) Reproducible, with justifiable decision rules - correct answer D
In conducting a subject search in an electronic database, you would most likely initiate the
search by typing in which of the following?
A) An author's name
B) Restrictions to the search
C) A topic or keyword
D) An ancestor or descendant - correct answer C
In an electronic literature search, the searcher does not necessarily have to know the
database's subject headings for retrieving information on a topic because of the capability
known as which of the following?
A) Searching
B) Mapping
C) Restricting focus
D) Copying - correct answer B
The electronic database that focuses on the nursing and allied health literature is:
A) CINAHL
, B) EMBASE
C) Web of Knowledge
D) MEDLINE - correct answer A
When doing a computerized search for quantitative studies on a topic, which of the following
statements is most accurate?
A) The best place to begin is to use a search engine such as Yahoo or Google
B) The primary keyword to use in the search typically would be the population
C) The keywords to start the search typically would be the independent and dependent
variables
D) The specific subject headings used in each bibliographic database would have to be learned -
correct answer C
Which of the following statements is true?
A) The CINAHL database includes only journals
B) The CINAHL database includes about 15 million records
C) The CINAHL database uses the controlled vocabulary called MeSH to index entries
D) Subject headings in CINAHL include substantive and methodologic topics - correct answer D
Which of the following statements is true?
A) The MEDLINE database can only be accessed through subscriptions with a commercial
vendor
B) PubMed provides access to MEDLINE free of charge
C) PubMed does not allow users to find "related citations" for a previously identified record in
MEDLINE
D) A search in MEDLINE and CINAHL for a given keyword would yield identical results - correct
answer B
In the following CINAHL citation, to what does the "6" refer?
Nursing Research 2012 Nov/Dec; 61(6): 405-411.
A) Journal volume
B) Journal issue in a given year
answers for Evidence-Based Practice and Research in Nursing
Which of the following would be a primary source for a research literature review?
A) A meta-analysis appearing in the Cochrane Reviews
B) A metasynthesis published in the journal Qualitative Health Research
C) An experimental study published in the journal Research in Nursing & Health
D) A systematic review published in the journal Nursing Research - correct answer C
Which of the following is an important characteristic of a high-quality literature review?
A) Restricted to articles written in nursing journals
B) Restricted to recent studies
C) Full of opinions
D) Reproducible, with justifiable decision rules - correct answer D
In conducting a subject search in an electronic database, you would most likely initiate the
search by typing in which of the following?
A) An author's name
B) Restrictions to the search
C) A topic or keyword
D) An ancestor or descendant - correct answer C
In an electronic literature search, the searcher does not necessarily have to know the
database's subject headings for retrieving information on a topic because of the capability
known as which of the following?
A) Searching
B) Mapping
C) Restricting focus
D) Copying - correct answer B
The electronic database that focuses on the nursing and allied health literature is:
A) CINAHL
, B) EMBASE
C) Web of Knowledge
D) MEDLINE - correct answer A
When doing a computerized search for quantitative studies on a topic, which of the following
statements is most accurate?
A) The best place to begin is to use a search engine such as Yahoo or Google
B) The primary keyword to use in the search typically would be the population
C) The keywords to start the search typically would be the independent and dependent
variables
D) The specific subject headings used in each bibliographic database would have to be learned -
correct answer C
Which of the following statements is true?
A) The CINAHL database includes only journals
B) The CINAHL database includes about 15 million records
C) The CINAHL database uses the controlled vocabulary called MeSH to index entries
D) Subject headings in CINAHL include substantive and methodologic topics - correct answer D
Which of the following statements is true?
A) The MEDLINE database can only be accessed through subscriptions with a commercial
vendor
B) PubMed provides access to MEDLINE free of charge
C) PubMed does not allow users to find "related citations" for a previously identified record in
MEDLINE
D) A search in MEDLINE and CINAHL for a given keyword would yield identical results - correct
answer B
In the following CINAHL citation, to what does the "6" refer?
Nursing Research 2012 Nov/Dec; 61(6): 405-411.
A) Journal volume
B) Journal issue in a given year
