Polit & Beck's Nursing Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice 12th Edition Questions and Answers

Importance of research in nursing - ANSWER Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses' decisions and actions. Best served group by clinical nursing research - ANSWER Nurses' clients. Area where research plays an important role in nursing (US) - ANSWER Nurses' education. Role of a consumer of nursing research - ANSWER Read research reports for relevant findings. Concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s - ANSWER Nursing education. Topic conforming to future nursing research priorities - ANSWER Promotion of excellence in nursing science. Process of deductive reasoning - ANSWER Developing specific predictions from general principles. Ontological assumption of naturalistic paradigm - ANSWER Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans. Epistemological assumption of positivist paradigm - ANSWER The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied.