NURS 641 TEST PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following statements is not true?
A. in grounded theory research, data collection and data analysis are interspersed, not
sequential
B. There are no standards for methods of collecting data and analyzing to establish
rigor.
C. Ethnographic research produces a rich portrayal of the norms, values, ad social rules
of a health or healthcare subculture.
D. Qualitative research produces rich and nuanced portrayals of the phenomenon being
studies - ✔✔There are no standards for methods of collecting data and analyzing to
establish rigor.
✔✔a group of researchers are conducting a study with the aim of producing a middle-
range theory about date rape in college students. What research methodology will
accomplish this aim?
a. phenomenology
b. grounded theory
c. qualitative description
d. ethnography - ✔✔Grounded theory
✔✔In a qualitative research, data saturation occurs when:
1. The researcher's notes fall in a puddle
2. no new information is forthcoming and all major issues are understood
3. participant contradict their own statements
4. The target sample size has been reached - ✔✔no new information is forthcoming and
all major issues are understood
✔✔A nurse researcher aims to produce a rich portrayal of the norms, values, language,
roles, and social rules of health amongst Central American immigrants to the US. What
research methodology would work best?
1. Phenomonology
2. Grounded theory
3. Ethnography
4. Case study - ✔✔Ethnography
✔✔In the study, An Institutional Ethnography of Nurses' Support of Breastfeeding on the
Night Shift, the researchers collected data via focus groups, individual/group interviews
and observing the mother/baby unit. This approach to data collection is called:
a. pyramid data collection
b. axial coding
c. cross-checking your data.
d. triangulation - ✔✔triagulation
, ✔✔The PICOTS format is most useful for focusing what kind of clinical question for an
evidence-based practice project?
a. A quality study
b. A question about intervention effectiveness
c. A question about the meaning of a process of care
d. A study about risk factors for a clinical condition - ✔✔a question about intervention
effectiveness
✔✔What is your review of this question that served as a project guide?
Would recommending the new shingles vaccine to all patients ages 50 and older who
are seen in our medical clinics reduce the incidence of shingles over their lifetime and
by what percentage?
a. They are missing essential elements required for a focused project
b. They are too vague
c. They include all essential elements for a focused project
d. They are too specific - ✔✔They include all essential elements for a focused project
✔✔What type of research evidence should an evidence-based protocol work group look
for first?
a. a randomized clinical trial
b. a qualitative study
c. an evidence-based clinical practice guideline
d. a study with a largest sample that tests an intervention - ✔✔an evidence-based
clinical practice guideline
✔✔questions not easily answered by research evidence
a. new technology as when only manufacturer's data is available
b. application of an existing intervention to a new population not yet studied
c. the care of an individual patient who does not want a standardized intervention
d. the moral or ethical course of action - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a trigger for an evidence-based practice project?
a. an adverse patient event
b. quality data indicating less than ideal patient outcomes
c. patient dissatisfaction with care
d. a family disagreement about continuing life support of an elderly parent - ✔✔a family
disagreement about continuing life support of an elderly parent
✔✔The strength association between two variables is indicated by which statistical
method?
a. correlation coefficient
b. cronbach's alpha
c. dichotomous measurement
d. histogram - ✔✔correlation coefficient
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following statements is not true?
A. in grounded theory research, data collection and data analysis are interspersed, not
sequential
B. There are no standards for methods of collecting data and analyzing to establish
rigor.
C. Ethnographic research produces a rich portrayal of the norms, values, ad social rules
of a health or healthcare subculture.
D. Qualitative research produces rich and nuanced portrayals of the phenomenon being
studies - ✔✔There are no standards for methods of collecting data and analyzing to
establish rigor.
✔✔a group of researchers are conducting a study with the aim of producing a middle-
range theory about date rape in college students. What research methodology will
accomplish this aim?
a. phenomenology
b. grounded theory
c. qualitative description
d. ethnography - ✔✔Grounded theory
✔✔In a qualitative research, data saturation occurs when:
1. The researcher's notes fall in a puddle
2. no new information is forthcoming and all major issues are understood
3. participant contradict their own statements
4. The target sample size has been reached - ✔✔no new information is forthcoming and
all major issues are understood
✔✔A nurse researcher aims to produce a rich portrayal of the norms, values, language,
roles, and social rules of health amongst Central American immigrants to the US. What
research methodology would work best?
1. Phenomonology
2. Grounded theory
3. Ethnography
4. Case study - ✔✔Ethnography
✔✔In the study, An Institutional Ethnography of Nurses' Support of Breastfeeding on the
Night Shift, the researchers collected data via focus groups, individual/group interviews
and observing the mother/baby unit. This approach to data collection is called:
a. pyramid data collection
b. axial coding
c. cross-checking your data.
d. triangulation - ✔✔triagulation
, ✔✔The PICOTS format is most useful for focusing what kind of clinical question for an
evidence-based practice project?
a. A quality study
b. A question about intervention effectiveness
c. A question about the meaning of a process of care
d. A study about risk factors for a clinical condition - ✔✔a question about intervention
effectiveness
✔✔What is your review of this question that served as a project guide?
Would recommending the new shingles vaccine to all patients ages 50 and older who
are seen in our medical clinics reduce the incidence of shingles over their lifetime and
by what percentage?
a. They are missing essential elements required for a focused project
b. They are too vague
c. They include all essential elements for a focused project
d. They are too specific - ✔✔They include all essential elements for a focused project
✔✔What type of research evidence should an evidence-based protocol work group look
for first?
a. a randomized clinical trial
b. a qualitative study
c. an evidence-based clinical practice guideline
d. a study with a largest sample that tests an intervention - ✔✔an evidence-based
clinical practice guideline
✔✔questions not easily answered by research evidence
a. new technology as when only manufacturer's data is available
b. application of an existing intervention to a new population not yet studied
c. the care of an individual patient who does not want a standardized intervention
d. the moral or ethical course of action - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a trigger for an evidence-based practice project?
a. an adverse patient event
b. quality data indicating less than ideal patient outcomes
c. patient dissatisfaction with care
d. a family disagreement about continuing life support of an elderly parent - ✔✔a family
disagreement about continuing life support of an elderly parent
✔✔The strength association between two variables is indicated by which statistical
method?
a. correlation coefficient
b. cronbach's alpha
c. dichotomous measurement
d. histogram - ✔✔correlation coefficient
