NURS 311 QUIZ 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of
importance to the nursing profession.
Evidence Based Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅use of the best evidence in making patient care
decisions
Consumers of nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses who read research papers to keep UTD
on findings that may affect their practice.
Producers of nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses who actively design and undertake
studies.
Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a worldview, a general perspective to explain the worlds complexities
Future directions for nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- EBP
- Translational research
- Replication
- Systematic reviews
- Local research
- Dissemination (spread) of findings
- Diversity issues and health disparities
- Patient-oriented research
- Interprofessional collaboration
4 Sources of evidence for nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Tradition and authority
2. Clinical experience & trial and error
3. assembled information
4. Disciplined research
, Sources of evidence for nursing practice (tradition and authority) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅some
traditional routines are ineffective yet still continue and some authorities give wrong info but are not
challenged
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (clinical exp & trial and error) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- can be
disorganized, good source of knowledge but too narrow.
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (assembled information) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ex med
error reports- useful but provides no guide on how to make changes.
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (Disciplined research) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- best method
for acquiring reliable knowledge. Peer reviewed lit. EBP requires nurses to base their clinical practice on
rigorous research rather than on tradition, authority or personal experience. Nursing will always be a
rich blend of art and science (when EBP not available).
Positivist Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Black/white-empirical evidence. Phenomena don't happen
by chance but bc of antecedent cause. Aimed at understanding underlying causes.
- Quantitative
- Deductive process
- Generalization
Constructivist/naturalistic paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data isn't numbers its dialogue with
others. Reality is not a fixed entity, many constructions are possible, no absolute truth
o Qualitative
o Inductive processes
o Seeks in-depth understanding
1850s - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Florence Nightingale pioneered research
1950s - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First journal on research
Nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of
importance to the nursing profession.
Evidence Based Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅use of the best evidence in making patient care
decisions
Consumers of nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses who read research papers to keep UTD
on findings that may affect their practice.
Producers of nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses who actively design and undertake
studies.
Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a worldview, a general perspective to explain the worlds complexities
Future directions for nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- EBP
- Translational research
- Replication
- Systematic reviews
- Local research
- Dissemination (spread) of findings
- Diversity issues and health disparities
- Patient-oriented research
- Interprofessional collaboration
4 Sources of evidence for nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Tradition and authority
2. Clinical experience & trial and error
3. assembled information
4. Disciplined research
, Sources of evidence for nursing practice (tradition and authority) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅some
traditional routines are ineffective yet still continue and some authorities give wrong info but are not
challenged
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (clinical exp & trial and error) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- can be
disorganized, good source of knowledge but too narrow.
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (assembled information) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ex med
error reports- useful but provides no guide on how to make changes.
Sources of evidence for nursing practice (Disciplined research) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- best method
for acquiring reliable knowledge. Peer reviewed lit. EBP requires nurses to base their clinical practice on
rigorous research rather than on tradition, authority or personal experience. Nursing will always be a
rich blend of art and science (when EBP not available).
Positivist Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Black/white-empirical evidence. Phenomena don't happen
by chance but bc of antecedent cause. Aimed at understanding underlying causes.
- Quantitative
- Deductive process
- Generalization
Constructivist/naturalistic paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data isn't numbers its dialogue with
others. Reality is not a fixed entity, many constructions are possible, no absolute truth
o Qualitative
o Inductive processes
o Seeks in-depth understanding
1850s - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Florence Nightingale pioneered research
1950s - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First journal on research
