NUR 307 - EXAM 1 AND 3- REVIEW
QUESTIONS WITH SOLVED
SOLUTIONS 2026-2027 UPDATE.
What evolves from the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and
patients' needs and values? - Answer -evidence-based practice
What promotes quality, safe, and cost-effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare
providers, and the healthcare system? - Answer -EBP
What are some guidelines that apply to research evidence? - Answer -description
-explanation
-prediction
-control
What involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena and, sometimes,
the relationships among them? - Answer -description
What is the nurse able to do during description? - Answer 1. identification of the incidence
and spread of infection in healthcare agencies
2. identification of the cluster of symptoms for a particular disease
3. description of the responses of individuals to a variety of health conditions and aging
4. description of the health promotion and illness prevention strategies used by a variety of
populations
5. determination of the incidence of a disease locally, nationally, and internationally
What clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies possible reasons why certain
events occur? - Answer -explanation
What is included in explanation? - Answer 1. determination of assessment data that need to
be gathered to address a patient's health need
2. the link of assessment data to a diagnosis
3. the link of causative risk factors or causes to illness, morbidity, and mortality
4. determination of the relationships among health risks, health behaviors, and health status
5. determination of links among demographic characteristics, disease status, psychosocial
factors, and patients' responses to treatment
,What can estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation? - Answer -
prediction
What is included during prediction? - Answer 1. prediction of the risk for a disease or injury
in different populations
2. prediction of behaviors that promote health and prevent illness
3. prediction of the health care required based on a patient's needs and values
What is to manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome? - Answer -control
What is included during control? - Answer 1. testing interventions to improve the health
status of individuals, families, and communities
2. testing interventions to improve healthcare delivery
3. synthesis of research for development into EBP guidelines
4. testing the effectiveness of EBP guideline in clinical agencies
What happened in the late 60s to 70s? - Answer -nurses were involved in the development of
models, conceptual frameworks, and theories to guide nursing practice
What was the purpose in the late 60 to 70s about the development of nursing practice? -
Answer -to provide direction for future nursing research
What was the purpose of the National Institute of Research (NINR)? - Answer -to increase the
status of nursing research and obtain more funding
If fulfilling to promote health with NINR, what would that look like? - Answer -supports and
conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the
lifespan to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevent disease and disability,
manage and eliminate symptoms caused by illness, and improve palliative and end-of-life care
What was the purpose of American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)? - Answer -
emphasized EBP for nursing
What are the needs for the American Association of Colleges in 2006? - Answer -provide
future directions for the discipline
1. create research culture
2. provide high-quality educational programs to prepare a workforce of nurse scientists
3. develop a sound research infrastructure
,4. obtain sufficient funding for essential research
Who initiated a 5-year study on nursing functions and activities? - Answer -American Nurses
Association (ANA)
Who provided research experiences for doctoral students? - Answer -Institute for Research
and Service in Nursing Education
Who is responsible for to advance research activities, provide an exchange of ideas, and
recognize excellence in research? - Answer -Council of Nurse Researchers
Who is responislbe for the honor society for nursing that sponsors national and international
research conferences and chapters of this organization sponsors many local conferences to
communicate research findings? - Answer -Sigma Theta Tau International
Who houses numerous resources to promote EBP, such as systematic reviews of research and
evidence-based guidelines for practice? - Answer -Cochrane Collaboration and Library
Who is responsible that supports research activities focused on identifying appropriate
diagnoses for nursing and generating an effective diagnostic process? - Answer -North
American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Who published to facilitate the use of research to improve practice? - Answer -Conduct and
Utilization of Research in Nursing (CURN)
Who is responsible to support the conduct and dissemination of knowledge developed through
basic and clinical nursing research, training, and other programs in patient care research? -
Answer -National Center for Nursing Research
What is responsible for establishing to facilitate conduct of outcomes research and leading
agency supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduced its cost,
improve patient safety, decreased medical errors, and broaden access to essential services? -
Answer -Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research (AHCPR)
-AKA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Who is responsible for accrediting healthcare organizations? - Answer -the joint commission
What is the initiative to focus on developing the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitude (KSA)
statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and graduate education? - Answer
-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
, Who conducted a phenomenological qualitative study to identify the levels of experience in the
development of clinical knowledge and expertise (novice, advanced beginner, competent,
proficient, and expert)? - Answer -Patricia Benner
What are examples of quantitative research? - Answer -descriptive
-correlational
-quasi-experimental
-experimental
What research explores new areas of research and describes situations as they exist in the
world? - Answer -descriptive
What research examines relationships and is conducted to develop and refine explanatory
knowledge for nursing practice? - Answer -correlational
What determines the effectiveness of nursing interventions in predicting and controlling the
outcomes desired for patients and families? - Answer -quasi-experimental
What research methods included in the text are phenomenological, grounded theory,
ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive, and historical research? - Answer -qualitative
What are some examples of qualitative research? - Answer -phenomenological
-grounded theory
-ethnographic
-exploratory-descriptive qualitative
-historical (outcomes)
What is an inductive descriptive approach used to describe an experience as it is lived by an
individual, such as the lived experience of chronic pain? - Answer -phenomenological
What research is an inductive research technique used to formulate, test, and refine theory
about a particular phenomenon? - Answer -grounded
What research was developed by the discipline of anthropology for investigating cultures
through an in-depth study of the members of the culture? - Answer -ethnographic
QUESTIONS WITH SOLVED
SOLUTIONS 2026-2027 UPDATE.
What evolves from the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and
patients' needs and values? - Answer -evidence-based practice
What promotes quality, safe, and cost-effective outcomes for patients, families, healthcare
providers, and the healthcare system? - Answer -EBP
What are some guidelines that apply to research evidence? - Answer -description
-explanation
-prediction
-control
What involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena and, sometimes,
the relationships among them? - Answer -description
What is the nurse able to do during description? - Answer 1. identification of the incidence
and spread of infection in healthcare agencies
2. identification of the cluster of symptoms for a particular disease
3. description of the responses of individuals to a variety of health conditions and aging
4. description of the health promotion and illness prevention strategies used by a variety of
populations
5. determination of the incidence of a disease locally, nationally, and internationally
What clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies possible reasons why certain
events occur? - Answer -explanation
What is included in explanation? - Answer 1. determination of assessment data that need to
be gathered to address a patient's health need
2. the link of assessment data to a diagnosis
3. the link of causative risk factors or causes to illness, morbidity, and mortality
4. determination of the relationships among health risks, health behaviors, and health status
5. determination of links among demographic characteristics, disease status, psychosocial
factors, and patients' responses to treatment
,What can estimate the probability of a specific outcome in a given situation? - Answer -
prediction
What is included during prediction? - Answer 1. prediction of the risk for a disease or injury
in different populations
2. prediction of behaviors that promote health and prevent illness
3. prediction of the health care required based on a patient's needs and values
What is to manipulate the situation to produce the desired outcome? - Answer -control
What is included during control? - Answer 1. testing interventions to improve the health
status of individuals, families, and communities
2. testing interventions to improve healthcare delivery
3. synthesis of research for development into EBP guidelines
4. testing the effectiveness of EBP guideline in clinical agencies
What happened in the late 60s to 70s? - Answer -nurses were involved in the development of
models, conceptual frameworks, and theories to guide nursing practice
What was the purpose in the late 60 to 70s about the development of nursing practice? -
Answer -to provide direction for future nursing research
What was the purpose of the National Institute of Research (NINR)? - Answer -to increase the
status of nursing research and obtain more funding
If fulfilling to promote health with NINR, what would that look like? - Answer -supports and
conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the
lifespan to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevent disease and disability,
manage and eliminate symptoms caused by illness, and improve palliative and end-of-life care
What was the purpose of American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)? - Answer -
emphasized EBP for nursing
What are the needs for the American Association of Colleges in 2006? - Answer -provide
future directions for the discipline
1. create research culture
2. provide high-quality educational programs to prepare a workforce of nurse scientists
3. develop a sound research infrastructure
,4. obtain sufficient funding for essential research
Who initiated a 5-year study on nursing functions and activities? - Answer -American Nurses
Association (ANA)
Who provided research experiences for doctoral students? - Answer -Institute for Research
and Service in Nursing Education
Who is responsible for to advance research activities, provide an exchange of ideas, and
recognize excellence in research? - Answer -Council of Nurse Researchers
Who is responislbe for the honor society for nursing that sponsors national and international
research conferences and chapters of this organization sponsors many local conferences to
communicate research findings? - Answer -Sigma Theta Tau International
Who houses numerous resources to promote EBP, such as systematic reviews of research and
evidence-based guidelines for practice? - Answer -Cochrane Collaboration and Library
Who is responsible that supports research activities focused on identifying appropriate
diagnoses for nursing and generating an effective diagnostic process? - Answer -North
American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Who published to facilitate the use of research to improve practice? - Answer -Conduct and
Utilization of Research in Nursing (CURN)
Who is responsible to support the conduct and dissemination of knowledge developed through
basic and clinical nursing research, training, and other programs in patient care research? -
Answer -National Center for Nursing Research
What is responsible for establishing to facilitate conduct of outcomes research and leading
agency supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduced its cost,
improve patient safety, decreased medical errors, and broaden access to essential services? -
Answer -Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research (AHCPR)
-AKA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Who is responsible for accrediting healthcare organizations? - Answer -the joint commission
What is the initiative to focus on developing the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitude (KSA)
statements for each of the competencies for pre-licensure and graduate education? - Answer
-Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
, Who conducted a phenomenological qualitative study to identify the levels of experience in the
development of clinical knowledge and expertise (novice, advanced beginner, competent,
proficient, and expert)? - Answer -Patricia Benner
What are examples of quantitative research? - Answer -descriptive
-correlational
-quasi-experimental
-experimental
What research explores new areas of research and describes situations as they exist in the
world? - Answer -descriptive
What research examines relationships and is conducted to develop and refine explanatory
knowledge for nursing practice? - Answer -correlational
What determines the effectiveness of nursing interventions in predicting and controlling the
outcomes desired for patients and families? - Answer -quasi-experimental
What research methods included in the text are phenomenological, grounded theory,
ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive, and historical research? - Answer -qualitative
What are some examples of qualitative research? - Answer -phenomenological
-grounded theory
-ethnographic
-exploratory-descriptive qualitative
-historical (outcomes)
What is an inductive descriptive approach used to describe an experience as it is lived by an
individual, such as the lived experience of chronic pain? - Answer -phenomenological
What research is an inductive research technique used to formulate, test, and refine theory
about a particular phenomenon? - Answer -grounded
What research was developed by the discipline of anthropology for investigating cultures
through an in-depth study of the members of the culture? - Answer -ethnographic
