MidTerm Exam (elaborations) Fundamentals Of Nursing

Some nursing students have been given an assignment to develop a research question from a quantitative approach. Which of the following would be an example of a quantitative research question in the clinical area? 1) A) Does expression of client spirituality affect recovery time? B) What dressing selections work best for a wound dehiscence? C) How do siblings react to a new baby of a second marriage after divorce of their parents? D) What support do terminal cancer clients find least beneficial in hospice care? A group of nurses is researching how care providers of Stage I/II Alzheimer's clients use prior coping skills in dealing with their current situation. Which qualitative research tradition does this exemplify? 2) A) Ethnography B) Grounded theory C) Substantive dimension D) Phenomenology A nurse educator has asked the question, "Do students who form study groups fare better on the NCLEX® exam when compared to their peers who study independently?" An example of a dependent variable would be which of the following? 3) A) Students' college GPAs B) Time between graduation and sitting for the NCLEX® C) NCLEX® scores of both groups D) Number of students in a study groupA researcher is conducting a study involving only the single-parent families of a school system. The sample in this situation is which of the following? 4) A) Children B) Single-parent families C) The school system D) Parents A nurse researcher is using an instrument that provides similar results each time it's implemented. This is an example of which of the following? 5) A) Reliability B) Validity C) Consistency D) Variability A significant research study was conducted on surgical clients in Pennsylvania hospitals. Findings concluded that: 6) A) Hospital size did not affect client survival. B) Nurses with BSN or higher degrees were associated with lower mortality. C) Nurse-to-client ratios did not have a bearing on significant reduction in client mortality D) Years of nursing experience increased client survival