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Nursing Research

Question 1 of 40

1

A reliability coefficient of 0.6 :

Select one of the following:

  • Desirable

  • Undesirable

  • Acceptable

  • Workable if needed

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

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Validity based on whether the instrument looks as though it is measuring the appropriate construct is known as:

Select one of the following:

  • Face validity

  • Content

  • Criterion-related validity

  • Construct validity

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

1

The instrument’s ability to correctly identify non-cases, that is, to screen out those without the condition, is known as the sensitivity of the instrument.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

1

Which of the following types of self reporting involve the use of a discussion moderator?

Select one of the following:

  • Unstructured interviews

  • Semi-structured interviews

  • Focus group interviews

  • Life Histories

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

1

Which of the following best describes a scenario in which sample members are hand-picked by a researcher to achieve certain goals of the study

Select one of the following:

  • Convenience (accidental) sampling

  • Snowball (network) sampling

  • Quota sampling

  • Purposive sampling

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

1

Which of the qualitative traditions can involve a sample size as large as 50 participants?

Select one of the following:

  • Theoretical sampling

  • Ethnography

  • Phenomenology

  • Grounded theory

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

1

The number of study participants in the final sample is known as the study group.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

1

What offers an explanation not only of the relationship between variables but also of the nature of the relationship?

Select one of the following:

  • Hypothesis

  • Theory

  • Statistics

  • Predictions

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

1

You are learning about central concepts in conceptual models of nursing. Of the
following, which would you know is a central concept in a conceptual model of
nursing?

Select one of the following:

  • Treatment modality

  • Environment

  • Medical support

  • Social support

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

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You are a researcher doing theory-testing research. What is one of your goals?

Select one of the following:

  • To rule out competing explanations for the observed relationships

  • To explain unexpected findings

  • To rule out unexpected findings

  • To explain incidental findings

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

1

The nurse researcher has designed a study where the researcher will simultaneously manipulate two independent variables. What is the design of the study?

Select one of the following:

  • Pretest post-test design

  • Factorial design

  • Time series design

  • Crossover design

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

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A nurse researcher is conducting a quasi-experimental study. What is this study especially susceptible to?

Select one of the following:

  • Threats to generalizability

  • Threats to internal validity

  • Threats to randomization

  • Threats to external validity

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

1

What is a detailed description of powerful statistical control mechanisms?

Select one of the following:

  • Variant analysis

  • Statistical variant validity

  • Analysis of covariance

  • Statistical conclusion validity

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

1

A nursing student is participating in a research study that uses observational methods to explore universal behavioural structures. What tradition is this study based on?

Select one of the following:

  • Ethnography

  • Hermeneutics

  • Ethnomethodology

  • Ethology

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

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A nurse is reading a research report. The study that is the subject of the report focuses on the environment's influence on human behaviour. What type of study is it?

Select one of the following:

  • Ethnomethodologic

  • Phenomenonologic

  • Grounded theory

  • Ecological psychology

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

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A new trend in nursing is to design research studies with an ideologic perspective. What is a type of research with an ideologic perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Grounded theory

  • Feminist research

  • Emergent design

  • Symbolic interaction

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

1

When a study is based on the realities and viewpoints of those under study, what study design is it?

Select one of the following:

  • Hermeneutics

  • Ecological psychology

  • Ethnomethodology

  • Emergent design

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

1

When planning a qualitative research study, advance planning is important in some areas. What is one area where advance planning is important?

Select one of the following:

  • Identification of the key “gatekeepers”

  • Identification of the statistical tests to be used

  • The use of hermeneutics in the study

  • The use of ethology in the study

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

1

When a clinical trial is necessary, what phase of the trial requires an experimental design?

Select one of the following:

  • Phase I

  • Phase II

  • Phase III

  • Phase IV

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

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A nurse researcher knows that the integration of qualitative and quantitative data can be used to address research goals that the different theories alone cannot address. What is one of these applications?

Select one of the following:

  • Enhanced validity

  • Complementarity

  • Creating new frontiers

  • Instrumentation

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

1

You are a researcher involved in an intensive investigation. You will be collecting data
over an extended period of time. What type of study are you involved in?

Select one of the following:

  • Case study

  • Outcome analysis

  • Process analysis

  • Clinical trial

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

1

What does probability sampling allow the researcher to do that non-probablity sampling
does not?

Select one of the following:

  • Estimate the probability of a positive hypothesis

  • Estimate the probability of representativeness

  • Estimate the accuracy of randomness

  • Estimate the magnitude of sampling error

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

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Sometimes vignettes, or brief descriptions of situations, are given to subjects and they
are asked to respond. What can vignettes easily be incorporated into?

Select one of the following:

  • Focus group interviews

  • Questionnaires

  • Observational rating scales

  • Q sorts

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

1

The nursing instructor is discussing Q sorts with her students. What statement is true
about Q sorts?

Select one of the following:

  • Q sorts are typically administered through the mail.

  • Q sorts are rarely done with fewer than 50 statements to be sorted.

  • The number of piles in a Q sort is an even number.

  • The dimension along which statements are always sorted in a Q sort is
    agree/disagree.

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

1

You are designing a research study that will collect data on vital capacity. What type of
data will you be gathering?

Select one of the following:

  • In vivo

  • Observational

  • Self-Reported

  • In vitro

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

1

A researcher is conducting a study of a new mother's perceptions of her infant's personality from birth to 4 months of age. To do this, the researcher is using a series of scales with bipolar adjectives along which respondents rate their reactions toward phenomena. What is this technique?

Select one of the following:

  • Visual analog scale

  • Semantic differential

  • Participant observation

  • Time sampling

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

1

You have designed a study with multiple psychological variables. Which of the following traits would be a good candidate for a test–retest reliability assessment?

Select one of the following:

  • Anxiety level

  • Fear of heights

  • Mood

  • Fatigue

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

1

As a quantitative researcher, which of the following qualities would be an aspect of reliability you are interested in?

Select one of the following:

  • Trustworthiness

  • Credibility

  • Equivalence

  • Truthfulness

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

1

You are graphing test scores and find that the bulk of the scores occurred at the upper end of the distribution. You would know the distribution could be described as which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Normal

  • Bimodal

  • Positively skewed

  • Negatively skewed

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

1

You are critiquing a research study of four groups. You would expect the researcher to use a statistical procedure that determines whether a significant difference exists between four group means on a dependent variable measured on an interval scale. What is this statistical procedure?

Select one of the following:

  • t-test

  • ANOVA

  • MANOVA

  • Chi-squared test

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

1

You are at the stage in your study where you are going to use test statistics. The steps involved in using test statistics include: (1) Comparing the test statistic to a tabled value; (2) determining the degrees of freedom; (3) determining the appropriate statistic to be used; (4) computing a test statistic; and (5) selecting a level of significance. In what order do you perform these steps?

Select one of the following:

  • 5, 3, 1, 2, 4

  • 4, 2, 1, 5, 4

  • 2, 4, 1, 3, 5

  • 3, 5, 4, 2, 1

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

1

When is an analysis of variance used in a research study?

Select one of the following:

  • When the researcher wants to test the mean group differences of three or more
    groups.

  • When the researcher wants to test extraneous variables

  • When the researcher wants to test the outcome of post hoc tests

  • When the researcher wants to test a predictive variable

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

1

A research study is attempting to predict success in nursing school based on 10 characteristics (e.g., age, marital status, or number of children). You would expect them to use which analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Multiple regression

  • ANCOVA

  • Discriminant function analysis

  • Factor analysis

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

1

The analysis style that best characterizes ethnographic studies would be described as:

Select one of the following:

  • Qualitative content analysis

  • Template analysis style

  • Editing analysis style

  • Immersion/crystallization style

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

1

As a researcher you are using Diekelmann's seven-stage process of hermeneutic analysis. When applying Diekelmann's process to your study you must identify what?

Select one of the following:

  • An appropriate metaphor

  • A constitutive pattern

  • A hermeneutic circle

  • An exemplar

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

1

The phenomenologists all had slightly different beliefs and practices about the theories they espoused. Which phenomenologist specifically considered member checking inappropriate?

Select one of the following:

  • Colaizzi

  • Giorgi

  • Glaser

  • Strauss

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

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Qualitative researchers make sense of their data in different ways. Which researcher encourages gleaning thematic descriptions from artistic sources?

Select one of the following:

  • Leininger

  • Van Kaam

  • Spradley

  • Van Manen

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

1

You are writing a critique of an integrative review, and you know that an issue that is important to evaluate is which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Is the topic of the review important to the medical profession?

  • Did the reviewer do a good job pulling together and summarizing the evidence?

  • Was the data analysis done the way you would have done it?

  • Was the sample size small enough to provide adequate insight into the subject?

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

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The researchers are using an editing style of qualitative analysis. When organizing their data, these researchers will what?

Select one of the following:

  • Develop codes

  • Develop anecdotal notes

  • Develop data

  • Develop processes

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

1

You are working with your data and are now further developing your theory in such a way that you are exploring its applicability to other settings or groups. You are in the process of what?

Select one of the following:

  • Synthesizing

  • Re-contextualizing

  • Comprehending

  • Theorizing

Explanation

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