Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice

When you ask an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day, the nurse says, "I guess we have just always done it that way." This answer is an example of what type of knowledge?

Which nursing actions reflect the use of philosophy as a knowledge base when delivering evidence-based care to patients?

A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing for patients in their health care facility. Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?

A nurse is using general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statements reflect key points of this theory?

A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognize the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of these four, which is most important?

A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. What is the term for this type of theory affecting change in clinical nursing practice?

When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:

Which type of quantitative research is often conducted to examine the effects of nursing interventions on patient outcomes?

Which method of qualitative research was developed by the discipline of anthropology?

A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICO format. What does the letter P represent?

A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilized stroke clients more frequently in order to prevent skin break down. The team has begun by formulating a PICO question. Which will be the "O" in the team's PICO question.

Of the following, which best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?

When delivering nursing care, which of the following theories assists nurses in prioritizing the care to be implemented?

The nurse researcher would like to gather data on the attitudes of young adults on spirituality and health care. What is the most effective form of research on this topic?

What is the best explanation for the way evidence based practice (EBP) has changed the way nursing care is delivered?

One of the primary focuses in nursing research is to do what?

Which of the following represents the basic framework of the research process?

Information is collected for analysis in both qualitative and quantitative research. What is the information called?

What is the central theme of Florence Nightingale's nursing theory?

How would a student nurse describe a conceptual framework?

What is the central theme of Hildegard Peplau's nursing theory?

Who of the following is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating the environment?

What is the central theme of Betty Numan's nursing theory?

Nurses in an ICU noticed that their clients required less intervention for pain when the ICU was quiet. They then asked a researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nursing body of knowledge?

Who is considered to be the first nursing researcher?

For which of the following research activities is a phenomenological research method most appropriate?

A male client 79 years of age, who is postoperative Day 3 following hip replacement has been approached by a nurse researcher and asked to participate in a research study. This study will test a new rehabilitation strategy. What aspect of the nursing research process addresses the client's understanding of the potential risks and benefits of the study?

Which of the following theory emphasizes the relationships between the whole and the parts, and describes how parts function and behave?

The nurse working in research correctly identifies which of the following to be mandatory for the ethical conduction of research in a hospital setting?

When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of the process?

A nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that the opening paragraph summarizing the article (and the finds of the research) is a good place to start. What part of the article is the nursing student reading?

A nursing researcher is examining the cause and effect relationship between the consumption of tap water containing minimal amounts of bleach, and the incidence of cancer in rats. The research is taking place in a laboratory setting. What type of quantitative research is being used based upon this description?

Following the identification of a researchable problem, what must the nurse do?