- An especially important goal for the nursing profession is to:
Your answer:
Document the role that nursing serves in society.
Establish research priorities.
Conduct research to better understand the supply and demand for nurses.
Establish a scientific base of knowledge for the improvement of practice.
- Which of the following topics most closely conforms to the priorities that have been suggested for future nursing research?
Your answer:
Nursing staff morale and turnover.
Factors associated with patient compliance with treatment.
Number of doctorally prepared nurses in various clinical specialties.
Attitudes of nursing students toward smoking.
- Which of the following limits the power of the scientific approach to answer questions about human life?
Your answer:
The shortage of theories about human behavior.
The necessity of departing from traditional beliefs.
The inability to control potential biases.
The difficulty of measuring psychosocial characteristics of humans.
- A researcher wants to investigate the effect of patients' body position on blood pressure. The study would most likely be:
Your answer:
Quantitative.
Qualitative.
Inductive.
Innsufficient information to determine.
- Of the following, the best example of a continuous variable is:
Your answer:
Blood pressure.
Shift assignment.
Blood type.
Method of teaching.
- "Pulse rate" is:
Your answer:
A categorical variable.
Inherently an independent variable.
None of these answers.
Not a variable.
- What is(are) the dependent variable(s) in the research question, "Is the job performance of nurses affected by salary or perceived job autonomy?"?
Your answer:
Perceived job autonomy
Salary
Both salary and perceived job autonomy.
Job performance.
- What is the independent variable in the research question, "What is the effect of noise levels on postoperative pain or blood pressure fluctuations in ICU patients?"?
Your answer:
Postoperative pain
Blood pressure
ICU patients
Noise levels
- What is the independent variable in the hypothesis, "Baccalaureate degree-prepared nurses will practice more rehabilitative nursing measures on a client in an ICU than will associate degree-prepared nurses"?
Your answer:
Baccalaureate degree-prepared nurses
Type of educational background of nurse
Rehabilitative nursing measures
Associate degree-prepared nurses
- The overall plan developed by the researcher to obtain answers to the questions being studied is called the:
Your answer:
Problem statement
Research design
Proposal
Coding plan
- In a quantitative research report, a review of prior research on the problem under study is most likely to be found in the:
Your answer:
Method section
Introduction
Results section
Discussion section
- In which section would the following sentence most likely appear? "The study sample consisted of 35 mother-infant pairs from an inner-city neighborhood."
Your answer:
Method section
Results section
Discussion section
Introduction
- In which section would the following sentence most likely appear? "The results may have been influenced by the patients' realization that they were participating in a scientific study."
Your answer:
Method section
Results section
Discussion section
Introduction
- When a finding is statistically significant, it:
Your answer:
Has a high likelihood of being valid and replicable
Proves that the researcher's hypothesis is correct
Indicates the need for changes in nursing procedures.
Suggests that the finding is very important
- In which section of a research report would the following sentence most likely appear? "Patients who coughed were significantly more likely to have spontaneous dislodgement of small-bore nasogastric tubes than patients who did not."
Your answer:
Discussion section
Results section
Introduction
Method section
- In a research report, limitations of the study are normally discussed in the:
Your answer:
Introduction
Method section
Results section
Discussion section
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study violated which of the following ethical principles?
Your answer:
All of these answers
Freedom from harm
Right to self-determination
Right to fair treatment
- If a researcher unobtrusively studies interactions among patients in a psychiatric hospital, which ethical principle may be violated?
Your answer:
Freedom from harm
All of these answers
Right to self-determination
Confidentiality
- The safeguard mechanism by which even the researcher cannot link the participant with the information provided is called:
Your answer:
Confidentiality
Informed consent
Right to privacy
Anonymity
- Confidentiality of study participants can be increased by:
Your answer:
Avoiding introducing the participants to any of the research personnel
All of these answers
Avoiding the collection of any identifying information
Placing all identifying information on computer files rather than manual files
- Informed consent is not obtained when:
Your answer:
The researcher's study is determined to be exempt from IRB review
The researcher collects information covertly
The researcher pays the subjects a stipend
The risk/benefit ratio is low
- In a qualitative study that involves multiple contacts between the researcher and study participants, the researcher may negotiate a(n):
Your answer:
Risk/benefit ratio
Stipend
Informed consent
Process consent
- Researchers face ethical dilemmas when:
Your answer:
The rights of study participants are in conflict with methodological features that could enhance the study's rigor.
Their studies are not reviewed by an Institutional Review Board (IRB).
The study participants are vulnerable subjects.
They cannnot guarantee anonymity to study participants.
- When researchers evaluate the risk/benefit ratio of a study in terms of ethical issues, what risks and benefits should they be considering?
Your answer:
The risks of the study to participants, against its benefits to the nursing profession.
The risks of the study to partipants, against the benefits of the study to both participants and society.
The risks of the study to participants, against the benefits of the study to the researcher's career.
The risks and costs of the study to the institution sponsoring the study, against the benefits for the institution (e.g., cost savings).
- What does informed consent imply?
Your answer:
Study participants are able to understand the information given to them about the study.
Researchers consent to inform study participants about their rights and responsibilities.
All possible information about a study has been given to the study participants.
Study participants forfeit their right to withdraw from a study after signing the consent document.
- On your word of honor, do you declare that you have been honest in taking this quiz, that you have not discussed the questions or answers in it with anyone else, and that you have not in any other way violated the principles of test-taking integrity concerning this quiz?
Your answer:
No.
Yes, on my word of honor.