- The research question, "What is the decision-making process among intensive care unit nurses who decide to assist terminally ill patients to die?" is:
Your answer:
Not appropriately worded as a research question.
Most likely to be addressed using a quantitative approach.
Most likely to be addressed using a qualitative approach.
Not researchable.
- The question, "Should voluntary tubal ligations be performed on women without children?" is:
Your answer:
Acceptable as a research question.
Insufficiently significant.
Unethical.
Not researchable.
- The research question, "Does maternal stress during the first trimester of a pregnancy affect the infant's birthweight?" is:
Your answer:
Not ethical for research inquiry.
Not researchable.
Not of clinical significance.
Acceptable as stated.
- A research hypothesis:
Your answer:
Is a set of logically interrelated propositions.
Predicts the absence of a relationship between two or more variables.
Is usually more general in scope than the problem statement.
Predicts the nature of the relationship between two or more variables.
- A research hypothesis indicates the expected relationship between:
Your answer:
The functional and causal nature of the variables.
The statement of purpose and the research questions.
The independent variable and the dependent variable.
Statistical testing and the null hypothesis.
- "Several factors have been found to be associated with pain intensity during labor and delivery, but previous studies have produced conflicting results." This sentence could best be described as:
Your answer:
A statement of purpose
A hypothesis
A research question
A problem statement
- "The goal of this study was to examine the influence of uncertainty on emotional distress and recovery following myocardial infarction (MI)." This sentence could best be described as:
Your answer:
A statement of purpose.
A problem statement.
A research question.
A hypothesis.
- "Hypertensive patients who undergo a biofeedback self-management training program will have lower blood pressure readings 3 months later than patients who do not." This sentence could best be described as:
Your answer:
A hypothesis.
A research question.
A statement of purpose.
A problem statement.
- Which of the following would be best described as a statement of purpose for a quantitative study?
Your answer:
The goal of this study is to explore the process of transitioning from non-parenthood to parenthood.
The goal of this study is to compare the prevalence of domestic violence among clinically depressed women living in urban versus rural areas.
The purpose is to develop a protocol for addressing the needs of alcoholic pregnant women.
The purpose of this research is to describe the lived experinece of confused older people living in a nursing home.
- Hypotheses to be tested in a study are frequently found in:
Your answer:
Both qualitative and quantitative studies.
Qualitative studies.
Neither qualitative nor quantitative studies.
Quantitative studies.
- The type of information in which the researcher is LEAST interested when doing a literature review is:
Your answer:
How the varibles of interest have been operationally defined in prior studies.
Research results.
The research approaches that have been used to study similar problems.
Narrations of a particular author's impression of a given situation.
- A primary source for a literature review may be defined as:
Your answer:
A thesaurus that directs the reader to subject headings germane to the topic.
A summarization of relevant research that has been conducted on the topic of interest.
A description of an investigation written by the researcher who conducted the study.
Any retrieval mechanism that helps to locate articles on the area of interest.
- What is a major purpose of doing a literature review?
Your answer:
Development of policy guidelines.
Development of research skills.
Acquisition of knowledge on a topic.
Development of computer skills.
- Which of the following statements is true?
Your answer:
Elecronic bibliographic databases can be accessed only by skilled librarians or information specialists.
Electronic searches must be performed in libraries or formal institutions.
Electronic bibliographic databases are increasingly making manual literature retrieval methods obsolete.
Electronic bibliographic databases of interest to nurses can only be accessed via computer through an online search.
- In the following bibliographic reference, what does the "12" refer to? Applied Nursing Research, 12 (4): 230-237, 1999 Dec. (15 ref).
Your answer:
The page on which the report begins.
The number of the issue of the journal.
The month in which the study was published.
The number of the volume of the journal.
- A search of an electronic data base yields a better, more manageable list of references if you:
Your answer:
Know the name of the key researcher in the field.
Start with a textword search rather than a subject search.
Successively narrow (restrict) the scope of the search in various ways.
Know the exact key word used in the index of the database.
- To a nurse seeking knowledge on a topic, a literature review article in a journal would be considered:
Your answer:
A primary source.
A secondary source.
A mapping device.
An abstract.
- Which of the following should NOT be included in a written review of the literature?
Your answer:
Extensive quotes from the original studies being reviewed.
A full list of references.
Comments about gaps in the literature.
The reviewer's critical appraisal about the quality of existing research.
- The power of theories lies in their ability to:
Your answer:
Capture the complexity of human nature by the richness of the operational definitions associated with the variables.
Prove conclusively that relationships exist among the phenomena studied.
Specify the nature of the relationships that exist among phenomena.
Minimize the number of words required to explain phenomena and, thereby, eliminate semantic problems.
- Which of the following is NOT a central concept in conceptual models of nursing?
Your answer:
Health
Environment
Social support
Person
- The nurse-theorist Orem developed the:
Your answer:
Uncertainty in Illness Model
Health Promotion Model
Adaptation Model
Model of Self-Care
- The nurse-theorist Roy developed the:
Your answer:
Adaptation Model
Science of Unitary Human Beings
Model of Man-Living-Health
Health Promotion Model
- Which of the following is a conceptual model of nursing that constitutes a formal explanation of what nursing is?
Your answer:
Becker's Health Belief Model
Pender's Health Promotion Model
Lazarus and Folkman's Theory of Stress and coping
Roy's Adaptation Model
- Is it ever acceptable to do research without a theoretical framework?
Your answer:
Yes, if there is no theoretical framework that fits the research.
Yes, but the quality of the research is diminished, regardless of the type of research.
No, all research should have a theoretical framework.
Yes, but only if it is a qualitative study.
- Every nursing study should have a:
Your answer:
Framework.
Conceptual Model.
Theory.
Conceptual map.
- 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:
Yes, on my word of honor.
No.