Chapters 1-5
Why should the registered nurse practicing bedside nursing be concerned about research for the delivery of quality nursing care?
What is to provide knowledge needed to make sound clinical decisions
To study the effects of a new antiviral drug on people with AIDS, a researcher conducts a study on a prison population. Which ethical issue is of immediate concern?
What is vulnerable persons cannot be chosen as participants for convenience?
The nurse researcher is participating in a quasi-experimental study. Which level is characteristic of the strength of the evidence provided regarding the results of such a study?
What is Level III?
Which question is helpful in determining the study’s credibility?
Do the participants recognize the experience as their own?
What strategies were used to analyze the data?
How were human subjects protected?
Are the findings applicable outside the study situation?
what is Do the participants recognize the experience as their own?
An investigator reporting a qualitative study indicates that each participant was given a pseudonym. What criterion is being met by this?
What is Confidentiality?
What is the purpose of including a summary of the theoretical and scientific background of a study in a research report?
What is to inform the reader about how the research question was developed
The nurse researcher is participating in a research project and notes that some of the other researchers who are utilizing participant observation methods believe that consent may not always be necessary. This is representative of which characteristic of qualitative research?
What is naturalistic setting?
Which type of study is concerned specifically with a time perspective?
What is developmental studies?
Which level of measurement is ranked variables or events with unequal intervals between numbers on the scale?
What is ordinal?
What does the quote “The high CES-D scores may indicate selection bias.” found in the study by Hudson, Elek, and Campbell-Grossman, entitled, “Depression, Self-Esteem, Loneliness, and Social Support Among Adolescent Mothers Participating in the New Mothers’ Project” indicate?
What is limitations of the study?
Which is the best strategy for a nurse researcher to use in order to read a research study critically?
What is to clarify unfamiliar terms.
True or False. Because the study emerges over time, the researcher may not anticipate and inform the participants of a potential threat.
A research study explored the meaning of health for migrant farmworker women in Alberta. A convenience sample of 20 migrant farmworker women was surveyed. What is the population of this study?
what is 20 migrant farmworker in Alberta
Researchers used an instrument to measure self-esteem in adolescent mothers. To measure the validity of this instrument, they used a second instrument known to measure self-esteem in women. What type of validity were they measuring?
What is auditability?
Which of the following processes should you avoid when evaluating qualitative research?
Reading the research report to identify participants’ emic views and ideas.
Performing a power analysis to determine the adequacy of sample size.
Determining whether the author’s conclusions reflect the study findings.
Identifying the purpose of the research.
What is Performing a power analysis to determine the adequacy of sample size?
A research question can be converted into a declarative statement that predicts an expected outcome through the use of what?
What is Hypothesis?
Which research method can be used for the purpose of understanding and constructing the meaning of human experience?
What is Phenomenological/Phenomenology
The degree of consistency in data collection between two investigators is referred to as what?
What is Interrater reliability?
When data are skewed and the researcher is interested in the “typical” score, what is the most appropriate measure of central tendency for the nurse researcher to use?
what is Median?
What should be addressed in both the problem statement and the purpose of a quantitative research study report?
What is relationship between variables
A nurse researcher is outlining a premise for an evidence-based project. The researcher should plan to search within how many years in the literature for this project?
What is 5 years?
Which type of research would the nurse researcher choose when interested in acting as a neutral observer during the study?
What is quantitative study?
Researchers used an instrument to measure self-esteem in adolescent mothers. To measure the validity of this instrument, they used a second instrument known to measure self-esteem in women. What type of validity were they measuring?
What is Concurrent Validiy?
A nurse researcher chooses to use convenience sampling with a quantitative research project. If the researcher decides to implement another project using qualitative research instead, what type of sampling would be like convenience sampling?
What is Purposive sampling
What is indicated in this abstract of a study report?
“This research was an exploratory descriptive investigation of the pregnancy experiences of a multiethnic group of pregnant adolescents.”
What is study design?