Exam 20: Understanding Research Utilization and EBP Collaboration in Nursing Practice.

Why is it just as important that a nurse researcher have a good plan for collecting and managing data during a research study as it is essential to use a theoretical or conceptual model to ask the most important research questions?

A research study to determine if cell phone usage results in brain cancer would use which of the following types of investigation?

Which level of EBP collaboration is being demonstrated when a regional hospital provides performance criteria for promoting best practices at each nurse's site of care?

A research assistant is interviewing elderly adults at community center, but only adults who have access to transportation to the center are likely to participate. This illustrates what type of threat to external validity?

Statistical testing can be related to chance occurrence because critical values can indicate that a certain result happened not because of the intervention being tested, but by coincidence.

A researcher studying alcohol usage at colleges and universities may investigate and compare alcohol usage of young adults that attend a college or university against those who do not. This is an example of which type of quantitative study?

One difference in the method of ethnographic qualitative research from the other types is that it uses the method of strategic sampling of a group of people who witnessed or participated in the phenomenon being studied.

A new graduate is working on a medical surgical unit considering implementation of electronic medical records. How are the behaviors of a nurse innovator being demonstrated by this nurse?

A nurse is reading a nursing journal article that discuses several research studies, and the nurse is thinking about how the information from the studies could be best used in the nurse's clinical practice. How is the nurse specifically applying the process of research utilization?

Which of the following is an example of the etiology of lung cancer?

Read the following description of a research study to determine its ranking on the evidence hierarchy: The purpose of this research was to examine whether there are resultant behavioral changes in professionalism for returning adult RN to BSN students, and to identify teaching-learning activities that stimulate transformative learning. (Morris & Faulk, 2007, Perspective transformation: Enhancing the development of professionalism in RN-to-BSN students. Journal of Nursing Education, 46(10), 447). What is this an example of?

To begin a literature review, what initial sources would you use to locate information on your topic of interest?

Which of the following best describes the difference between research utilization and EBP?

The statement, "There will be no difference in practice of nurses after completion of an EBP mentorship program as compared to before the mentorship program," is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is an example of how a nurse manager can advance EBP as part of evaluating his or her staff?

In a study being conducted about whether geriatric patients are receiving the best care for pressure ulcers, which of the following inclusion criteria would a researcher first need to identify for the target population?

A nursing researcher has a well-designed study planned, but the study requires the use of a new data collection survey instrument to prevent possible error in measurement. Prior to starting the planned study, what additional type of study will the researcher need to perform to ensure the new instrument is tested?

When credit is given for a new idea generated by challenging an old idea, it ethically builds nursing knowledge and helps others understand the evolution of that knowledge by honoring the prior research work.

Which of the following characteristics makes randomized controlled trials (RCT) different from other types of quantitative research studies?

How is a target population different from an accessible population?