Exam 5: Linking Theory, Research, and Practice

When Virginia Henderson is credited with publishing the first definition of nursing as "to attend the functional needs of patients" in a text from 1955, but this definition of nursing was really given by her coauthor, Bertha Harmer, in a 1925 text, what is occurring?

Florence Nightingale's definition of health as "the absence of disease" is an example of which type of definition?

A researcher studying hand hygiene practices of visitors to medical facilities hypothesizes that if hand sanitizer dispensers are placed by the doors of bathroom facilities, then a significant percentage of facility users will replace soap-and-water hand hygiene with sanitizer hygiene only. Which of the following guides the researcher's hypothesis?

When researchers and theorists contributing to the body of nursing knowledge fail to give credit to the work of those who came before them, the evolution of nursing knowledge becomes difficult to trace.

When a patient does not respond to a well-researched intervention that is normally successful, the nurse must rely more on research findings and less on clinical judgment and patient preference.

Which statement regarding inductive research is true?

Which of the following individuals is engaging in research and theory development at the micro level?

A researcher wants to design a study that investigates the effects of engagement with animals on the emotional health of patients in long-term inpatient care. In order to measure the variable "emotional health," what must the researcher first develop?

When a researcher uses deduction to formulate a hypothesis and then forms a theory, why can it be said that a theory is never proven?

In the United States during the 1970s, nursing practice included the use of granulated sugar to pack stage III and IV wounds based on the idea that bacteria would be less invasive of new tissue formation. Over time, this method did not result in statistically significant increases in wound-healing time when compared to the saline wet-packing method. Research was initiated to determine which packing method led to the best wound healing. The use of sugar for wound packing was an example of what type of practice?