Exam 21: Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis

Reflect on copyright law and why it is needed. Suppose you determine that photographs or other images can be replicated based on your assessment of fair use, but your administrative assistant refuses to photocopy them because he feels that it is copyright infringement and against company policy. Describe in detail how you would handle this situation.

Different Web address (domain) suffixes indicate who is responsible for creating the website. A Web address sponsored by the government would have which suffix?

A nurse researcher is reviewing data on the frequencies of a symptom in a computerized database. This type of data is which of the following?

How should a nursing student go about reviewing a webpage to see if the information is up to date?

Quantitative data are more concerned with describing meaning than with making statistical inferences.

An important issue associated with Internet-based data collection is whether participants actually are who they say they are, and whether they actually have the variable of interest or are just pretending to be someone or something they are not.

Interview responses from research participants provide qualitative data.

Which of the following are professional databases?

A nurse researcher collects qualitative, free text data. Which of the following is the next step in the research process?

A nurse researcher is concerned about the completeness, consistency, and accuracy of data and will use which data collection tool to reduce the risk of error?

Database management systems consist of software designed to collect, sort, organize, store, retrieve, select, and aggregate data. Nursing and health data may be classified into four basic types:

A nurse researcher can use the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software for intervention research, quality improvement studies, and outcomes research.

A nurse researcher is using electronic data collection, which has which of the following benefits?

A nurse researcher is dividing participants into two groups based on whether they have had an exposure to a specific risk factor. Which type of research is being conducted?

Harder-to-measure, nonnumerical qualitative data can be collected electronically in the form of a narrative or diary-like entry. Much in the way free text is analyzed and sorted, this narrative dialogue is assessed and then coded, looking for patterns and themes that represent the phenomenon under study.

Provide a detailed description of how NI facilitates both qualitative and quantitative research.

Different Web address (domain) suffixes indicate who is responsible for creating the website. A Web address sponsored by an educational institution would have which suffix?

A nurse is collecting data on a patient's age, gender, and educational level. The nurse would classify the data as which of the following?

A nursing student is writing a paper and is using information retrieved from the Internet. Which statement by the nursing instructor is correct?

A nurse has downloaded a patient education handout from an outside proprietary company while at work and did not request permission from the author to distribute the handout to patients. Whom has violated copyright?