Exam 22: Translating Research Into Practice

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding evidence-based practice?

At an organizational level,which of the following strategies would assist in ensuring that EBP is incorporated into nursing care?

The nurse manager of an intensive care unit wants to implement the revised policy and procedure on central-line catheter care.What would be the most effective method of getting the staff nurses to incorporate a new evidence-based practice into their care?

Which of the following would be considered research?

Which of the following would be most effective in implementing the findings of Dobbins,Ciliska,Estabrooks,et al.(2005)on treating problems associated with bowel motility?

The chief nursing officer at a local hospital seeking Magnet™ status creates staff development classes about incorporating evidence-based nursing.What best describes evidence-based nursing?

Volunteers in a study are assigned randomly to groups.Some of the volunteers receive an herbal supplement that is reputed to control nausea,and some of the volunteers are assigned to a control group to which a placebo is administered.This is an example of a(n)

The chief nursing officer at a local hospital seeking Magnet™ status creates staff development classes concerning research utilization.What best describes research utilization?

Understanding why it is important to provide certain strategies for the emotional support of parents of critically ill children is an example of

You are excited by evidence supporting the use of personal digital assistants at the patients' bedsides to improve documentation and patient outcomes.You have disseminated the information through discussions and e-mails and are now ready to begin the process of considering implementation on the unit.To develop positive attitudes toward the use and implementation of the technology,you would discuss your ideas with which of the following people (according to Rogers's [2003] diffusion of innovation theory)?

Once evidence related to the use of prompted voiding in patients with cognitive impairment has been appraised and integrated with practice,it is important to

The nurse manager wants to use evidence-based recommendations to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.What type of research would provide the strongest evidence for this clinical issue?

The clinical guidelines for management of incontinence developed by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Before implementation of the new policy and procedure on central-line catheter care,the nurse manager uses an appraisal system to evaluate the evidence.What is important in using an appraisal system to evaluate the evidence gathered in preparation for development of a new protocol?

Tara,the unit manager,is telling her colleague about her recent project,which involves seeking the most effective approaches to incontinence care,with the intention of adopting evidence-based approaches on her dementia care unit.Her colleague suggests that knowledge translation is

Which of the following is a meta-analysis?

The implementation of saline flushes for capped angiocatheters is an example of

To help staff nurses adjust to using research in practice,what strategy would the nurse manager use?

Within a multisite health care system,the most appropriate strategy for translation of research would be

The nurse manager decides to change staffing schedules in the intensive care unit.She chooses to use Rogers's (2003)diffusion of innovations theory to implement the change.What are the elements of Rogers's diffusion of innovations theory?