Deck 3: Evidence-Based Practice

Question 1

What is the purpose of the nursing research chairs established across Canada?

A) to promote evidence-based practice
B) to promote the nursing profession
C) to examine nursing practice and resources,and develop knowledge transfer strategies
D) to fund nursing research

Answer 1

to examine nursing practice and resources,and develop knowledge transfer strategies

Question 2

Some concerns about evidence-based practice expressed by nurses and other health professionals include which of the following statements?

A) It requires additional education.
B) It requires additional time and resources.
C) It is difficult to implement.
D) It ignores client preferences and values.

Answer 2

It ignores client preferences and values.

Question 3

What does the term EPC stand for in relation to health care research?

A) evidence-based care
B) evidence-based practice and collaboration
C) evidence-based practice centres
D) evidence-based consultations

Answer 3

evidence-based practice centres

Question 4

Which of the following is an evidenced-based nursing program or initiative in Canada?

A) Joanna Briggs Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery
B) Sara Cole Hirsch Institute for Best Nursing Practice Based on Evidence
C) Nursing Health Services Research Unit
D) The University of York Centre for Evidenced Based Nursing

Question 5

Despite the importance of evidence-based medicine,many physicians have been concerned that it may most devalue which of the following factors?

A) individual preference
B) clinical expertise
C) continuing education
D) the art of clinical medicine

Question 6

Which of these factors does evidence-based medicine and practice integrate with the best external evidence and individual clinical expertise?

A) RTCs
B) current practice
C) client choice
D) physician preferences

Question 7

At which university's school of medicine was the term evidence-based medicine first coined?

A) Johns Hopkins University
B) University of Toronto
C) McMaster University
D) Oxford University

Question 8

Which other two terms does the term evidence-based practice encompass?

A) evidence-based medicine and the clinical setting
B) evidence-based medicine and evidenced-based care
C) guidelines and care plans
D) research utilization and practice

Question 9

Which observation about the actual implementation of evidenced-based practice is often true in practice?

A) A large portion of clinical practice in medicine is not supported by research.
B) Most clinical practice is evidence based.
C) Research evidence has replaced traditional practices in health care.
D) A large portion of nursing practice is not supported by research.

Question 10

Which type of evidence is used by nursing administrators to inform their decision-making?

A) quasi-experimental studies
B) organization evidence
C) political evidence
D) qualitative research evidence

Question 11

Which of the following is referred to by the acronym KTE?

A) Knowledge Transfer and Exchange
B) Knowledge Terms and Education
C) Knowledge Technology and Education
D) Knowledge Transfer and Effect

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a government-funded project to examine nursing-sensitive client outcomes?

A) the Evidenced-Based Nursing Study
B) the Ontario Nursing Task Force
C) the Nursing and Health Outcomes Project
D) the Best Nursing Practice Project

Question 13

Which of the following defines the term meta-analysis?

A) a statistical technique to compare results of different studies
B) an evaluation of a large number of similar studies
C) an overview of related research studies
D) a statistical technique for pooling results of multiple studies measuring the same outcome

Question 14

Which of these information sources provides nurses with up-to-the-moment clinical information that warrants immediate attention?

A) Evidenced-Based Nursing
B) Clinical Nursing Research
C) Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
D) Worldwide Nursing

Question 15

In researching a focused clinical question,what type of source would provide an appraisal of comprehensive current evidence?

A) synthesis
B) a systematic review
C) a database
D) narrative review

Question 16

Which term refers to research on the safety and effectiveness of nursing interventions?

A) clinical expertise evidence
B) best research evidence
C) evidence-based research
D) clinical interventions data

Question 17

What is the term for the systematic review of international medical research literature that was started by a British epidemiologist?

A) the McMaster Library
B) the Cochrane Database
C) Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis
D) the Cochrane Library

Question 18

What is the purpose of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)?

A) to promote the development of evidence-based care
B) to bridge the gap between research and health care management and policy
C) to conduct primary research
D) to provide funding for research