WorksheetsFunds Chapter 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
A student nurse asks an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day. The nurse answers: "I guess we have just always done it that way". This answer is an example of what type of knowledge?
Instinctive knowledge
Scientific knowledge
Authoritative knowledge
Traditional knowledge
A nurse is using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice (JHNEBP) model PET as a clinical decision making tool when delivering care to patients. Which steps reflect the intended use of this tool? Select All That Apply.
A nurse recruits an interprofessional team to develop and refine an EBP question.
A nurse draws from personal experiences of being a patient to establish a therapeutic relationship with a patient.
A nurse searches the Internet to find the latest treatments for type 2 diabetes.
A nurse uses spiritual training to draw strength when counseling a patient who is in hospice for an inoperable brain tumor.
A nurse questions the protocol for assessing postoperative patients in the ICU.
A nurse is using general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statements reflect key points of this theory? Select all that apply.
A system is a set of individual elements that rarely interact with each other.
The whole system is always greater than the sum of its parts.
Boundaries separate systems from each other and their environments.
A change in one subsystem will not affect other subsystems.
To survive, open systems maintain balance through feedback.
A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing care for patients in their health care facility. Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?
Madeline Leininger
Jean Watson
Dorothy E. Johnson
Betty Newman
A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognizes the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of these four, which is most important?
Person
Environment
Health
Nursing
A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. The nurse manager's actions to change clinical practice are an example of a situation described by which nursing theory?
Prescriptive theory
Descriptive theory
Developmental theory
General systems theory
When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:
The subject
Variables
Data
The instrument
A nurse is conducting quantitative research to examine the effects of following nursing protocols in the emergency department (ED) on patient outcomes. This is also known as what type of research?
Descriptive
Correlational
Quasi- experimental
Experimental
A nurse studies the culture of Native Alaskans to determine how their diet affects the overall state of health. Which method of qualitative research is the nurse using?
Historical
Ethnography
Grounded theory
Phenomenology
A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICOT format. What does the letter P represent?
Comparison to another similar protocol
Clearly defined, focused literature review of procedures
Specific identification of the purpose of the study
Explicit descriptions of the population of interest.
True/False. Traditional knowledge comes from an expert and is accepted as truth based on the person’s perceived expertise.
True
False
True/False. The method by which one examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas is known as deductive reasoning.
True
False
True/False. Adaptation theory outlines the process of growth and development of humans as orderly and predictable.
True
False
True/False. Quantitative research involves the concepts of basic and applied research.
True
False
True/False. Nursing care activities that are supported by valid and reliable research is known as evidence-based practice.
True
False
Nursing (a) differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices.
A group of concepts that follow an understandable pattern makes up a (a) framework or model.
Theories that address nursing interventions and the consequences of those interventions are called (a) ; they are designed to promote, control, and change clinical nursing practice.
Four concepts common in nursing theory are the person, the environment, (a) , and nursing.
Phenomenology is a type of (a) research that describes experiences as they are lived by the subjects being studied.
