TEST BANK: Primary Care: Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing - An Interprofessional Approach 5th edition Dunphy

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Chapter 1. Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of Caring 1. A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of handwashing onthe incidence of nosocomial ... (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care settings. An article presented findings at a level of significance of <0.01. This indicatesthat A) the control group and the experimental group were more than 99%similar. B) the findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable tochance. C) the effects of the intervention were nearlyzero. D) the clinical significance of the findings was less than1:100. 2. A nurse has read a qualitative research study in order to understand the lived experience ofparents who have a neonatal loss. Which of the following questions should the nurse prioritize when appraising the results of thisstudy? A) How well did the authors capture the personal experiences of theseparents? B) How well did the authors control for confounding variables that may have affected thefindings? C) Did the authors use statistical measures that were appropriate to the phenomenon inquestion? D) Were the instruments that the researchers used statistically valid andreliable? 3. A nurse has expressed skepticism to a colleague about the value of nursing research, claimingthat nursing research has little relevance to practice. How can the nurses colleague best defend the importance of nursingresearch? A) The existence of nursing research means that nurses are now able to access federal grant money, something that didnt use to be thecase. B) Nursing research has allowed the development of masters and doctoral programs and hasgreatly increased the credibility of theprofession. C) The growth of nursing research has caused nursing to be viewed as a true profession, rather than simply as a trade or askill. D) The application of nursing research has the potential to improve nursing practice andpatient outcomes. 4. Tracy is a nurse with a baccalaureate degree who works in the labor and delivery unit of abusy urban hospital. She has noticed that many new mothers abandon breast-feeding their babies when they experience early challenges and wonders what could be done to encourage more women to continue breast-feeding. What role is Tracy most likely to play in a research project that tests an intervention aimed at promotingbreast-feeding? A) Applying for grant funding for the researchproject B) Posing the clinical problem to one or more nursingresearchers C) Planning the methodology of the researchproject D) Carrying out the intervention and submitting the results for publication [Show More]

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