Exam 18: Tools for Applying Evidence to Practice

A nurse researcher is seeking studies whose outcomes are described with a measure of precision about the studies' results.Which statistical descriptions would the researcher seek? (Select all that apply.)

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Question 21

When a nurse wants to answer a question about a patient's likely course in a disease trajectory,what kind of study would be most appropriate?

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Question 22

A research mentor is advising a new researcher on aspects of the literature review.Which type of research findings would the mentor recommend as strongest available evidence?

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Question 23

Which type of support for a nursing intervention is reduced or eliminated by EBP?

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Question 24

A nursing researcher is describing likelihood ratios.What is the significance of a diagnostic test with a large positive likelihood ratio?

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Question 25

How is relative risk reduction calculated?

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Question 26

Applying study results to individual patients or to a specific patient population and communicating findings to patients in a meaningful way is the hallmark of:

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Question 27

A nurse is investigating the literature on a clinical topic and is particularly interested in studies that are experimental.What other terms may the nurse encounter in a literature search? (Select all that apply.)

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Question 28

A nursing student critiquing a research study notes that a CI is too large for a new therapy to be clinically meaningful.What factor likely contributed to this statistical outcome?

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Question 29

Skills needed to consult the literature and answer a clinical question are most accurately referred to as:

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Question 30

Types of EBP clinical categories include (select all that apply):

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Question 31

In a clinical trial,the arithmetic difference in rates of bad outcomes between experimental and control patients is most accurately referred to as:

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Question 32

How should the nurse researcher interpret a relative risk that is greater than 1.0?

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Question 33

In an experiment,when a value is obtained that shows no difference between the treatment and control group,the value is referred to as:

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Question 34

A nurse researcher is seeking evidence about the efficacy of pressure-reduction surfaces on development of pressure ulcers in surgical patients.Which database is most likely to yield the highest-level evidence?

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Question 35

A term that is used for the ability of a test or technique to detect a disease when it is truly present is

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Question 36

What statistic should a nurse researcher choose to use in a meta-analysis?

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A nurse researcher is seeking studies whose outcomes are described with a measure of precision about the studies' results.Which statistical descriptions would the researcher seek? (Select all that apply.)

When a nurse wants to answer a question about a patient's likely course in a disease trajectory,what kind of study would be most appropriate?

A research mentor is advising a new researcher on aspects of the literature review.Which type of research findings would the mentor recommend as strongest available evidence?

Which type of support for a nursing intervention is reduced or eliminated by EBP?

A nursing researcher is describing likelihood ratios.What is the significance of a diagnostic test with a large positive likelihood ratio?

How is relative risk reduction calculated?

Applying study results to individual patients or to a specific patient population and communicating findings to patients in a meaningful way is the hallmark of:

A nurse is investigating the literature on a clinical topic and is particularly interested in studies that are experimental.What other terms may the nurse encounter in a literature search? (Select all that apply.)

A nursing student critiquing a research study notes that a CI is too large for a new therapy to be clinically meaningful.What factor likely contributed to this statistical outcome?

Skills needed to consult the literature and answer a clinical question are most accurately referred to as:

Types of EBP clinical categories include (select all that apply):

In a clinical trial,the arithmetic difference in rates of bad outcomes between experimental and control patients is most accurately referred to as:

How should the nurse researcher interpret a relative risk that is greater than 1.0?

In an experiment,when a value is obtained that shows no difference between the treatment and control group,the value is referred to as:

A nurse researcher is seeking evidence about the efficacy of pressure-reduction surfaces on development of pressure ulcers in surgical patients.Which database is most likely to yield the highest-level evidence?

A term that is used for the ability of a test or technique to detect a disease when it is truly present is

What statistic should a nurse researcher choose to use in a meta-analysis?

Integrating the Processes of Research and Evidence-Based Practice

Research Questions, hypotheses, and Clinical Questions

Gathering and Appraising the Literature

Introduction to Qualitative Research

Qualitative Approaches to Research

Appraising Qualitative Research

Introduction to Quantitative Research

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs

Nonexperimental Designs

Sampling

Legal and Ethical Issues

Data-Collection Methods

Reliability and Validity

Data Analysis: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Understanding Research Findings

Appraising Quantitative Research

Developing an Evidence-Based Practice

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