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Nursing Research Practice Exam

PT-Nursing Research Questions The current trend of questions in the previous Nurse Licensure Examination are mostly about the concepts of Nursing Research.This practice test will help you assess your knowledge about nursing research.

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Question 1

A researcher does review of related literature for the purpose of

	answering the research question
	gathering data about what is already known or unknown about the problem
	to identify if problem can be replicated
	determine statistical treatment of data research

Question 2

What does a sample group represent?

	General population
	Control group
	Universe
	Study subjects

Question 3

A student nurse visited a tribe located somewhere in China. She studied the way of life, tradition and the societal structure of these people. Which among the following is an appropriate research design?

	Ethnographic
	Historical
	Case Study
	Phenomenological

Question 4

A nursing student wants to know if the of time she will study for the board examination is proportional to her board rating. During the June 2008 board examination. She studied for 6 months and gained 60%. On the next board exam, she studied for 6 months again for a total of 1 year and gained 74%. On the third board exam, she studied for 6 months for a total of 1 and a half year and gained 82%. The research she used is:

	Cohort Study
	Comparative
	Experimental Study
	Longitudinal Study

Question 5

You decided to include 5 barangays in your municipality and chose a sampling method that would get representative samples from each barangay. What should be the appropriate method ofor you to use in this care?

	Stratified sampling
	Systematic sampling
	Random sampling
	Cluster sampling

Question 6

You would like to compare the support system of patient with chronic illness to those with acute illness. How will you best state your problem?

	A descriptive study to compare the support system of patients with chronic illness and those with acute illness in terms of demographic data and knowledge
	The effects of the types of support system of patients with chronic illness and those with acute illness
	A study to compare the support system of patients with chronic illness and those with acute illness.
	What are the differences of the support system being received by patient with chronic illness and patients with acute illness?
	A comparative analysis of the support system of patients with chronic illness and those with acute illness

Question 7

Barangay A was selected randomly as well as Barangay B, Nurse Edly conducted teaching to Barangay A and assess if Barangay A will have a better status than Barangay B. This is an example of:

	Comparative
	Correlational
	Qualitative
	Experimental

Question 8

In an array of: 88, 81, 89, 88, 90, 92, 90: What is the mean?

	88.4
	88.1
	88.2
	88.3

Question 9

In the hypothesis: “The utilization of technology in teaching improves the retention and attention of the nursing students.” Which is the dependent variable?

	Nursing students
	Utilization of technology
	Improvement in the retention and attention
	Teaching

Question 10

Which among the following is the most important characteristic of a sample?

	Representativeness
	Appropriate number
	Location
	Randomization

Question 11

In any research study where individual persons are involved, it is important that an informed consent of the study is obtained. The following are essential information about the consent that you should disclose to the prospective subject except:

	Description of benefits, risks and discomforts
	Explaining of procedure
	Consent to incomplete
	Assurance of anonymity and confidentiality

Question 12

You are interested to study the effects of medication and tactile stimulation on the pain experienced by the cancer patients. What type of variable is pain?

	Interdependent
	Independent
	X Variable
	Dependent

Question 13

According to the WHO statistics on the Homeless population around the world. Which of the following groups of people in the world disproportionately represents the homeless population?

	Asians
	Hispanics
	Caucasians
	African Americans

Question 14

Which of the following methods allows the use of any group of research subject?

	Convenience
	Purposive
	Snow-ball
	Quota

Question 15

The use of another person’s ideas or wordings giving appropriate credit results from inaccurate attribution of materials to its sources. Which of the following is referred to when another person’s idea is inappropriate credited as one’s own?

	Plagiarism
	Assumption
	Quotation
	Paraphrase

Question 16

Anton was always eating high fat diet. You want to determine if what will be the effect of high cholesterol food to Anton in the next 10 years. You will use:

	Comparative
	Longitudinal
	Historical
	Correlational

Question 17

As a professional, a nurse can do research for varied reason except:

	For financial gains
	Professional advancement through research participation
	To validate results of new nursing modalities
	To improve nursing care

Question 18

Each nurse participants was asked to identify a problem. After the identification of the research problem, which of the following should be done?

	Review of related literature
	Acknowledgement
	Methodology
	Formulate hypothesis

Question 19

SITUATION: Myrna, a researcher, proposes a study on the relationship between health values and the health promotion activities of staff nurses in a selected college of nursing.In formulating the research hypotheses, researcher Myrna should state the research question as:

	Is there a significant relationship between health values and health promotion activities of the staff nurses?
	What is the response of the staff nurses to the health values?
	How do health values affect health promotion activities of the staff nurses?
	How is variable “health value” perceived in a population?

Question 20

Client’s rights should be protected when doing research using human subjects. These rights below are correct EXCEPT:

	right not to be harmed
	right to compensation
	right of privacy
	right of self-determination

Question 21

Which of the following usually refers to the independent variables in doing research?

	Result
	Cause
	Effect
	Output

Question 22

All but one of the following is not a measure of Central Tendency?

	Standard Deviation
	Mode
	Variance
	Range

Question 23

In both quantitative and qualitative research, the used of a frame of reference is required. Which of the following items serves as the purpose of a framework?

	Incorporates theories into nursing’s body of knowledge
	Identifies concepts and relationships between concepts
	Provides logical structure of the research findings
	Organizes the development of study and links the findings to nursing’s body of knowledge

Question 24

A supposition or system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon best defines:

	Paradigm
	A theory
	A conceptual framework
	Concept

Question 25

The recipients of experimental treatment are an experimental design or the individuals to be observed in a non-experimental design are called:

	Sample
	Treatment
	Setting
	Subjects

Question 26

In the value: 80, 80, 80, 82, 82, 90, 90,100, 90. What is the mode?

	80
	85
	82
	90

Question 27

The information that an investigator collects from the subjects or participants in a research study is usually called:

	Hypothesis
	Data
	Variable
	Concept

Question 28

A patient is participating in a cardiac study in which his physician is directly involved. Which statement by the patientindicates a lack of understanding about his rights as a research study participant?

	“My confidentiality will not be compromised in this study”
	“ I understand the risk associated in this study”
	“I can withdraw from the study anytime”
	“ I’ll have to find a new physician if I don’t complete this study”

Question 29

Which of the following studies is based on quantitative research?

	A study exploring the factors influencing weight control behavior
	A study measuring the effects of sleep deprivation on patients healing
	A study examining client’s feeling before, during and after bone marrow aspiration.
	A study examining the bereavement express in spouse or clients with terminal cancer

Question 30

A nurse researcher wants to do a study on this topic: “Effects of massage and meditation on stress and pain”. The type of research that best suits this topic is:

	Basic research
	Applied research
	Qualitative research
	Quantitative research

Question 31

Which of the following communicate the results of the research to the readers? They facilitate the description of the data.

	Research Problem
	Hypothesis
	Statistics
	Tables and Graphs

Question 32

Evidence-based care started in medicine as a way to:

	Integrate individual experience with clinical research
	Teach medical students the art and science of medicine
	Promote technological advances in medicine
	Incorporate collaboration within all health care disciplines

Question 33

Which of the following is not true about a Pure Experimental Research?

	Selection of subjects in the control group is randomized
	There is a control group
	There is an experimental group
	There is a careful selection of subjects in the experimental group

Question 34

This expresses the variability of the data in reference to the mean. It provides as with a numerical estimate of how far, on the average the separate observation are from the mean:

	Mode
	Standard deviation
	Median
	Frequency

Question 35

The nurse researcher mutually agreed with the research subjects that all personal data of the subjects shall be kept confidential. To safeguard anonymity of data after the report is written, the nurse researcher should:

	keep the papers for 5 years and dispose of these after
	burn or shred the papers
	have the papers recycle but not as writing scratch paper
	throw the papers in a wastebasket

Question 36

The researcher implemented a medication regimen using a new type of combination of drugs to manic patients while another group of manic patient receives the routine drugs. The researcher however handpicked the experimental group for they are the clients with multiple episodes of bipolar disorder. The researcher utilized which research design?

	Pure experimental
	Phenomenological
	Quasi-experimental
	Longitudinal

Question 37

In the value 80, 80, 10, 10, 25, 65, 100, 200: What is the median?

	10 and 25
	71.25
	72.5
	22.5

Question 38

Ana researched on the development of a new way to measure intelligence by creating a 100 item questionnaire that will assess the cognitive skills of an individual. The design best suited for this study is:

	Case study
	Survey
	Historical
	Methodological

Question 39

Which of the following might prevent the conduct of a research study?

	costs for conducting the study are low compared to the potential benefits from the researcher
	in order to gather data for the research, excessive risk to subject is required
	the research problem is based on untested nursing theories
	the identified problem is covered in the literature

Question 40

Random sampling ensures that each subject has:

	Been selected systematically
	Been selected based on set criteria
	Characteristics that match other samples
	An equal chance of selection

Question 41

Which of the following studies is based on the qualitative research?

	A study examining oxygen levels after endotracheal suctioning
	A study measuring nutrition and weight loss/gain in clients with cancer
	A study examining client’s reaction to stress after open heart surgery
	A study measuring differences in blood pressure before, during and after procedure

Question 42

If the researcher implemented a new structured counseling program with a randomized group of subject and a routine counseling program with another randomized group of subject, the research is utilizing which design?

	Comparative
	Methodological
	Quasi experimental
	Experimental

Question 43

A nurse is conducting a research study on how mark, an AIDS client lives his life. A design suited for this is:

	Ethnographic
	Phenomenological
	Case Study
	Historical

Question 44

Draw Lots, Lottery, Table of random numbers or a sampling that ensures that each element of the population has an equal and independent chance of being chosen is called:

	Simple
	Systematic
	Stratified
	Cluster

Question 45

Mikee needs to review relevant literature and studies. The following processes are undertaken in reviewing literature EXCEPT:

	using the library
	clarifying a research topic
	locating and identifying resources
	reading and recording notes

Question 46

In Quantitative date, which of the following is described as the distance in the scoring unites of the variable from the highest to the lower?

	Frequency
	Range
	Median
	Mean

Question 47

Who is the first nurse researcher?

	Florence Nightingale
	Dorethea Orem
	Sandara Park
	Martha Rogers
	Joyce Black
	Sr. Callista Roy

Question 48

A nurse researched on TB. Its transmission, Causative agent and factors, treatment, sign and symptoms as well as medication and all other in depth information about tuberculosis. This study is best suited for which research design?

	Ethnographic
	Phenomenological
	Case Study
	Historical

Question 49

The device or techniques an investigator employs to collect data is called?

	Concept
	Instrument
	Sample
	Hypothesis

Question 50

A research on “Surgical Instrument Availability” will help the surgical team:

	restructure OR scheduling system
	ensure efficient completion of surgical instrument
	improve instrument decontamination
	streamline instrument inventory

Question 51

A nurse researcher is to perform a study about how nurses perform surgical asepsis during World War II. A design for this study is:

	Phenomenological
	Case Study
	Historical
	Ethnographic

Question 52

You would like to compare the support system of patients with chronic illness to those with acute illness. Considering that the hypothesis was: “Clients with chronic illness have lesser support system than clients with acute illness.” What type of research is this?

	Correlational, Non experimental
	Experimental
	Quasi Experimental
	Descriptive

Question 53

An 75 year old client in a nursing home tells a nurse, “I signed the papers of that research study because the doctor was so insistent and I want him to continue taking care for me”. Which client right is being violated?

	Right of self determination
	Right to self-disclosure
	Right not to be harmed
	Right to privacy and confidentiality

Question 54

The type of research design that does not manipulate the independent variable is:

	Non-experimental design
	Quasi-experimental design
	Experimental design
	Descriptive design

Question 55

The primary purpose for reviewing literature is to:

	select topics related to the problem of interest
	organize materials related to the problem of interest
	gathers current knowledge of the problem of interest
	generate broad background and understanding of information related to the research problem of interest

Question 56

Which type of research inquiry investigates the issue of human complexity (e.g. understanding the human expertise)?

	positivism
	quantitative research
	natural inquiry
	logical position

Question 57

This research topic has the potential to contribute to nursing because it seeks to

	include new modalities of care
	clarify an ambiguous modality of care
	resolve a clinical problem
	enhance client care

Question 58

As experimental research designs have their strengths, so does non-experimental researches. Which of the following statements is NOT one of the strengths of non-experimental designs?

	easier to gain cooperation of study subjects
	less expensive
	can be completed in a short span of time
	useful for predictive purposes

Question 59

Every year we discover new methods or gadgets to improve man’s life. The research typed used of this nature is:

	applied
	developmental
	quantitative
	experimental

Question 60

A researcher wants to determine some of the problems that are experienced by diabetic clients when using an Insulin pump. The investigation went into a clinic where he personally knows several diabetic clients having problem with insulin pump. The type of sampling done by the investigator is called:

	Incidental
	Purposive
	Probability
	Snowball

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