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NCLEX Review Questions

NCLEX Review Questions

This activity contains 10 questions.

	Evidence-based practice has been established to advance nursing practice. The goals for this practice have been to:   reduce health care costs and improve health care. facilitate the highest quality of care and the best client outcomes. encourage increased research utilization in nursing practice. evaluate research findings and scientific evidence to a specific clinical question.

	What factors are related to research utilization by nurses?   Lack of time to read research. Availability of research findings and nurses' attitudes toward research. Nurses’ perceived lack of authority to change client care procedures. Lack of support and cooperation from physicians, administrators, and other staff.

	What are the purposes of scientific research?   Description, exploration, explanation, prediction, and control Discussion, examination, problem solving, and decision making Examination, exploration, prediction, and evaluation Description, explanation, prediction, and control

	What are the sources of information that nursing practice has relied on for its knowledge base?   Tradition Authority Experience and trial and error All of the above

	What is the name of the nursing organization whose mission is to provide leadership and scholarship in practice, education, and research to enhance the health of all people?   American Nurses Association Sigma Theta Tau International National League for Nursing Association of American Colleges of Nursing

	What role do nurses in clinical practice play in the research process?   Nurses identify the problems in need of investigation and collaborate with nurse researchers. Nurses recommend appropriate solutions to the problems. Nurses design the studies to address the problems identified. Nurses analyze the data in the research study.

	Which federal agency is involved in the development of clinical guidelines?   Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration National Institute of Health Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

	Who was the nurse leader who integrated research into the graduate nursing curriculum?   Virgina Henderson Martha Rogers Isabel Stewart Florence Nightingale

	Why have nurses been known to be slow to use research findings in their clinical practice?   Nursing research is fairly new to clinical practice. Nursing service does not require nurse clinicians to apply research findings to clinical practice. There is limited nursing research data from which to practice and many nurse clinicians are not comfortable enough with research to apply it to practice. Nurse researchers and nurses in practice have not been encouraged to collaborate on joint research projects and studies.

	Why must nurses learn to conduct a critical appraisal of research reports published in the literature?   Nurses are not required to conduct critiques of research reports. It allows nurses to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the study purpose. It enables nurses to evaluate the scientific merit of the study and decide how the results may be useful in practice. It provides nurses with an understanding of the statistical and clinical significance of the study.

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