Week 2 Knowledge Check

A  They are too specific

B  They are missing essential elements required for a focused project

C  They are too vague

D  Would recommending the shingles vaccine to all patients ages 65 and older who are seen in our medical clinics reduce the incidence of shingles? For this population are there any contraindications to receiving it? 

E  They include all essential elements for a focused project

A  By advertising for persons to participate in the study

B  By selecting persons from an assumed population who meet the inclusion criteria

C  By recruiting every other person who meets the inclusion criteria admitted on three consecutive days

D  By selecting names from a list of all members of a population in a way that allows only chance to determine who is selected

A  Outcome reliability

B  Confidence intervals

C  Inter-rater reliability

D  Internal validity

A  Make arrangements to get on the Nursing Practice Council’s agenda to discuss the issue

B  Try out the new method and see how it works

C  Discuss the study and the new method with a nurse leader, clinical nurse specialist, or nurse manager

D  Talk to a physician with diabetic expertise about the method

A  An adverse patient event

B  Quality data indicating less than ideal patient outcomes

C  Patient dissatisfaction with care

D  A family disagreement about continuing life support of an elderly parent

A  To measure and describe the features or elements of a situation

B  To create a case study describing the experiences of a patient with a particular problem

C  To create a descriptive model of the dynamics of a situation

D  To describe the research that has been done regarding a particular topic/issue

A  Qualitative research produces rich and nuanced portrayals of the phenomenon being studies

B  In grounded theory research, data collection and data analysis are interspersed, not sequential.

C  Ethnographic research produces a rich portrayal of the norms, values, and social rules of a health or healthcare subculture.

D  There are no standards for methods of collecting data and analyzing data in qualitative research

A  Research conducted by novice researchers to develop basic research skills

B  Studies that are of very high quality

C  Research conducted using phenomenological methods

D  A group of research methods aimed at capturing social process, personal experiences, perceptions, and the working of subcultures