Chapter 1, 2, & 3 End of Text Questions (Mallory)

Question 1

The Affordable Care Act provides for the expansion of insurance to cover more Americans

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The IOM report to Err is Human makes recommendations for nursing education and practice

Answer 2

True

Question 3

EBP is best described as the use of only research for making clinical decisions

Answer 3

False-Use evidence from research, evidence-based theories, opinion leaders, and expert panels; evidence from assessments of patients, clinical expertise, healthcare setting and availability of resources, patient preferences

Question 4

Evidence from experimental research is best for describing the number of people affected by chronic disease

Answer 4

False. Descriptive

Question 5

Statistics is a scientific approach to express data or characteristics being studied

Answer 5

True

Question 6

EBP is always founded on research evidence

Question 7

Nurses with masters and doctorate of nursing practice degrees are expected to carry out original research?

Question 8

Researchers take a sample from the population to infer the findings or results about a population

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Because descriptive statistics have a different objective from inferential statistics, they should not be performed together

Answer 9

o False. They compliment each other

Question 10

What is the general process of organizing, summarizing, and describing the collected data in an easier format

Answer 10

Descriptive Statistics

Question 11

A researcher wants to study average sodium intake across various racial and ethnic groups. However, he is concerned that sample sizes for some racial/ethnic groups might be too small to be useful in statistical analyses. What type of sampling procedure might be the most useful for his purpose?

Answer 11

Stratified sampling

Question 12

The length of time in minutes that a patient waits to be called at a hospital is an interval level of measurement

Answer 12

True

Question 13

An investigator asks a patient participant at a local hospital to rate the service as outstanding, good, fair, poor, or very poor. These data are measured on an ordinal level of measurement

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Which of the following is the example of a continuous variable?

Answer 14

Income

Not gender, profit v non profil, or zip codes

Question 15

An instrument can be valid without being reliable

Answer 15

False. An instrument cannot be valid without being reliabl