Nursing Research (NOTE: one of my references is my 4.

In the Review of Related Literature, the nurse

notes when I was having my NLE review at FEU-NRMF) researcher may:
a. Locate pertinent data useful for the
1. Nursing research is all of the following except: researcher’s study
a. Systematic b. Find comparative data that will be valuable
b. Controlled in interpreting the conclusions on the
c. Empirical researcher’s study
d. Biased c. Determine if some research has already
Answer: D – Characteristics: Systemic, Controlled, been done on the researcher’s study
empirical, and Critical investigation ---Ultimate d. Do all of the above
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2. Research is done for the following except: 5. Once the nurse researcher has collected the
a. Explanation data needed for the study, the next step is to:
b. Exploration a. Analyze the data
c. Satisfaction b. Organize the data
d. Prediction c. Interpret the data
Answer: C – Purpose: Describe, Explain, Explore, d. Relate the data to the hypothesis
Develop, and Predict ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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3. A type of research that is associated with 6. The research for organizing data for analysis is
Naturalistic inquiry (reality is not a fixed entity to:
but rather a construction of individual a. Draw the conclusion
participating in research), and gathers narrative b. Make a statement of the results
description as data: c. Determine what data has been collected
a. Quantitative ---associated with positivist d. Determine what data has not been
tradition, and gather numerical values as collected
data
b. Qualitative Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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problem situation and examine the
underlying factors that contribute to the 7. Prediction of the outcome of the research is
stated as:
emergence of the problem
d. Explanatory ---to understand or explain a a. Sample
b. Chi square
prevailing situation; to explain a
relationship between factors which may c. Hypothesis
d. Methodology
have already been identified in exploratory
studies and why the relationship exists Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
Review 2005 Edition, pg. 356 + own notes 8. Statements which are generally accepts as true
are known as:
Situation: The following questions refer to the Research
Process a. Assumption
 b. Hypothesis ---educated guess or tentative c. Low birth weight
answer to a question d. None of the above
c. Statistics
Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
d. Theories ---statements that are yet to be
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Situation: The following questions are regarding the

Answer: A ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
Review 2005 Edition, pg. 358 + own notes research hypothesis “Most postpartum depression and
feelings of inadequacy are reported by women who has
Situation: The following questions are regarding the given birth by Cesarean Section than those who deliver
research hypothesis “Birth Weight is lower among vaginally”
infants of alcoholic mothers than among infants of non-
alcoholic mothers” 12. Which type of hypothesis is the research
hypothesis above?
9. Which type of hypothesis is the research a. Complex hypothesis
hypothesis above? b. Directional hypothesis
a. Null hypothesis ---any statement that has c. Operational hypothesis ---same as simple
no relationship or difference between one d. Non-directional hypothesis ---only predicts
variable to another single variable the relationship but has no specific
b. Simple hypothesis ---states the anticipated direction between variable
relationship or difference between one
variable to another single variable Answer: A ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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c. Complex hypothesis ---states the
anticipated relationship between two or 13. Which of the following is the independent
more variables to another variable variable?
d. Directional hypothesis ---specifies the a. Mothers
direction of the relationship between b. Type of delivery
variables; one direction only c. Postpartum depression
d. Feelings of inadequacy
Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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10. Which of the following is the independent
variable? 14. Which of the following id the dependent
a. Infants ---involved population variable?
b. Alcoholic a. Type of delivery
c. Both A and B b. Postpartum depression
d. Lowe birth weight c. Feelings of inadequacy
d. Both B and C
Answer: B – The dependent variable is the effect while
the independent variable is the cause and is common Answer: D ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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Situation: The following questions are regarding the
11. Which of the following is the dependent research hypothesis “Patients receiving warm irrigation
variable? solutions during arthroscopic knee surgery would
a. Infants maintain a higher core body temperature than those
b. Alcoholic irrigation solutions at room temperature”
 15. Which type of hypothesis is the research 19. Which of the following is the independent
hypothesis above? variable?
a. Simple hypothesis a. Air bed
b. Complex hypothesis b. Normal Bed
c. Directional hypothesis c. Comatose Clients
d. Operational hypothesis d. Lower the incidence of skin breakdown

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16. Which of the following is the independent 20. Which of the following is the dependent
variable? variable?
a. Warm irrigation solution a. Air bed
b. Room temperature irrigation solution b. Comatose clients
c. Would maintain higher core body c. Lower the incidence of skin breakdown
temperature d. Both A and B
d. Both A and B
Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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Situation: The following question is regarding the
17. Which of the following is the dependent research hypothesis “Daily weight loss is greater for
variable? adults who follow a reduced calorie diet and exercise
a. Warm irrigation solution daily than those who do not follow a reduced calorie
b. Room temperature irrigation solution diet and do not exercise daily”
c. Would maintain higher core body
temperature 21. Which type of hypothesis is the research
hypothesis above?
d. None of the above
a. Simple hypothesis
Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing b. Complex hypothesis
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d. Operational hypothesis
Situation: The following questions are regarding the
research hypothesis “Comatose patients placed on an Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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than those who are not”
22. Which of the following is the independent
18. Which type of hypothesis is the research variable?
hypothesis above? a. Adults ---involved population
a. Complex hypothesis b. Weight loss
b. Research hypothesis ---states that a c. Reduce calorie diet and exercise
difference or correlation does exist d. Both B and C
c. Directional hypothesis
d. Non-directional hypothesis Answer: C ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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variable?
a. Adults
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d. Both A and C
28. The novice researcher will be able to find
Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing researchable problems best from:
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b. Nursing policies
Situation: The following questions are regarding the c. Nursing principles
research hypothesis “Tall people eat more than small d. Nursing interventions and modalities
people”
Answer: D (own notes)
24. Which type of hypothesis is the research
hypothesis above? 29. In finding a research topic in the are of Nursing
a. Simple hypothesis Interventions, your best source of advice will be
b. Complex hypothesis consulting your:
c. Operational hypothesis a. Peers
d. Both A and C b. Nursing educators
c. Nursing practitioner
Answer: D ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing d. Patient and their family
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Answer: C (own notes)
25. Which of the following is the independent
variable? 30. The title of the study is “The life and Death of
a. Eat more the 19th Century English Lunatic Asylum”
b. Tall people a. Historical ---seeks only to discover events
c. Small people of the past to relate it to the present and
d. Both B and C to the future
b. Descriptive ---a study that describes the
Answer: B ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing nature of the phenomenon under
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26. Which of the following is the dependent practices, and condition
variable? c. Case Study
a. Eat more d. Phenomenological
b. Tall people Answer: A --- Historical and Descriptive research
c. Small people design are subcategories of Non –experimental
d. None of the above research design (own notes)
Answer: A ---Ultimate Learning Guide to Nursing
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27. It is common of novice researcher to have initial

difficulty in finding research topic because of
the following reasons:
a. Unfamiliarity with the previous researches
and research procedures
b. Unfamiliarity of what constitutes a problem
c. Both A and B
d. A only