You decide to conduct a study that begins with cigarette smoking and then looks at lung cancer. Which type of study will you conduct?
a. Outcome study c. Retrospective study
b. Prospective study d. Time series study
Question 2A nurse trained in another country is seeking licensure in the United States. While becoming familiar with the American legal system, the nurse learns that there are three types of public laws that include which of the following?
a. Constitutional, governmental, and criminal
b. Criminal, constitutional, and administrative
c. Criminal, tort, and administrative
d. Administrative, governmental, and civil
Question 3As part of your research, you wish to combine study results and thus integrate the results of multiple studies on a given topic. This action is referred to as:
a. qualitative analysis. c. meta-analysis.
b. quantitative analysis. d. matched case-control study.
Question 4The nurse would identify which action as a strategy that represents a fiscal responsibility in clinical nursing practice?
a. Begin discharge planning as soon as there is an order.
b. Patients should be admitted the evening before a major surgical procedure.
c. Provide care delivered by LPNs whenever possible.
d. Document the current status of the patient.
Question 5In caring for patients in nursing homes or extended care facilities, the nurse recognizes that some patients' care is being funded by Medicare. Which of the following patients is most likely to be covered under Medicare?
a. A 55-year-old patient recovering from a knee replacement
b. A 70-year-old patient recovering from a hip replacement
c. A 16-year-old recovering from a compound fracture of the femur
d. A 30-year-old recovering from an overdose
Question 6A nurse has heard that a fellow nurse at another hospital was charged with assault on a patient. The nurse asks the nurse manager whether assault is the same as battery. The nurse manager explains that assault differs from battery in that it:
a. is the act instead of the threat being done without permission.
b. is the threat instead of the act being done without permission.
c. concerns being offensive without permission.
d. concerns the thought without the act or the threat.
Question 7A nurse researcher is conducting a study that has as its main objective the accurate portrayal of the characteristics of people, situations, or groups, and the frequency with which certain phenomena occur.
The research is implementing which type of study? a. Comparative research c. Correlation research
b. Descriptive research d. Research utilization
Question 8A nursing instructor asks a student to name the four elements required to provide proof of liability. Which response by the student would indicate that further teaching is needed?
a. Obligation created by law, contract, or standard practice that is owed to the professionalby the complainant
b. Breach of this obligation either by omission or commission
c. Physical, emotional, or financial harm to the complainant
d. Proof that the breach of obligation caused the complainant harm
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