A student nurse asks an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day. The nurse answers: "I guess we have just always done it that way." This answer is an example of what type of knowledge?
traditional knowledge
A nurse is using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) model PET as a clinical decision-making tool when delivering care to patients. Which steps reflect the intended use of this tool? Select all that apply.
A nurse recruits an interprofessional team to develop and refine an EBP question.
A nurse searches the Internet to find the latest treatments for type 2 diabetes.
A nurse questions the protocol for assessing postoperative patients in the ICU.
A nurse is using general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statements reflect key points of this theory? Select all that apply.
The whole system is always greater than the sum of its parts
Boundaries separate systems from each other and their environments.
To survive, open systems maintain balance through feedback.
A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing care for patients in their health care facility. Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?
Madeline Leininger
A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognizes the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of these four, which is most important?
Person
A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. The nurse manager's actions to change clinical practice are an example
Prescriptive theory
When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:
Data
A nurse is conducting quantitative research to examine the effects of following nursing protocols in the emergency department (ED) on patient outcomes. This is also known as what type of research?
Quasi-experimental
A nurse studies the culture of Native Alaskans to determine how their diet affects their overall state of health. Which method of qualitative research is the nurse using?
Ethnography
A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICOT format. What does the letter P represent
Explicit descriptions of the population of interest