Chapter 08: Nursing Research in Canada

Research in nursing developed gradually and paralleled the evolution of which of the following types of nursing education?
a. Specialist nursing education
b. Graduate nursing education
c. Undergraduate nursing education
d. Post-diploma nursing education

B

Which Canadian university offered the first funded doctoral program in nursing?
McGill University
a. University of Toronto
b. University of Alberta
c. University of British Columbia

B

Which one of the following was considered instrumental in the transition from low research funding to high research funding in schools of nursing?
a. Self-regulation
b. Specialization
c. Philosophy-based curriculums
d. Qualified doctoral-prepared faculty

D

In which year was the first national conference on nursing research in Canada held?
a. 1961
b. 1966
c. 1971
d. 1976

C

In which year was the first Centre for Nursing Research in Canada established?
a. 1961
b. 1966
c. 1971
d. 1976

C

Which following reason is cited as being responsible for the research funding boom that occurred in the 1990s?
a. Acceptance of critical social theory
b. The ease with which grants could be obtained
c. The economic and political climate of the time
d. Isolation of researchers into sole discipline teams

C

What were the earliest strategic health research priorities of the National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP)?
a. Aging and AIDS
b. Prenatal care and early beginnings
c. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes
d. Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease

A

There are many challenges when engaging patients in the research process, including which of the following?
a. Patients have a narrow perspective on the problems.
b. Patient engagement is the same as participation.
c. Patients are never comfortable with research.
d. Patient engagement is different from participation.

D

Primary areas for research funding include which of the following?
a. Infrastructure, training, and salary support
b. Photocopying, travel, and training
c. Training, conferences, and publications
d. Salary support, travel, and photocopying

A

Funding for nursing research in Canada has always been a challenge, but one of the turning points was when the Nursing Care Partnership program was implemented (2003–2009). An evaluation of that program showed which of the following?
a. Enhanced engagement of older persons in research
b. Increased capacity for research among nurses
c. Improved public awareness of the need for nursing research
d. Improved health outcomes from research

B

What does the term “minimum data set” (MDS) refer to?
a. Triage at entry into the health care system
b. Computerized electronic patient charts
c. National electronic data sharing and storing
d. Standardized data extracted from hospital patient records

D

One way that academics can quantify the impact of a research study is through bibliometrics, defined as which of the following?
a. Measuring the number of books used in the study
b. Calculating the impact of a published journal article
c. Examining the library resources on the topic
d. Calculating the number of articles used in the study

D

Measuring the impact of research using tweets, Instagram posts, or Wikipedia citations is known as which of the following?
a. Bibliometrics
b. Metrics
c. Medmetrics
d. Altmetrics

D

Bibliometrics and altmetrics are both indicators of which of the following?
a. Knowledge transfer
b. Critical thinking
c. Nursing research
d. Knowledge gap

D

The potential benefits of patient engagement in research include which of the following activities? (Select all that apply.)
a. Refine research questions to reflect patient needs
b. Ask broad, encompassing research questions
c. Study mortality as an outcome measure
d. Improved recruitment and participant engagement
e. Involves all members of the health care team
f. Develop culturally appropriate interventions
g. Acceptable methods of data collection

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