Fundamentals of Nursing CONTENT REVIEW PLUS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Fundamentals of Nursing CONTENT REVIEW PLUS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Fundamentals of Nursing: Content Review Plus Practice
Questions provides beginning nursing students with needto-know information as well as questions to practice their
ability to apply the information in a simulated clinical
situation. This textbook is designed to:
• Be required by a nursing program as the sole fundamentals nursing textbook for a fundamentals of nursing course to be used in conjunction with reliable
primary Internet sources for nursing information.
• Be required or recommended by a nursing program to
be used in conjunction with a traditional fundamentals
nursing textbook.
• Be used by beginning nursing students who want
to focus on essential information contained in a
fundamentals-of-nursing course.
• Be used by nursing students to learn how to be more
successful when answering National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)–type multiple-choice and
alternate-item format nursing questions early in their
nursing education.
• Be used by nursing students preparing for the
NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-PN examination to revie

Basic Steps in Planning  Nursing Research

Basic Steps in Planning Nursing Research

Understand the purpose of the research design.
• Describe characteristics of research designs.
• Discuss issues of control in research designs.
• Review the relationship between the level of the study and the
research design.
• Describe the essential features of an exploratory descriptive design.
• Describe the essential features of a descriptive survey design.
• Describe the essential features of an experimental design.
• Discuss the various means to control unwanted influences in