1. The nurse wants to know how similar the 7-minute screen (7MS) is to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in accurately screening for dementia. Can you distinguish the correct clinical question category for this type of question?
a.Prognosis
b.Diagnostic
c.Harm/etiology
d.Prevention

2.If you had access to the following databases for your research, which would you choose to review clinical trials on effective smoking cessation therapies?
a.The Cochrane Library
b.HealthStar
c.Medline
d.InfoPOEMS

3.The process of understanding and applying researched clinical evidence to nursing practice requires the nurse to become information literate. Which action by the nurse best describes the use of information literacy?
a.Identifies a specific clinical problem, accesses appropriate resources, and assesses the relevancy of use of information for that particular patient‘s problem
b.Identifies a particular patient problem and immediately notifies the physician and family for treatment
c.Identifies the lack of research skills and consults a librarian for a workshop on conducting research studies
d.Identifies the lack of research skills and consults a scientific researcher to teach basic computer information

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