The community health nurse is participating in Delphi technique research. The Delphi technique will
A) allow all individuals to present their ideas before the entire group.
B) promote individual cooperation with the group's decisions.
C) collect independently expressed thoughts through the use of respondent questionnaires.
D) decrease selective perception.
Ans: C
The Delphi technique has respondents independently express their thoughts through the questionnaire and return it. The nominal group technique allows all individuals to present their ideas before the entire group. The nominal group technique involves the entire group, decreases selective perception, and promotes individual cooperation with the group's decisions because people believe that they have been involved in the decision-making process.
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