A nurse researcher wants to know how well adolescent mothers can learn to manage their children's asthma and develops an initial study to explore and define perceptions of asthma among this population. Which best describes this initial study?
a. Correlational research
b. Descriptive research
c. Phenomenological research
d. Outcomes research
ANS: B
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As a direct result of Clifford Beers' work and book, A Mind That Found Itself, the Committee for Mental Hygiene was formed in 1909 with a focus on prevention of mental illness and:
a. Early detection of symptoms of mental illness b. Education of caregivers c. Current treatment options d. Removing the stigma attached to mental illness
Phenomenology is to nonexperimental research what grounded theory is to experimental research
A) True B) False
A patient taking spironolactone is demonstrating ECG changes and complaining of muscle weakness. The nurse realizes this patient is exhibiting signs of:
1. Hyperkalemia. 2. Hypokalemia. 3. Hypercalcemia. 4. Hyopcalcemia.
Which of the following is true of the NANDA label? (Select all that apply.)
1. Must contain three components 2. Describes the health problem for which nursing therapy is given 3. Helps define medical diagnoses for nursing 4. Promotes a taxonomy of nursing