The nurse researcher is evaluating clinical questions. Which is a qualitative question?
a. What factors affect clients' responses to postoperative pain?
b. Do wound vacuum systems improve sur-gical wound healing time?
c. What are the effects of hourly rounding on client fall rates?
d. Do chlorhexidine swabs decrease central line site infections?
A
A qualitative question focuses on the participant's interpretations of or responses to an expe-rience. Understanding factors that influence a client's response to a situation would be a qualita-tive evaluation. The other questions focus on quantitative or numeric indicators, instead of on the meaning or interpretation of an event. These questions would be quantitative questions.
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