The nurse researcher is evaluating whether holding pressure at an injection site after injecting the anticoagulant enoxaparin will reduce bruising at the injection site. This study involves a prescriptive theory
What is the nurse's rationale for involving a prescriptive theory?
a. It explains why bruising occurs.
b. It is broad in scope and complex.
c. It tests a specific nursing intervention.
d. It reflects a wide variety of nursing care situations.
ANS: C
Prescriptive theories detail nursing interventions for a specific phenomenon and the expected outcome of the care but it does not explain why. Grand theories are broad in scope and complex and focus on a wide variety of nursing care situations.
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