Data from four different research studies conducted at academic medical centers in each region of the United States demonstrated to a statistically significant level that axillary temperatures of infants were as reliable as rectal temperatures
when both were measured on the same infant. Which statement describes an implication that the most recent report of the four studies would appropriately include? Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Nurses should encourage health care providers to rely on axillary rather than rectal measurement of infants' temperatures.
2. Additional studies should be conducted to replicate the findings.
3. Nurse educators should teach undergraduate nursing students that axillary temperatures are as reliable as rectal temperatures for measuring the temperature of an infant.
4. Additional studies should be conducted to determine whether the same finding applies to comatose adults.
5. Additional studies should be conducted to determine whether the same finding applies to animals.
1,3,4
Rationale 1: This is a correct implication because the same result has been demonstrated through four different studies at academic medical centers that are geographically distinct. Research is a mission of such institutions, and the populations would be varied.
Rationale 2: In general, with four statistically significant findings from geographically disparate academic medical centers demonstrating the reliability of axillary temperatures as compared with rectal temperatures, a researcher likely would not recommend another study with the same population.
Rationale 3: This is a correct implication because the same result has been demonstrated through four different studies at academic medical centers that are geographically distinct. Research is a mission of such institutions, and the populations would be varied.
Rationale 4: This is a correct implication because of the clinical significance in terms of ease of measurement, and it would be important to demonstrate the same finding with a different population.
Rationale 5: This would not be a correct implication because it is not clinically significant to nursing.
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