A group of psychiatric nurses revise the inpatient psychiatric-nursing admission assessment tool. To establish interrater reliability, the nurses MOST likely would:
a. have each nurse interview the same client in random sequence
b. have each nurse interview several different clients
c. have two nurses complete the assessment tool simultaneously on the same client
d. have each nurse's completed assessment tools reviewed by another nurse
C
To establish interrater reliability, the nurses most likely would have two nurses complete the assessment tool simultaneously on the same client. If both assessments identified that same data, there would be interrater reliability.
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The nurse anticipates that the provider will recommend: a. antibiotics. b. reducing the dose of mecasermin. c. discontinuing the mecasermin. d. tonsillectomy.