What are the four properties identified by Diers that comprise the holistic perspective of nursing research?
A) The focus of nursing research must be on a variance that makes a difference in improving client care.
B) Nursing research has the potential for contributing to the development of theory and the body of scientific nursing knowledge.
C) A research problem is a nursing research problem when nurses have access to and control over the phenomena being studied.
D) A nurse interested in research must have an inquisitive, curious, and questioning mind.
E) A nurse interested in research must be a graduate-level nurse to be able to adequately perform nursing research.
Ans: A, B, C, D
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Nursing is concerned with the whole person, which describes holistic nursing. When nurses conduct research, they tend to focus on the physiologic, psychological, sociologic, cultural, and economic factors that affect a person. They view the situation from a nursing perspective and ask questions about what they see.
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