Key aspects of the research process are that it is:
A) intuitive, descriptive, and authoritative
B) experiential, comprehensive, and applicable
C) systematic, planned, and organized
D) narrow, focused, and generalizable
C
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A nurse is providing care for a patient whose recent colostomy has contributed to a nursing diagnosis of Disturbed Body Image Related to Colostomy. What intervention best addresses this diagnosis?
A) Encourage the patient to conduct online research into colostomies. B) Engage the patient in the care of the ostomy to the extent that the patient is willing. C) Emphasize the fact that the colostomy was needed to alleviate a much more serious health problem. D) Emphasize the fact that the colostomy is temporary measure and is not permanent.
How does quantitative research contribute to evidence-based practice? (Select all that apply.)
a. It provides facts that nurses can add to their knowledge base. This makes practice more objective and quantifiable. b. It provides scientific support for policies already in place. More evidence makes an existent policy more defensible. c. It provides evidence opposing policies already in place. Evidence in opposition to policies may result in new policies. d. It allows the nurse to understand the personal experience of illness and the meaning the client attaches to it. This engenders compassion. e. It contributes evidence that will make nursing practice almost completely evidence-based, eliminating different styles of nursing practice.
A nurse is assessing a pregnant woman with gestational hypertension. Which of the following would lead the nurse to suspect that the client has developed severe preeclampsia?
A) Urine protein 300 mg/24 hours B) Blood pressure 150/96 mm Hg C) Mild facial edema D) Hyperreflexia
The patient has hypertension and asks the nurse how this can lead to heart failure. What is the best response by the nurse?
1. "Hypertension causes resistance in your blood vessels, or afterload; your heart works harder, and weakens." 2. "Hypertension limits the ability of your heart to stretch before emptying, or afterload; your heart works harder, and weakens." 3. "Hypertension causes resistance in your aorta, or afterload; your heart works harder and weakens." 4. "Hypertension limits the amount of blood entering your left ventricle, or afterload; your heart works harder, and weakens."