Qualitative and quantitative approaches have complementary strengths and weaknesses
A) True
B) False
A
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When planning the preoperative teaching plan for Mr. Johnson, a cardiac surgery patient, the nurse may include
A) a visit with a patient who is successfully recovering from cardiac surgery. B) only information that the patient or family asks questions about. C) only basic information due to the stress of the surgery. D) a tour of the surgery suite showing him the cardiopulmonary bypass machine.
A nurse in the Canadian healthcare system is concerned because a client has been denied a surgical procedure that the nurse believes is essential to the client's recovery
Who should the nurse expect will have the most power to reverse this decision? A) Nurse practitioner B) Physicians C) Private insurance company D) Health administrator
A researcher conducts a quasi-experimental study to determine whether there is improved weight gain among premature infants who are fed according to cue-based protocols. The researcher trained neonatal intensive care nurses to apply cue-based feeding to orally fed infants and notes a statistical difference in weight gain between infants fed according to cue-based protocols and those fed according to standard protocols. Which might be a threat to internal validity in this study?
a. The concept of cue-based feeding is not well defined.
b. The study sample is homogeneous.
c. Some infants developed gastroenteritis.
d. Not all nurses received cue-based protocol education.
Which statement, made by a staff nurse, reflects the most fundamental reason that nursing research findings are not implemented in nursing practice?
1. I'm not sure that these findings are valid and safe to implement. 2. We don't have any protocols to implement research in practice. 3. I don't have the authority to change my practice. 4. I don't think too highly of researchers and research.