Where does nursing research gain its significance?
A) Use in practice setting
B) The context in which it is placed
C) Application of research to various models
D) Integration theory in education
B
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After documenting in the client's medical record, the nurse realizes it was the wrong medical record, and the charting was for another client. The nurse's priority action is to do which of the following?
1. Use a permanent marker to black out the entry so that it cannot be read. 2. Pull out the page and discard it, and reenter the information in the other client's record. 3. Draw an X through the entry and write "error, wrong chart," and sign and date. 4. Cover the entry with brush-on correction fluid.
A community health nurse has identified the target population and is determining an appropriate intervention. Which of the following would be most important for the nurse to do next?
A) Develop an intervention based on the nurse's previous experiences B) Review the literature for research on previously attempted interventions C) Access the National Center for Health Statistics website for data
A patient needs to lose weight. The nurse has assessed the patient to be in the contemplation stage of Prochaska's transtheoretical model of change. Which intervention by the nurse would be most appropriate?
a. Give the patient a referral to a dietician for teaching. b. Help the patient devise a log to record all food eaten. c. Provide information on the benefits of losing weight. d. Teach the patient small, simple steps for weight loss.
A nurse researcher working in a subacute orthopedic hospital floor
She notes that her elders with knee replacements sleep as many as 16 hours a day, waking only for physical therapy and meals, but she also notices that those with many visitors sleep fewer hours and seem to experience more pain. She wonders whether sleep in elders after knee replacement prevents pain, or whether elders select the coping strategy of sleeping more, in response to pain, and begins to attempt to identify the relationship between the two. A literature search reveals only three descriptive studies on this topic, one quantitative and two qualitative. What is "the relationship between elders' hours of sleep following knee replacement and its relationship with report of pain"? a. The research aim b. The research purpose c. The research problem d. The research topic