A nurse is designing a study to determine the different perceptions of illness and hospitalization within a group of Hispanic patients. This nurse is most likely conducting which type of qualitative research?
1. Ethnography
2. Phenomenology
3. Grounded theory
4. Experimental
Ethnography
Rationale: Ethnography focuses on the culture of a group of people, with an effort to understand the worldview of those under study. Phenomenology describes the meaning of a lived experience through the perspective of the participant. Grounded theory refers to the idea that conclusion of a qualitative study should be grounded in the data, that is, based on direct and careful observations of everyday life within the group. An experimental research design is a type of quantitative research and is used to determine the effects of an intervention. Experimental research most often occurs in a laboratory setting, and is used to determine the effects of an intervention or of the manipulation of an independent variable.
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a. Constipation related to immobility b. Risk for infection related to IV lines c. Activity intolerance related to an imbalance of oxygen and demand d. Self-care deficit
Which of the following describes the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
1. use of diagnostic reasoning 2. Nursing diagnoses focus on human responses to health problems. 3. Medical diagnoses focus on human responses to health problems. 4. Nursing diagnoses focus on assessment, identification, and labeling of the disease state.