What effect can occur when subjects' behaviors are affected not by the treatment per se, but by their knowledge of participating in a study and the generalizability of the results is limited?
A) Experimenter
B) Hawthorne
C) Measurement
D) Novelty
B
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a. Bacteria b. Protozoa c. Virus d. Fungi
While being comforted in the Emergency Department, the 7-year-old sibling of a pediatric trauma victim blurts out to the nurse, "It's all my fault! When we were fighting yesterday, I told him I wished he was dead!" The nurse, realizing that
the child is experiencing magical thinking, should respond by: 1. Asking the child if he would like to sit down and drink some water. 2. Sitting the child down in an empty room with markers and paper so that he can draw a picture. 3. Calmly discussing the catheters, tubes, and equipment that the client requires, and explaining to the sibling why the client needs them. 4. Reassuring the child that it is normal to get angry and say things that we do not mean, but that we have no control over whether an accident happens.
Which client should be placed in isolation awaiting possible diagnosis of infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?
a. Client admitted from a nursing home with furuncles and folliculitis b. Client with a leg cut and other trauma from a motorcycle crash c. Client with a rash noticed after participat-ing in sporting events d. Client transferred from intensive care with an elevated white count
On the Celsius scale, the average body temperature is
A. 98.6º. B. 32º. C. 90.3º. D. 37º.