Which of the following is a true statement regarding nursing research?
a. Descriptive and correlational research methods are most successful in addressing the research questions nurses typically have.
b. Nurses do not typically attempt to conduct experimental research because it is beyond their level of expertise.
c. Nurses have successfully used a variety of designs in research studies because there are many types of questions to be answered.
d. The most common type of research used by nurse researchers is ethnographic research because it studies the lived experience of their patients.
ANS: C
The reason that nurses do not conduct experimental research any more often than they do has to do with the populations they are typically dealing with, as it is often quite difficult to obtain a large enough sample that is randomly selected.
Descriptive and correlational research are among the most common types, but are not necessarily the most successful.
The reason that nurses do not conduct experimental research any more often than they do has to do with the populations they are typically dealing with, not their level of expertise.
Ethnographic research, while a common type of research used, does not study the lived experiences of the participants being studied. Phenomenological research studies the lived experiences of the participants.
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