A potential research study focuses on identifying topics essential for inclusion in patients' discharge instructions. Such a study might provide insight into which question?
1. How can hospitalizations be reduced?
2. When should the patient be discharged?
3. In what ways can patients better manage their own recovery?
4. How might the nurse improve care provided in the hospital?
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Rationale 1: As a secondary impact, there may be information on ways to reduce hospitalization; however, that would not be the primary focus.
Rationale 2: When the patient should be discharged would not be a focus of the research study.
Rationale 3: A study looking at the discharge instructions needed by a patient could provide insight into ways patients might better manage their own recovery.
Rationale 4: How the nurse could improve care provided in the hospital would not be a focus of the research study.
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