The nurse researcher must write a causal research hypothesis for which study?

1. A study on the lived experience of having a myocardial infarction
2. A study investigating the use of triangulation in mixed method nursing research
3. A study that investigates the design of grading tools used by clinical nursing faculty
4. A study that investigates the development of nosocomial urinary tract infection in catheterized and noncatheterized patients


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Rationale 1: This topic is better suited for qualitative research in which a causal hypothesis is not used.
Rationale 2: Methodological studies are nonexperimental, so a causal hypothesis is not being tested.
Rationale 3: Descriptive studies are nonexperimental, so a causal hypothesis is not being tested.
Rationale 4: Causal hypotheses are appropriate for studies that examine relationships between variables, in this case, being or not being catheterized.
Global Rationale:

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