The nurse researcher is evaluating whether holding pressure at an injection site after injecting the anticoagulant enoxaparin (Lovenox) will reduce bruising at the injection site. This study involves a prescriptive theory because it
a. Tests a specific nursing intervention.
b. Explains why bruising occurs.
c. Is broad in scope and complex.
d. Reflects a wide variety of nursing care situations.
ANS: A
Prescriptive theories guide nursing research to develop and test specific nursing interventions. Grand theories are broad in scope and complex, and require further specification through research. Descriptive theories do not direct specific nursing activities but help to explain patient assessment. The phenomena within middle-range theories tend to cross different nursing fields and reflect a wide variety of nursing care situations.
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