You decide to conduct an evaluation of a new informatics intervention for nurses in the ICU. You decide to use only qualitative methods. Which methods would be conducted? (Select all that apply.)
a. Observing nurses in the ICU at randomly selected time periods and recording their activities
b. Conducting semi-structured interviews and conducting thematic analysis
c. Collecting log reports for computer access, grouping sites accessed by nurses into similar categories, and seeing what the categories look like
d. Measuring the amount of time nurses spent on the computer
ANS: A, B, C
Random observations, semi-structured interviews, and categorization without counting are all examples of qualitative activities. Counting, measuring, and calibrating are quantitative activities.
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