The nurse researcher is studying caring behaviors in a group of 125 nursing students admitted to a BSN program in a University in the southern United States

The nurse plans to collect information from each student prior to starting the nursing program, at the end of the first clinical year, and again at the end of the program. What term(s) could be used to describe this study? Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Historical.
2. Longitudinal.
3. Cross-sectional.
4. Cohort.
5. Random sampling.


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Rationale 1: Historical studies look back at what has taken place.
Rationale 2: Longitudinal studies follow subjects over a period of time in the future.
Rationale 3: Cross-sectional studies examine subjects at one point in time.
Rationale 4: A cohort study is a special type of longitudinal study that focuses on one subgroup of the population.
Rationale 5: This is not a random sample.When a random sample is selected, the researcher hopes that the variables of interest in the population will be present in the sample in approximately the same proportions as would be found in the total population.

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