Qualitative researchers often begin with a sample where potential participants come forward and identify themselves. What type of sample is being used?
A) Convenience
B) Snowball
C) Purposive
D) Purposeful
A
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The nurse is functioning in the primary role to care for a 12-year-old boy with metastatic cancer in the liver. Which of the following activities is typical of advocacy?
A) Instructing parents about proper home care B) Educating the family about choices they have C) Telling parents about clinical guidelines D) Teaching the family about types of cancers
A nurse is helping a potential home health client acquire the supplies that will be needed once the client is discharged from acute care. When considering these supplies, the nurse should remember that:
A) Medicare will cover supplies, but only with a physician's written order. B) Most clients in this age group live on a fixed income, and supplies used should be as economical as possible. C) Clients have to be responsible for their own supplies. D) Between insurance supplements and Medicare, the elderly client shouldn't have any difficulty with coverage.
Which statement will the nurse use to explain why serum lactate is elevated in a patient with sepsis? It is caused by:
1. Increased systemic inflammation 2. The endogenous by-products of bacterial contamination 3. Anaerobic cellular metabolism 4. Greatly accelerated coagulation
Which study exemplifies qualitative research?
a. A study that evaluates appetite among residents of a long-term care facility and correlates this data with whether or not residents are rooming together with their spouses. b. A study that defines levels of appetite based on residents' descriptions of hunger in a long-term care facility. c. A study that observes the interactions of spouses during mealtimes in a long-term care facility. d. A study that observes the effectiveness of spousal encouragement to eat on the residents' quality of appetite in a long-term care facility.