A nurse studies the effects of teaching the MyPlate.gov materials to preschoolers by providing this education to preschoolers in a single day care center and then following their BMI
scores over a 5-year period and comparing their scores to those of children from another day care center. In this study, which element is represented by the O in the PICOS acronym?
a. BMI scores
b. Five-year follow-up
c. MyPlate.gov materials
d. Preschoolers
ANS: A
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A nurse helps a client work through an ethical dilemma by using an ethical decision-making framework. Which of the following statements describes a component of this process?
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Which critique of the program objective "to decrease the incidence of early childhood disease in Center County by providing immunization clinics in all schools between August and December of 2005" is accurate?
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