A nurse researcher who is considering whether to use a qualitative research design should be aware that the focus of qualitative research is what?
a. Measuring one or more human characteristics
b. Controlling variables that interfere with the phenomenon being studied
c. Viewing human beings as composites of many body systems
d. Studying human experiences that occur within a person's natural setting
ANS: D
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A Measuring variables (one or more human characteristics) is not a focus of qualitative research.
B Control of variables is consistent with quantitative research design.
C Qualitative studies view human beings in a holistic way, not as the sum of parts.
D Human experience occurring in a person's natural setting is the focus of qualitative studies, although investigators may not always go to the setting where the person experienced the phenomenon.
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