The nurse is preparing a report on the number of births by three service providers at the facility (certified nurse–midwives, family practitioners, and obstetricians). This would be an example of:

Question

1. Inferential statistics.
2. Descriptive statistics.
3. Evidence-based practice is the use of conclusions of research to improve nursing care.
4. Secondary use of data.

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Inferential statistics allow the investigator to draw conclusions from data to either support or refute causation.
Rationale 2: Descriptive statistics concisely describe phenomena such as births by providers.
Rationale 3: Evidence-based practice.
Rationale 4: Secondary use of data is analyzing data a different way than the original data analysis was undertaken or looking at different variables from a data set.