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Primary Care: Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing - An Interprofessional Approach 5th edition Dunphy Test Bank

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1. A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of handwashing onthe incidence of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care settings. An article present... ed findings at a level of significance of <0.01. This indicatesthat A) the control group and the experimental group were more than 99%similar. B) the findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable tochance. C) the effects of the intervention were nearlyzero. D) the clinical significance of the findings was less than1:100. 2. A nurse has read a qualitative research study in order to understand the lived experience ofparents who have a neonatal loss. Which of the following questions should the nurse prioritize when appraising the results of thisstudy? A) How well did the authors capture the personal experiences of theseparents? B) How well did the authors control for confounding variables that may have affected thefindings? C) Did the authors use statistical measures that were appropriate to the phenomenon inquestion? D) Were the instruments that the researchers used statistically valid andreliable? 3. A nurse has expressed skepticism to a colleague about the value of nursing research, claimingthat nursing research has little relevance to practice. How can the nurses colleague best defend the importance of nursingresearch? [Show More]

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