A nurse researcher is interested in testing the relationship…
A nurse researcher is interested in testing the relationship between pain and blood pressure in the emergency department. She decides to recruit patients who present to the emergency room where she works during the shifts she is scheduled to work. Since both pain and blood pressure are collected routinely in the emergency department anyway, the nurse collects patient data for clinical purposes and enters it in her research documentation as well. She asks the patients to rate their pain on the 0-10 numeric pain scale, and takes three different blood pressure measurements on each patient to ensure that she has high quality data. Will this study produce generalizable results?