For which of the following reasons will a nurse researcher use purposive sampling when obtaining participants for a qualitative study?

True or False? If a researcher is unable to randomly assign subjects to groups and must use a comparison group, the study design is considered nonexperimental.

A research assistant takes a survey of local high school students who participate in after-school sports about whether they have suffered a concussion in the last 90 days. Which method is being used to control extraneous variables?

Which of the following approaches would a nurse use to engage fellow nurses in the EBP model of providing patient care?

True or False? The trustworthiness of carefully performed research can still be called into question if the researcher does not have an auditable paper trail.

For which of the following reasons should stakeholders be identified when considering a change in practice?

When a researcher uses deduction to formulate a hypothesis and then forms a theory, why can it be said that a theory is never proven?

Virginia Henderson is credited with publishing the first definition of nursing as “a response to human functional needs”; however, this definition of nursing was really given by her coauthor, Bertha Harmer. Which reason best explains why this misattribution has occurred?

Which of the following is an example of benchmarking?

A new nurse asks a colleague why a patient dangles the legs over the side of the bed before assisting the patient to stand. Which type of evidence is being used when the response is, “It’s the way we always do it?”