A nurse is planning a change related to falls of postoperative patients after hospital discharge. Which phase of Kotter’s change model will occur first?

Which of the following behaviors is the nurse demonstrating when a new technique for giving medications to pediatric patients is reviewed, but the nurse continues to use the current medication administration method?

Which sampling method is a researcher using when a questionnaire is given to 50 pregnant females at the same OB-GYN office?

True or False? Randomization is one way researchers can control for extraneous variables.

Which of the following statements explains why nonprobability sampling carries more risk of selection bias than probability sampling?

True or False? When researchers and theorists contributing to the body of nursing knowledge fail to give credit to the work of those who came before them, the evolution of nursing knowledge becomes difficult to trace.

Which type of evidence is categorized as Level II evidence?

Which of the following actions would a qualitative researcher take when using coding to analyze data?

True or False? The purpose of dissemination is to communicate research findings to transition new knowledge to the point of care.

Which measure would least likely be determined from data collected during a cross-sectional study of obesity and type II diabetes?