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?”

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

Which type of evidence is categorized as Level II evidence?