Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing, 6th Edition

You are a nurse researcher interviewing senior oncology nurses, asking them to describe how they deal with the loss of a patient. The analysis of the interviews yields common themes describing the nurses' grief. This is an example of which type of study? - Qualitative study. (A qualitative study involves inductive reasoning to develop generalizations or theories from specific observations or interviews. Historical research establishes facts and relationships concerning past events. Correlational research is exploration of the interrelationships among variables of interest without any intervention by the researcher. An experimental study involves the use of tightly controlled subject groups, variables, and procedures to eliminate bias and ensure that findings can be generalized to similar groups of subjects.) An operating room nurse is talking with colleagues during a meeting. She asks, "I wonder if we would see fewer wound infections if we used chlorhexidine instead of povidone-iodine to clean the skin of our surgical patients? What does the P represent in this example of a PICOT question? - Surgical patients. (Surgical patients are the patient population of interest (P) in the PICOT (patient population, intervention, comparison, outcome, time) question. The interventio