Anurse is designing a study to evaluate the effectiveness of preoperative teaching to clients undergoing total knee replacement surgery. To best identify previous research studies that investigated client teaching effectiveness, what should the nurse do first?

The nurse is conducting a qualitative research study, designed to answer the question, "What is the experience of stress reduction techniques on adolescents with diabetes?" Which data should the nurse include in this study?

A nurse-researcher is dissatisfied with the results of a data analysis and recalculates the statistical computations applied to the data for the purpose of obtaining results that are more supportive of the researcher's personal belief system. Which term best describes the outcome of this procedure?

In which part of the research report should this statement be placed?

Organizational atributes associated with a professional nursing practice environment have been defined within magnet hospital studies and have been found to be highly valued by U.S. nurses across a variety of hospital settings and geographic locations."

A nurse is conducting a study of client attitudes and feelings about registering for outpatient day surgery via the Internet. Interviews of clients using a questionnaire will be conducted and the responses will be analyzed. The nurse plans to use a codebook in conducting this research study using a quantitative design. Which statement accurately describes the purpose of the codebook for this study?

The school nurse who is preparing an anti-smoking campaign for students at a junior high school discovers a research article, published in a peer-reviewed nursing journal, which examined the recent nursing literature to uncover associations between attitudinal factors and smoking among youth populations. These authors concluded that certain attitudinal factors can help determine effective interventions that reduce smoking among youth. Which action is most important for the nurse to take using this research?

A nurse is reviewing a research article that compared Hemoglobin (Hgb) A1c findings of randomly selected 20 to 30-year-old clients with diabetes who participated in a specified 3-month strenuous exercise program with 20 to 30-year-old clients who did not participate in the exercise program. Which research design describes this study?

What is this statement? "Cultural self-efficacy is one's confidence about one's ability to work appropriately with people from another culture and is assessed by the Cultural Self-Efficacy Scale."

The nurse plans to conduct an experimental study to investigate this research question: "What is the difference in blood pressure between a randomized sample of children who received mindfulness meditation instruction and a similar sample of children who did not receive the instruction?" Prior to conducting this study, which action is most important for the nurse to take?

Which characteristic of a research statement is missing in this statement?

Which research question could be used for a qualitative study?