The nurse is comparing the effectiveness of two smoking cessation programs, Program A and Program B, which were designed for adolescent clients who reported smoking for one year or longer.

Adolescents in three high schools in the American southeast were randomly assigned to one of the two study programs.

Significantly more adolescents stopped smoking after completing Program A than those who completed Program B, and the effect size was 0.8. Based on these findings, which action should the community health nurse take?

This sentence appears in which section of a research study report? "Distress after a natural disaster was high at 3 months and decreased monthly for a majority of the participants, although one-third of the survivors had higher distress at 13 months than at 3 months.

A nurse-manager wants to determine if clients discharged in warmer months from a postoperative orthopedic unit are more likely to adhere to a daily exercise regimen than those discharged during colder months. The nurse wants clients to have an equal chance of participating in the study, and plans to access the hospital's client database to identify those discharged from the orthopedic unit after joint replacement surgery during the past 12 months.
What type of sampling method should the researcher choose to best answer the study question?

A nurse-manager describes this process for IV insertions on a surgical unit: "We began requiring RNs to cleanse all peripheral insertion sites with both alcohol and an iodine-based cleanser before starting an IV because several multi-institutional studies found a statistically significant decrease in IV-related septicemia rates for surgical clients when both alcohol and iodine were used as cleansers as compared with those who had alcohol only cleansing prior to IV insertions." What statement best describes this unit's client care requirements?

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?

After reading a peer-reviewed research study in a nursing journal, a nurse wants to apply the study's findings about client teaching to a hospital unit setting.
What information is most important for the nurse to determine about the study?

Which key element should the nurse include in this evidence-based research question: Does the use of guided imagery improve pain relief when used in conjunction with oral analgesics?

Which finding represents a limitation to the study that the researcher should explain when parametric statistics were used to analyze the data?

The nurse is using an experimental design to investigate this research question: What is the effect of antibacterial sutures versus standard sutures on the incidence of wound infection in a randomized sample of children 5 to 10 years of age? Which children should be excluded from participating in this study? (Select all that apply.).

A researcher is assessing the reliability of a new instrument that was constructed to measure pain perception following cardiac catheterization.
The Cronbach's alpha obtained from a pilot study of the tool was 0.35. Which evaluation does the alpha value indicate?

A nurse 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?