The nurse is reviewing a research study in a peer-reviewed journal and reads this statement: "The Type I error rate was deliberately set at 0.10, rather than the traditional 0.05, because we were willing to take a 10% chance of inadvertently including those clients who would have been able to do a successful return demonstration of the procedure within the group of clients who were identified as being unable to demonstrate the procedure correctly." Which is the correct interpretation of this statement?

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, which should the nurse do first?

The findings of a study indicated that hospitalizations of children with asthma decreased by 25% for those children who participated in a nurse-coordinated care program as compared with those who received standard care. Data analysis indicated that there was a 1% chance that these findings could have occurred by chance alone. How should the nurse report this finding?

The nurse leader on the risk management committee notices an alarming increase in medication errors on a quarterly report. Which is the first step in initiating a quality improvement project?

A nurse who works for a hospice wishes to research the concept of sadness. Which type of research is most useful in providing the nurse with an understanding of how this emotion impacts the client as a whole?

Which type of study design is likely to be most useful in addressing this research question?

What does P <.05 mean?

A researcher is interested in studying the effectiveness of a computerized learning program for children with Type 1 diabetes that addresses self-injection methods. The computerized learning program incorporates completion of an interactive learning module, followed by completion of a 5-item quiz. The nurse-researcher plans to compare learning of those who implemented the computerized learning program with those who were exposed to the non-computerized teaching method currently used at the clinic. Which research question best reflects the study's variables?

nurse case manager at a children's hospital is working with the infectious disease department to determine if admissions of children with gastrointestinal parasitic illnesses increased in the month following a major flood in the area. Which research approach would be best for the case manager to use in this situation?

A charge nurse on a postoperative unit wants to do a literature search about the effectiveness of rocking-chair motion on adult clients who have a postoperative ileus. Which clinical question should the nurse use to search for the most pertinent articles?

The nurse is reviewing a research study in a peer-reviewed journal and reads this statement: "The Type I error rate was deliberately set at 0.10, rather than the traditional 0.05, because we were willing to take a 10% chance of inadvertently including those clients who would have been able to do a successful return demonstration of the procedure within the group of clients who were identified as being unable to demonstrate the procedure correctly." Which is the correct interpretation of this statement?