Primary Care , Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing - An Interprofessional Approach

• A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of handwashing on theincidence of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care settings. An article presented findings at a level of significance of 0.01. This indicates that • the control group and the experimental group were more than 99% similar. • the findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable to chance. • the effects of the intervention were nearly zero. • the clinical significance of the findings was less than 1:100. ANSWER: B Feedback: The level of significance is the level at which the researcher believes that the study resultsmost likely represent a nonchance event. A level of significance of 0.01 indicates that there is less than 1% probability that the result is due to chance. • A nurse has read a qualitative research study in order to understand the lived experience of parentswho have a neonatal loss. Which of the following questions should the nurse prioritize when appraising the results of this study? • How well did the authors capture the personal experiences of these parents? • How well did the authors control for confounding variables that may have affected the findings?