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TEST-BANK FOR PRIMARY CARE ART AND SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING-AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 6TH EDITIONDUNPHY TEST-BANK FOR PRIMARY CARE ART AND SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICENURSINGAN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 6TH EDITION- DUNPHY LATEST TEST BANK FOR PRIMARY CARE ART AND SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING – AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 5TH EDITION DUNPHY Chapter 1. Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of Caring 1. A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of hand washing on the incidence of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care settings. An article presented findings at a level of significance of 0.01. This indicates that A) The control group and the experimental group were more than 99% similar. B) The findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable to chance. C) The effects of the intervention were nearly zero. D) The clinical significance of the findings was less than 1:100. Ans: B Feedback: The level of significance is the level at which the researcher believes that the study results most likely represent a no chance event. A level of significance of 0.01 indicates that there is less than 1% probability that the result is due to chance. 2. A nurse has expressed skepticism to a colleague about the value of nursing research, claiming that nursing research has little relevance to practice. How can the nurses colleague best defend the importance of nursing research? A) The existence of nursing research means that nurses are now able to access federal grant money, something that didnt use to be the case.