Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing, 6th Edition questions and answers

A clinical nurse develops a better way to secure an intravenous access device in a patient and wants to see whether it would benefit other patients. Which of the following should be the first step in initiating a study? - ANSWERS-Review current literature related to the clinical problem. (Review of the literature is the first step in the orderly research process to determine what is already known about the problem. Recruiting patients occurs later in the process, after the nurse identifies the problem, researches the literature, and designs the study. Experimenting with new nursing procedures that have not been tested or approved is a risk to patients. Surveys are designed to obtain information from large study populations and would not be a first step in the research process.) The nurse researche