TEST BANK. For Primary Care The Art and Science of Advanced Practice. Nursing – an Interprofessional Approach (6th e.) Sixth Edition. by Debera J. Dunphy | Complete Solution Guide A+.

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Chapter 1. Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of Caring
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1. A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of hand
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washing on the incidence of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care
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settings. An article presented findings at a level of significance of <0.01. This
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A) The control group and the experimental group were more than 99% similar.
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B) The findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable to chance.
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C) The effects of the intervention were nearly zero.
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D) The clinical significance of the findings was less than 1:100.
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Feedback: The level of significance is the level at which the researcher believes that the
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studyresults most likely represent a no chance event. A level of significance of <0.01 indicates
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thatthere is less than 1% probability that the result is due to chance.
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2. A nurse has expressed skepticism to a colleague about the value of nursing research,
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claiming that nursing research has little relevance to practice. How can the nurses colleague
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bestdefend the importance of nursing research?
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