Nurs5366 exam 1 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Question 19 Hospital nurses are observed in order to determine exactly how long nurses swab IV ports with alcohol. Because they are being observed, they “scrub the hub” longer than they ordinarily would have. This is an example of what threat to validity of the the study design relevant to quantitative research? Answers a. Hawthorne effect b. Control c. Bias d. Inaccurate operationalization of variables Subjects’ knowledge of a study could influence their behaviour and ...