Study Guide to Accompany Potter: Basic Nursing Notes

1. You are a nurse re- searcher interviewing se- nior oncology nurses, asking them to describe how they deal with the loss of a patient. The analysis of the interviews yields common themes describing the nurses' grief. This is an example of which type of study? 2. An operating room nurse is talking with colleagues during a meeting. She asks, "I wonder if we would see fewer wound infections if we used chlorhexidine instead of povidone-iodine to clean the skin of our surgical patients? What d...

1. You are a nurse re- searcher interviewing se- nior oncology nurses, asking them to describe how they deal with the loss of a patient. The analysis of the interviews yields common themes describing the nurses' grief. This is an example of which type of study? 2. An operating room nurse is talking with colleagues during a meeting. She asks, "I wonder if we would see fewer wound infections if we used chlorhexidine instead of povidone-iodine to clean the skin of our surgical patients? What d...