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What is bias sampling?  systematic over-or-under-represenation of an attribute vis-a-vis the population What type of sampling occurs in which referrals for potential participants are made by those already in the sample?  snowball The nurse researcher knows it is important to make a distinction between target and accessible populations. What is the target population?  aggregate of cases about which the researcher would like to generalize p. 249 The nurse researcher wants to us...

What is the nursing process?  a five-step clinical decision-making approach that consists of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The purpose of the nursing process is to assist nurses in identifying and treating patients' health-related concerns and help patients attain agreed-upon health outcomes •Fundamental to how nurses practice • •An iterative process Cognitive framework through which one I am so identify, diagnose, and treat actual and ...

The frequency and relative frequency presented as a percentage should both be reported when describing interval level data  False What type of graphic display would be the best for a variable measured at the ordinal data?  Histogram The operational definition of a variable  Specifies how a variable should be measured The epidemiological range is  the minimum and maximum values When reporting the mean for a variable, what measure of spread should be reported?  The stan...

. A nurse working in a new position in policy development has been asked to identify agencies in Canada that have undertaken an effort to reduce wait times, reduce duplication of tests, and support coordination of care. Which of the following agencies would you expect to be on the list? (Select all that apply.) 1. Canada eHealth 2. Canadian Institute for Health Information 3. Canada Health Infoway 4. Canadian Institutes for Health Research 5. Consumer Association of Canada  Answer...

What is racism?  cultural and structural system that places value and gives opportunities to an individual based on their race What is expected from nurses in terms of racism?  That we maintain an attitude of professionalism and challenge any overt discrimination that we see/experience in the workplace Why is racism in health care hard to manage?  We are often not aware that it is happening What is culture?  Shared patterns of learned values and behaviours that are transmi...

Which statement is true about nursing diagnosis? A. It identifies problems that can only be treated by nurses B. It is a clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes C. It is the identification of a disease condition on the basis of a specific evaluation of physical signs D. It identifies outcomes that are the same for all patients with that condition  B Nursing outcomes or goals of nursing need to be w...

NSG 522 The incubation period for an infectious disease is occurs during which stage of disease? Stage of clinical disease. Stage of recovery. Stage of preclinical disease. Stage of susceptibility.  Stage of preclinical disease Primary prevention efforts are focused on which stage of disease?A. Stage of clinical disease B. Stage of recovery C. Stage of preclinical disease D. Stage of susceptibility E. A and C  Stage of susceptibility 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | Th...

The core science of public health. "The study of the distribution and determinants of healthrelated states or events in specified populations and the application of this knowledge to the control of health problem"  Epidemiology Epidemiology studies the _____ of public health problems  Nature, extent, and cause The origins of epidemiology as a science from the study of ______ of communicable diseases  Epidemics Systematic surveillance, observation, experimentation.... use ...

Frequencies  Just the count or number of observations in each category. Abbreviated as 'n' or 'f' Relative Frequency  The number of times a particular observation occurs divided by the total number of observations. Frequency Distribution  A summary of the numerical counts of the values or categories of a measurement. Cumulative Frequency  The number of observations with a value less than the maximum value of the variable interval. Cumulative Relative Frequency...

inferential statistics  allows us to go beyond the data to generalize the larger population There are two broad areas of statistical inference: - Estimation of the population parameters o Used to estimate population parameters such as means and proportions - Hypothesis testing o A relationship between variables o A difference between groups population parameters  o Are described using Population Parameters (P for P) Population parameters are reported using Greek letters (e.g. μ ...