In a Study Investigating Nurses' Attitudes Toward Taking Care of Respiratory

question 37

Multiple Choice

In a study investigating nurses' attitudes toward taking care of respiratory disease patients who had a long history of smoking, the researcher randomly selected a sample from a list of all the registered nurses from a randomly selected list of four states in the Southeast. If the researcher also selected the sample by randomly selecting nurses who smoke and those who do not, what sampling technique is being used?

• A) Cluster
• B) Quota
• C) Stratified random
• D) Systematic

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