What Type of Study Design Would Be Most Appropriate for a Nurse

question 8

Multiple Choice

What type of study design would be most appropriate for a nurse researcher to use to assess whether premature infants who were visited more often by parents had shorter lengths of stay in the newborn intensive care unit?

• A) Cross-sectional survey
• B) Descriptive, comparative survey
• C) Predictive, statistical survey
• D) Causative, correlational

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