The Questions That Nurse Researchers Should Ask Before Beginning Their

question 10

Multiple Choice

The questions that nurse researchers should ask before beginning their study include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

• A)Why are we doing it this way?
• B)Where is the evidence to support this practice?
• C)How much will it cost to change?
• D)Can we as nurses lose our jobs if we implement this?
• E)What is a better way of doing this?

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Definitions:

Percentiles

Values below which a certain percentage of data in a data set fall.

Quartiles

The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, referred to as the first quartile, the second quartile (median), and third quartile, respectively. The quartiles can be used to divide a data set into four parts, with each part containing approximately 25% of the data.

Frequently Occurring

Refers to events or values that appear or happen often within a given dataset or timeframe.

Mode

A measure of location, defined as the value that occurs with greatest frequency.