As a Beginning Student in Nursing, What Is Essential to the Mastery

question 18

Multiple Choice

As a beginning student in nursing, what is essential to the mastery of technical skills, such as giving an injection?

• A) Read the steps of the procedure before clinical assignments.
• B) Even if you do not know how to give an injection, act as if you do.
• C) Practice giving injections in the learning laboratory until you feel comfortable.
• D) Tell your instructor that you don't think you can ever give an injection.

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Definitions:

Zero-tailed

Refers to a type of hypothesis test in statistics where the area of interest is on one extreme end of the distribution curve, indicating whether a sample mean is either significantly higher or lower than the population mean.

Random Assignment

The use of random selection to assign research participants to experimental groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.

Basic Experimental Design

The fundamental structure of an experiment that outlines how to systematically test a hypothesis by manipulating variables and controlling conditions.