A patient told her nurse that she heard that wearing a cooling cap could prevent hair loss resulting from chemotherapy infusions. The nurse decided to search the literature to see if there was evidence supporting the practice among patients receiving chemotherapy infusions. What type of EBP question is this an example of?

The primary role of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to:

Which of the following are NOT included when making an Evidence-based practice decision?

Which of the following is NOT an example of pre-appraised evidence?

A researcher plans to study the relationship between subjects’ baseline cortisol level and their stress level during public speaking. She is concerned that there is a difference in baseline cortisol levels of vegetarians as compared to subjects who eat meat. To reduce the possible effect of diet, she decides not to enroll vegetarians in her study. This is an example of which technique used to control for potential extraneous variables?

A researcher is studying whether there is a decrease in central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) rates among medical ICU patients when hubs are scrubbed with chlorhexidine instead of alcohol. In, this example, what is the independent variable?

Which of the following is an example of a nondirectional research hypothesis?

A researcher is studying the effect of diabetes education on patients’ HbA1c. To get a baseline value, the researcher conducts a retrospective review and collects all HbA1cs in the patients’ medical records during the past 2 years. This type of data collection is called:

QUESTION 2 FRACTION AND DECIMALS  

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