NUR5033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Time Point, Confidence Interval, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

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Quantitative: outline how quantitative research informs the development and evaluation of effective nursing care. Quantitative: discuss the concept of knowledge generation in professional nursing, identify and differentiate the key characteristics of various quantitative research designs (e. g. , randomised controlled trials, case-control, cohort, and cross-sectional studies) Rct make generalisations/inferences about populations by comparing to the sample using p values and confidence intervals. Cohort people are observed over time generally from originally healthy people to see who develops a condition or disease. Case-control retrospective comparison of risk factors between a group of people with a disease vs people who are healthy to determine causes. Cross-sectional observational survey at one time point. Case report looks at one or a few people. Case series people with same variable are examined. Quantitative: describe the role of inferential statistics in quantitative research (e. g. , what p values and confidence intervals are, use critiquing tools to review the quality of quantitative research designs/projects; and.

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1. The nurse working in a long-term care facility incorporates a focused assessment of
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are more likely to develop problems related to immune function than are middle-
aged people. The focused immune assessment includes a systemic approach based

on age-related changes in immunologic function. (Learning Objective 4)
a. What changes in the immune system in the older adult increase the incidence of
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b. Explain why older adults may have decreased inflammatory responses.
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The nurse educator focuses on special care needs of this patient population.
a. What is the rationale for assessing the pulse and respiratory rates for 1 full
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c. What nursing actions should be implemented to decrease the risk of infection in
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