Identify the statement that describes a population.
1. Trauma clients hospitalized in an intensive care unit during January 2010
2. Four hundred nurses selected from a membership list of American Nurses' Association (ANA) members
3. Members of families of clients undergoing surgery, sitting in the waiting room of St. Francis Hospital
4. Members of a cult identified by other members of the same cult
Question 2
The nurse researcher conducting a grounded theory study has used purposeful sampling to select participants. What strategies may the nurse use in this study? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Search for participants who will disprove an emerging theory.
2. Try to obtain participants who are as similar to each other as possible.
3. Choose participants who can verify they will participate in this study, which will take several years to complete.
4. As new data are collected, compare them to the data that were collected previously.
5. Assign codes to pertinent identified data.
Three Population Pyramids
Population and Settlement
Population Patterns
Population Indicators
Age-Standardized Suicide Rates (per 100 000 Population), Both Sexes, 2016
Trimodal distribution of trauma deaths