Which type of clinical application of qualitative research would ...

[vinney12]

Which type of clinical application of qualitative research would help a nurse describe the trajectory of an illness?
 
  a. Insight or empathy
  b. Assessment of status or progress
  c. Anticipatory guidance
  d. Coaching

Question 2

A description of how adolescent girls recovering from addiction to prescription narcotics might or might not move forward to create a new life is an example of which of Kearney's category of qualitative findings?
 
  a. Restricted by a priori frameworks
  b. Descriptive categories
  c. Shared pathway or meaning
  d. Depiction of experiential variation

[Li Jun]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

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A The mode insight or empathy would help a nurse to understand patients better and to offer more sensitive support.
B The mode of clinical application assessment of status or progress enables a nurse to describe the trajectory of an illness.
C The mode anticipatory guidance enables a nurse to share qualitative findings with the patient.
D The mode coaching enables a nurse to advise patients of steps they can take to reduce distress or improve adjustment to an illness according to the evidence in the study.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D

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A This is not an example of restricted by a priori frameworks, which describes a discovery being aborted because the researcher has obscured the findings with an existing theory.
B This is not an example of descriptive categories, which describes a phenomenon vividly portrayed from a new perspective.
C This is not an example of shared pathway or meaning, which describes a synthesis of a shared experience or process or integration of concepts that provides a complex picture of a phenomenon.
D This is an example of the category depiction of experiential variation, which describes the main essence of an experience but also shows how the experience varies, depending on the individual or context.