Staff on a burns-and-plastics unit have implemented a new, evidence-based algorithm around pain control prior to debridement and dressing changes that was based on the Health Outcomes Institute's Outcomes Management Model.
Analysis of the outcomes following the implementation of the new practice reveals that patient reports of pain during the procedures actually increased slightly compared with preexisting practices. The caregivers should prioritize which of the following?
A) Revisiting phase one of the process
B) Disseminating the results of the process
C) Continuing with data collection over a longer period
D) Reexamining the evidence and chosen practices
Question 2
A nurse is seeking to understand the processes of adjustment and coping that parents go through in the year after giving birth to a child with a neural tube defect. Which of the following qualitative traditions is most likely to inform the nurse?
A) Ethnography
B) Phenomenology
C) Grounded theory
D) Hermeneutics
Conduction of pain impulses.
Likelihood of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Based on BMI
Algorithm for assessing a patient at risk for self-directed violence.
A functional renal unit.
Evidence of natural selection: Canis lupus familiaris
Orientation and structure of a nephron, the functional unit of the kidney.