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Jkov05

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A nurse researcher is investigating the effectiveness of a new, school-based smoking prevention program. Which of the following should the nurse consider as a potential confounding historical factor?
 
  A) Students' existing attitudes toward tobacco use
  B) The relationship between tobacco use and alcohol use
  C) Students' respiratory health status at the commencement of the program
  D) Antismoking messages already present in the media

Question 2

A nurse has approached the unit educator with a recently-published article that calls into question the unit's practices around routine changing of peripheral intravenous sites.
 
  How should the findings of this article be best translated into practice?
  A) Unit practices should be amended to reflect the findings of the study.
  B) The nurses on the unit should combine the study results with their own expertise to create a new guide for practice.
  C) The nurses should search for further evidence before changing unit practices.
  D) The nurses should conduct a trial similar to that in the published study.



josephsuarez

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C



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