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stevenposner

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Which research question will indicate to the nurse researcher that an ethnographic approach was used in the research study?
 
  a. In what ways do Puerto Rican women learn about health information?
  b. What is the quality of life for persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
  c. What was Nightingale's involvement in sanitary reforms during the 1860s?
  d. How do individuals who have heart disease experience anger?

Question 2

The nurse researcher has opted to use grounded theory as the research method. Compared with phenomenologic research, which data-gathering technique is unique to grounded theory research?
 
  a. Face-to-face interviews
  b. Tape-recorded interviews
  c. Participant-written responses to written questions
  d. Skilled observation of individuals in a social setting



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

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A Ethnographic studies address questions that concern how cultural knowledge, norms, values, and other contextual variables influence a person's health experience.
B Quality of life is a day-to-day experience, more consistent with phenomenology than ethnography.
C An examination of Nightingale would be a historical study.
D The experience of anger is consistent with a phenomenologic approach.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D

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A Phenomenologists can use face-to-face interviews.
B Phenomenologists can use tape-recorded interviews.
C Phenomenologists can use participant-written responses.
D Grounded theorists observe participants in their natural settings. This observation practice is referred to as fieldwork. Phenomenologists do not use fieldwork.



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