Question

Question 1 (1 point) In the required reading article by Boswell, Cannon, and Miller entitled, "Students Perceptions of Holistic Nursing Care," what research methodology was used to determine nurses' perceptions of spirituality? A questionnaire survey was distributed to nursing students Reflective journal assignments called BLOGs were used. A quantitative study was performed A random assessment

Answer 1

QUESTION 1 ANSWER : C ( A quantitative study was performed)

RATIONALE: In the background, it had stated that to develop spirituality along with holistic care in nursing students ( doing an online course in RN-BSN program) over a 6 weeks, the students were asked to complete reflective journal assignments called BLOGs. From the BLOGs, the researcher generate 4 formal questions in a grid format and were asked to express their ( students) own thoughts and words and that allowed the researchers to identify trends in students viewpoints. This is a quantitative research study. Because this study mainly focus on the quantification of the data. A quantitaive research study allows the generalization of results from a sample to an entire population of interests and the measurement of the incidence of various views and opinions in a given sample.

QUESTION 2: ANSWER ( A, B, AND C)

RATIONALE: They had taken 3 nursing programs for the study from 125 students enrolled in a large West Texas university. They taken samples from 15 of the 19 traditional BSN students( those who enrolled in the undergraduate nursing program), 15 of the 35 RN-BSN students, and 15 of the 71 from graduate/nurse practitioner students. They had taken samples from the students not from the nursing faculty.  

QUESTION 3: ANSWER ( A and C)

RATIONALE: Undergraduate students identified faith is necessary but considered prayer, touch, faith and meditation as the key methods in giving spiritual holistic care whereas the graduate nursing students identified an awareness after the study and also had a higher order of thinking about spirituality and also had a more global perspective than others. Moreover, there seen a common confusion on spirituality and religion on all 3 groups.

QUESTION 4: Ofcourse yes, he is comparing himself with what he had done ( he stolen chocolates and candy from his mothers purse) and after effect of his behavior to the disease. He is self-evaluating himself to the act he had done.

QUESTION 5: ANSWER ( C)

This is the best response of a nurse to the child. He is self-aware of what he had done and he is comparing the disease to what he had done which further shows his afraid to the situation. Giving assurance that am ( nurse) here is the best response to reduce fear. Option A and D are inappropriate and add more fear to the child. Option B is inappropriate and it does not reduce the fear of the child.