The protection of human subjects lies at the heart of any research project. Part of this protection entails the need to obtain informed consent. A female nurse wants to do a qualitative study investigating what it means for males to live with diabetes mellitus and the resultant impotence. Qualitative research usually involves interviewing the human…

1.       Codes of ethics in human research, developed partly as a result of the atrocities of the mid-20th century, continue to be refined. The dictionary definitions of moral and ethics suggest that the meanings of these terms can and will change, and the evolving codes support this idea. Yet codes of ethics are based on…

1.       You are interested in researching smoking cessation and the literature discussing pharmacologic versus behavioral strategies. You have been told that the appropriate MeSH heading is “smoking cessation,” but you want to use the MeSH database in PubMed to verify this term. You also know that you only want articles that meet the following criteria:…

  1.       A researcher initially planned to use covert data collection techniques (observing a class of teenagers via a one-way mirror) for a research project designed to determine the aggressive behaviors of boys and girls. Neither the parents nor the students were to be informed about the research project because no intervention was planned. Which…

1.       Select an article on a research topic for your practice area and complete the critique worksheet in Table 14-1. After completing the critique of the article, give the article a “level of evidence” rating and a “strength of evidence” score. Would you change your practice based on the information in this article? 2.       You…

A medical–surgical unit at your hospital wants to change from using a team nursing model to a primary care nursing model. The unit director asks the group to develop a logic model tool to show the problem, goal, resources, activities, and short-term goals involved in making this type of change. You are one of the…

You are the pediatric nurse caring for Missy, an 8-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with epilepsy. Missy will be hospitalized for at least 3 more days. Missy has been prescribed carbamazepine. You have been assigned to develop the initial teaching plan for Missy and her parents. How will you best prepare to answer these…

There have been various programs created attempting to curb the use of drugs worldwide. Please discuss the various programs in our country and at least two other countries mentioned in the chapter.  What have been the results and what have been the unforeseen problems of some of these programs.  Do you have any suggestions for…

As the modern database grows bigger and bigger, many organizations are moving away from a relational store and looking towards NoSQL design. There is a desperate need to consider storage and file structure as part of physical design principles. If you were implementing a new database system for an ERP or CRM that required a…

a. From what you learned in class, what relationship between unemployment and inflation does the Phillips Curve usually describe? In that context, what does the author of the article mean when they claim that the Phillips Curve “has become strangely flat”? b. In the article, the author emphasizes the role that wages play in the…