Question

1. Nurse Feelgood conducted a study to discover the lived experience of parents whose unborn children undergo surgery while in utero. She wanted to obtain in-depth descriptions of their experiences. Which design did she use?

            a. descriptive

            b. correlational

            c. quasi-experimental

            d. experimental

            e. phenomenological

            f. ethnography

            g. historical

            h. grounded theory

2. She obtained people to participate in the study by asking patients admitted to the hospital for the surgery. She was able to find 12 patients over a three-month period. What method of sample selection did she use?

            a. purposive

            b. snowball

            c. convenience

            d. quota

3. What were the members of her sample called?

            a. subjects

            b. participants

            c. target population

            d. cohort

4. How did she collect data?

            a. survey

            b. interview

            c. chart review

            d. all of the above

Please provide the correct answers and explanation along it as why that is correct and others are wrong

Answer 1

1.

Correct option:

g. historical

Explanation:

Historical Research Design is to done to collect, verify and synthesize evidence from the past to establish facts that defend or repute a hypothesis. Here the researcher wanted to obtain in-depth descriptions of the experiences. of parents whose unborn children undergo surgery while in utero. in order to to discover the lived experience of these parents.

2.

Correct option:

a. purposive

Explanation:
In Purposive Sampling, the researcher relies on his own judgement when choosing members of the population to participate in his study. Here the researcher obtained people to participate in the study by asking patients admitted to the hospital for the surgery.

3.

Correct option:

b. participants

Explanation:

Participants are the members who the researcher selects for his qualitative research: here interview

4.

Correct option:

d. all of the above

Explanation :

In this study, the researcher has applied all the 3 methods of data collection.(i) She has done the survey by asking patients admitted to the hospital for the surgery. (ii) She has interviewed them and (iii) She has done the medical record review to gather the required data.