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Statistics-for-Nursing-Research-A-Workbook-for-Evidence-Based-Practice-
exercise 9
1. What were the name and type of measurement method used to measure Caring Practices in the Roch, Dubois, and Clarke (2014) study?
2. The data collected with the scale identiï¬ed in Questions 1 were at what level of measurement? Provide a rationale for your answer.
3. What were the subscales included in the CNPISS used to measure RNs ’ perceptions of their Caring Practices? Do these subscales seem relevant? Document your answer.
4. Which subscale for Caring Practices had the lowest mean? What does this result indicate?
5. What were the dispersion results for the Relational Care subscale of the Caring Practices in Table 2 ? What do these results indicate?
6. Which subscale of Caring Practices has the lowest dispersion or variation of scores? Provide a rationale for your answer.
7. Which subscale of Caring Practices had the highest mean? What do these results indicate?
8. Was the most common arrhythmia in Question 7 related to LOS? Was this result statistically signiï¬cant? Provide a rationale for your answer.
9. What study variables were independently predictive of the 50 premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) per hour in this study?
10. In Table 1 , what race is the mode for this sample? Should these study ï¬ndings be generalized to American Indians with ACS? Provide a rationale for your answer.
