Answers to Factual Questions

Answer Key A Cross Section of Nursing Research Journal Articles for Discussion and Evaluation

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1 Answers to Factual Questions Article 1: A Survey of Emotional Difficulties of Nurses Who Care for Oncology Patients

• How many questionnaires were excluded from the data analysis because of inappropriate or irrelevant answers?

Thirteen. (See lines 107–109.)

• What was the participants’ mean age?

35.0 yr. (See line 145.)

• What percentage of the nurses did not want to tell a patient that he or she was in the terminal phase?

95.5%. (See lines 162–164 and Table 3.)

• How many nurses expressed that they experienced no difficulties related to caring for terminally ill patients?

Ten. (See lines 196–197 and Table 4.)

• Besides years of experience, what other factor appeared unrelated to feelings and concerns of nurses who care for

terminally ill patients?Level of education. (See lines 270–273.)

• When caring for terminally ill patients, how many nurses expressed sadness at the young age of the patient?

Three. (See line 211 and Table 4.)

Article 2: Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurses’ Knowledge of Pulse Oximetry

• According to the literature review, were there previous studies in the literature that assessed PACU nurses’ knowledge of

pulse oximetry?No. (See lines 48–49.)

• Of the 32 items in the data collection instrument, how many were designed to assess knowledge of pulse oximetry?
• (See lines 69–73.)
• How was content validity established?

By having a panel of three critical care and PACU nurse educators review the questionnaire. (See lines 72–75.)

• What was the mean test score?

62 ± 9.09. (See lines 119–120.)

• What does a pulse oximeter measure?

The absorption of light by hemoglobin. (See lines 122–124.)

• What was the value of the Pearson correlation coefficient for the relationship between level of education and test scores?

r = .25. (See lines 187–188.) Article 3: Male and Female Nursing Applicants’ Attitudes and Expectations Towards Their Future Careers in Nursing

• What is the third hypothesis?

There will be no difference between males and females on their ideal position in 10 years’ time.(See lines 210–211.)

• The researchers used Likert scale with how many points?

Five. (See lines 220–221.)

• Of the 600 questionnaires that were distributed, how many were returned?
• (See lines 231–232.)
• What was the overall response rate?

45.5%. (See lines 234–235.)

• Was there a significant difference between males and females on socioeconomic background?
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