Overview
Statistics is very prevalent in nursing, whether it comes from doing descriptive statistical analysis, running clinical trials, computing mortality rates, etc. By reading journal or research articles in the field of nursing, you will be able to see the wide breadth of statistical techniques used to assess data collected, ultimately leading to improved and more efficient methodologies.
Instructions
For this discussion, you are to read this article Download this article.
Discussion Prompts
Respond to the following prompts in your initial post:
- Write a one paragraph summary of the article.
- What is the research question being asked/addressed in this article?
- What was the conclusion made?
- If you had the opportunity, what questions would you ask the researcher? This can be clarification questions, or questions to enhance your understanding of the topic.