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Learning Activity 04, Step 1, for Part 4

Learning Activity 04: Step 1

Complete by end of the 1st week of Part 04:

Select one of the following learning activities to do. Use the forum for Learning Activities for Part 4 in WebCT for Nurs 400A or Nurs 400B to post what you do in the activity.

1. Develop a topic guide for studying barriers to health-care utilization among the urban poor.
 

2. Suggest several open-ended and several closed-ended questions relating to each of the following variables. Compare the quality and amount of information that could be obtained with each.

  • Women's attitudes toward nurse-midwives
  • Factors influencing a decision to obtain a vasectomy
  • Perceived adequacy of community health care services
  • Student nurses' first experiences with the death of a patient
  • Factors influencing nurses' administration of pain-relieving narcotics to patients
 
3. Suggest the types of groups that might be used to validate measures of the following concepts, using the known-groups technique:
  • Self-esteem
  • Empathy
  • Capacity for self-care
  • Emotional dependence
  • Depression
  • Hopelessness
  • Health-promoting practices
  • Health motivation
  • Body image
  • Coping capacity

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