2. Here is a brief summary of the sampling plan of a fictitious quantitative

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2. Here is a brief summary of the sampling plan of a fictitious quantitative

study. Read the summary and then respond to the questions that follow. (10 MARKS)

A researcher studied the attitudes of recent nursing school graduates (registered nurses) toward evidence-based nursing practice. She was interested in exploring whether the nurses' attitudes varied in relation to the type of employment or further training they had pursued. She obtained lists of graduates from three schools of nursing—one school in each of three different metropolitan areas (Boston, St. Louis, and Seattle). She then conducted structured telephone interviews with 50 graduates of each school. Her method was to find (using alumni information provided by the schools, local telephone directories, and Internet resources) the telephone numbers for as many names on her lists as she could and to make calls until she had completed 50 telephone interviews with graduates from each of the three schools. Thus, her final survey sample consisted of 150 recently graduated RNs.

2.1-Which of the following would be a characteristic used to define researcher 's eligibility criteria?
· Age
· Place of residence at the time of the survey
· Nursing credentials
· Type of current employment
· Type of advanced training
· Gender
· Nursing school attended
· Year of graduation from nursing school

2.2- Did the researcher draw her sample from a target population or an accessible population? 2.3- What was the researcher's sampling frame?
2.4- Did the researcher use probability or nonprobability sampling? 2.5- What specific type of sampling was used?
2.6-Was a power analysis performed?

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