Reasoning Skills Answers

Experimentation✔ ObservationHypothesisDrawing Conclusions means that a healthcare professional uses a variety of methods to obtain information during research, such as his or her five senses.

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or an explanation for an observation to test. ✔ ExperimentsObservationsHypothesesConclusions are designed to test this explanation and should yield results that prove or disprove it.

Data gathered can first be coded by topics and then placed into groups, themes, or classification schemes. In which ways can it be organized next? Select all that apply.

When scientists wrap up the experiment and work toward a solution, they are

To observeorganizeanalyze✔ communicate the results of an experiment, a healthcare professional can publish a report in a scientific and/or medical journal.

Which of these items are steps in the process of a root-cause analysis? Select all that apply.

Data collection✔ Root-cause analysis HypothesisDrawing conclusions helps answer why a problem occurred and identifies the origin of the problem so a healthcare professional can determine what happened and why it happened, thus reducing the probability of its occurring again.

What is the name of the process that looks for interrelated events to figure out the problem?

ExperimentationHypothesisDrawing Conclusions✔ Root-cause analysis is used in health care so a healthcare professional can fix the problem and not just the symptoms of the problem.

Which tasks does the healthcare professional need to complete after gathering data? Select all that apply.

A healthcare professional codes the data and then places the information into categories. What is this process called?

A root-cause analysis looks at healthcare-related critical incidents that could have been prevented. Select all the elements that a critical incident can include.

A person may develop an experimentan observation✔ a hypothesisa conclusion

When healthcare professionals turn raw data into charts, graphs, and tables, they are

Data are entered in a database so the information is accessible to be observedorganized✔ analyzedcommunicated or studied to aid in making judgments about a patient's care.

It is important to identify any shortcomings of the hypothesisobservation✔ data collectiondrawing conclusion, because the credibility of the research depends on its validity.

What is the name of the process that wraps up the experiment to work toward a solution and sometimes brings forth a new hypothesis and a need for additional study?

Any ✔ dataexperimentobservationconclusion gathered can first be coded by topics and then placed into groups, themes, or classification schemes.

A healthcare professional can write a report after she completes which processes? Select all that apply.