Case study: A nurse is monitoring how many cases of UTIs are on the floor. The hospital is concerned that patients are not having the proper foley care. Therefore, the nurse is performing a series of assessments in the hospital to understand foley care.
1. The nurse was told that there is a statistically significant difference in the number of bacteria on the urinary sample when using soap and water compared to a foley peri cleanse product used by the hospital. What questions should the nurse state about this finding?
2. The nurse recorded the foley care on the unit and after running statistical analysis there was a difference in the average number of urinary tract infections using soap and water method over using the peri cleanse method. What is the null hypothesis and if the nurses assessment was correct would you accept or reject the null hypothesis.
3. What would be the implication of making a type 1 error?
