Miguel Hernandez, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Memorial Hospital, is exploring the usage of nursing overtime hours in the emergency department during the last operating year (January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2018).Miguel intends to survey the emergency department nurses regarding their perception of overtime needs.For this survey the set of all emergency department nurses who worked at Memorial Hospital during the last operating year is _________.
A)a parameter
B)a sample
C)the population
D)a statistic
E)the frame

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The set of all emergency department nurses who worked at Memorial Hospital during the last operating year is the population, as it includes every individual that could be potentially surveyed or studied for the given research question.