A study investigating how nurses in the health care system looked on medication errors was conducted using the ethnographic approach. Why was this approach particularly appropriate for this study?
A) It asked the nurses what it was like for them when they made a medication error.
B) It explored the theoretical basis of medication administration and medication errors.
C) It improved understanding of how nurses within the hospital define or redefine medication errors.
D) Looking at the history of medication errors helps shed light on current practice.

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The ethnographic approach looks at phenomena within a certain culture, in this case the hospital, and seeks to describe how that culture deals with the subject of interest.
Finding out what making a medication error is like for each individual nurse is a phenomenological approach. The ethnographic approach looks at phenomena within a certain culture, in this case the hospital, and seeks to describe how that culture deals with the subject of interest.
Grounded theory is described here, but it is also a questionable statement. The ethnographic approach looks at phenomena within a certain culture, in this case the hospital, and seeks to describe how that culture deals with the subject of interest.
This description indicates a historical approach rather than an ethnographic one. The ethnographic approach looks at phenomena within a certain culture, in this case the hospital, and seeks to describe how that culture deals with the subject of interest.

A Study Investigating How Nurses in the Health Care System