Quantitative Research Critique
Quantitative Research Critique
Cathleen Atkins
Grand Canyon University
NRS 433V
Linda Permoda
March 24, 2013
Quantitative Research Critique
Title of Article
The title of the article being critiqued is “The impact of workload on hygiene compliance in nursing”, which was published in the British Journal of Nursing (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Authors
There are three authors for this quantitative research study. Martin Knoll is the HTW of Saarland, Clinical Nursing Research and Evaluation, Saarbruecken, Germany. Christine Lautenschlaeger, Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Medical Informatics, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany is the second author. And last, Marianne Borneff-Lipp is head of the Institute for Hygiene, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Introduction to Study
Quantitative research is used when trying to determine the meaning of life experiences and situations. This is done by using a systematic and subjective approach to study. The goal of quantitative research is to determine the relationship between one thing, an independent variable, and another, the dependent variable (Burns & Grove, 2011). The purpose of the study was to examine whether external factors such as ward capacity and level of nursing intensity had any effect on compliance of hand hygiene guidelines by the nursing staff (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Protection of Human Participants
During the six participant observation trials nurses were observed, without their knowledge, to see if they complied with hand hygiene disinfection. When a nurse was observed to have neglected hand hygiene an interview was immediately conducted to understand why previous training on hand hygiene guidelines were ignored. The observations and interviews were conducted with permission from hospital management and the
Cathleen Atkins
Grand Canyon University
NRS 433V
Linda Permoda
March 24, 2013
Quantitative Research Critique
Title of Article
The title of the article being critiqued is “The impact of workload on hygiene compliance in nursing”, which was published in the British Journal of Nursing (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Authors
There are three authors for this quantitative research study. Martin Knoll is the HTW of Saarland, Clinical Nursing Research and Evaluation, Saarbruecken, Germany. Christine Lautenschlaeger, Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Medical Informatics, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany is the second author. And last, Marianne Borneff-Lipp is head of the Institute for Hygiene, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Introduction to Study
Quantitative research is used when trying to determine the meaning of life experiences and situations. This is done by using a systematic and subjective approach to study. The goal of quantitative research is to determine the relationship between one thing, an independent variable, and another, the dependent variable (Burns & Grove, 2011). The purpose of the study was to examine whether external factors such as ward capacity and level of nursing intensity had any effect on compliance of hand hygiene guidelines by the nursing staff (Knoll, Lautenschlaeger, & Borneff-Lipp, 2010).
Protection of Human Participants
During the six participant observation trials nurses were observed, without their knowledge, to see if they complied with hand hygiene disinfection. When a nurse was observed to have neglected hand hygiene an interview was immediately conducted to understand why previous training on hand hygiene guidelines were ignored. The observations and interviews were conducted with permission from hospital management and the
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