Executive Summary Melissa Ballard Grand Canyon University: NRS-451V July 1‚ 2015 Purpose of Program Last year the hospital treated 400 (X) patients in the hospital that were positive for the flu. Of the people who tested positive for the flu 200(Y) patients had no insurance and had not received the flu vaccine. The hospital is still trying to collect $10‚000 (Z) from those hospital bills. The purpose of this program is to allow uninsured members of the community to receive the
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background. Retrieved on April 22‚ 2015 from. http://www.nursingworld.org/NurseReinvestmentAct.aspx Raquel‚ M.‚ & Sean‚ C. (2011). Staffing with nurse understaffing and high patient churn linked to heightened inpatient mortality risk in a single site study. Evidence based nursing‚ Vol. 14‚ p122-123. Retrieved on April 22‚ 2015 from. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebn.2011.100052 Sigma Theta Tau International (1199-2015). Honor Society of Nursing. Facts on the nursing shortage in North America. Retrieved on
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Associate Level Material Appendix C Case Study In October of 2003‚ investigators‚ alerted by a neighbor who saw a child searching through trash cans‚ found four undernourished males in the Jackson home. Three other children residing in the home appeared to be physically normal. At this time‚ all seven children were removed from the Jackson home and placed under the care of the state child welfare agency. Their mother and father‚ Vanessa and Raymond Jackson‚ faced charges of aggravated assault
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necessary to critique a qualitative study? Powers (2011a) states‚ “All scientific evidence is important to clinical decision making‚ and all evidence must be critically appraised to determine its contribution to that decision making” (p. 135). A qualitative study attempts to describe an experience from the participant’s perspective. Additionally‚ to enhance understanding‚ the objective of a qualitative study is to increase awareness of human experiences. Performing a critical appraisal of qualitative research
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07-Bickman-45636:07-Bickman-45636 7/28/2008 6:13 PM Page 214 CHAPTER 7 Designing a Qualitative Study Joseph A. Maxwell T raditionally‚ works on research design (most of which focus on quantitative research) have understood “design” in one of two ways. Some take designs to be fixed‚ standard arrangements of research conditions and methods that have their own coherence and logic‚ as possible answers to the question‚ “What research design are you using?” (e.g.‚ Campbell & Stanley
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Qualitative research is "the investigation of phenomena‚ typically in an in-depth and holistic fashion‚ through the collection of rich narrative materials using a flexible research design" (Polit‚ Beck‚ and Hungler‚ 2001‚ p 469). Qualitative researchers focus on the descriptions and deeper meaning associated with the data collected. Another way to define qualitative research is to describe it as a type of research that involves interpreting non-numerical data. The next few pages will discuss the
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critically evaluates 5 peer reviewed articles that adopted qualitative case study research methodology. The objective of the essay is to evaluate the selected published articles to consider the methodological influence on the study design‚ choice of method‚ data analysis and interpretation‚ as well as observe for the onto-epistemological grounding of the research. Essay Structure The essay begins with an introduction/background of case study research as a methodology within the health discipline‚ in
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Changing a Qualitative research into a quantitative study Name: College: Summary of the Article Fry and her colleagues undertook a qualitative research to develop a moral distress model in military nursing. Using the same problem statement‚ literature analysis and background information‚ this paper aims at converting the qualitative study carried out by Fry and her colleagues into a quantitative study. The study entails setting different research questions and collecting data that
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Qualitative research is a generic term for investigative methodologies described as ethnographic‚ naturalistic‚ anthropological‚ field‚ or participant observer research. It emphasizes the importance of looking at variables in the natural setting in which they are found. Interaction between variables is important. Detailed data is gathered through open ended questions. The interviewer is an integral part of the investigation (Jacob 1988). This differs from quantitative research which attempts
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Research Design This is an empirical study using a qualitative research design because a qualitative design is usually used to understand processes‚ or events‚ in the setting of social and cultural situation instead of coming up with numerical results (“Qualitative Field Research‚” n.d.). Also‚ the data collected under this design are not dependent on numbers (Saunders‚ Lewis & Thornhill‚ 2009). A qualitative design is chosen because the aim of the study is to have a deep understanding of the
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