A Qualitative Research Critique The purpose of this paper is to critique the research article‚ “Gulper. Et. Al’s Preventing belt restraint use in newly admitted residents in nursing homes: A quasi-experimental study. The incident I am going to discuss in this paper is of Mr. P.‚ an 85-year-old man‚ admitted to this facility about a year ago. His history includes coronary heart disease‚ cataract‚ dementia‚ hypertension‚ macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s. Mr P. scored 28 of 30 on the Folstein
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This study focuses on the issue of nursing staffing and its effects on the outcomes of the patients. To begin with‚ the tem nursing staffing will be defined and followed by a discussion of nursing staffing in relation to the nurses themselves. Nursing staffing levels and their effects on the patient outcomes will also be discussed with regards to morbidity and mortality besides other indicators of patient outcomes‚ the impact of nursing staffing levels to quality of care as well as an overview of
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Introduction As a nurse one is expected to provide excellent care that is evidence based. The ability to provide evidenced based care requires the ability to read peer-reviewed primary research reports and initiate recommendations in the clinical area. In the current paper the nurse will analyze 10 research report on nursing turnover. An annotated bibliography of 10 articles related to the problem will be discussed. This is by no means an exhaustive list. The research reports provide credible
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Running Head: Research Critique Communication between Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Nurses about Managing Pain in the Acute Hospital Setting: A Qualitative Study Daisy Hariharan Grand Canyon University NRS-433V 04/11/2013 Introduction This is a qualitative critic of the research article “Communication between patients with chronic kidney disease and nurses about managing pain in the acute hospital setting” written by Elizabeth Manias and Allison Williams. Problem statement
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Running head: Qualitative Research Critique Qualitative Research Critique: Retrospective Perception of Difficult Communication Wene Mawalla Brock University The article “Patient Real time and 12 month retrospective perception of difficult communication in the cancer diagnostic period” is written by Throne‚ S.‚ Armstrong‚ E.‚ Harris‚ S.R.‚ Hislop‚ G.‚ Kim-Sing‚ C.‚ Oglov‚ J.L.‚ Oliffe‚ J.L.‚ & Stajduhar‚ K.L. through a naturalist setting. This article will attempt to give a systematic
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Critique a Research Study Critique a Research Study The nursing research study I chose at the beginning of the semester was Impact of health literacy and patient trust on glycemic control in an urban USA population. The research article begins with a description of Diabetes‚ its consequences of the disease process‚ complications‚ economic cost‚ and the public health crisis that is foreseen over the next few decades. Research has shown that improvement of glycosylated hemoglobin concentration
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Research Critique The aim of this assignment is to critical analyse and evaluate a primary piece of evidence within the author’s clinical practice. Prior to analysing the literature the author will give a brief description of the term clean intermittent self-catheterisation‚ identify various conditions where this procedure may be undertaken and the assessment process which is necessary for patients before they can carry out this procedure. Due to word limitations the term Clean intermittent self-catheterisation
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Abstract This paper will review and critique Hess’s quantitative study of vascular access improvement in pediatric population by using a vein viewing device. The author utilized a prospective‚ non-randomized study at a tertiary care center. The sample of the study included 150 procedures in the control group and 91 procedures in the experimental group from the ages 0 to 17 years. The primary aim of the study was to increase the first-attempt success rate of venipuncture and decrease procedure
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“Communication Strategies for Nurses Interacting with Deaf Patients” by Christine Chong-hee Lieu et.al‚ explains how communicating with deaf patients can be challenging for nurses. The language barrier often makes explaining a deaf patients medical situation difficult for the nurse‚ which leads to little or no understanding by the patient of what is happening. Providers need to understand‚ while paper and pen may be ok for some hearing impaired patients‚ it is not always an option for others. “Despite
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Research Critique - Part 1 Introduction Burns and Grove (2011)‚ define qualitative research is a standardized‚ personal way used to define life experiences and grant them meaning. A qualitative study must establish a dilemma or research problem‚ does not contain a hypotheses‚ and the research questions‚ which evolve as the study progresses are usually very broad. As a result‚ the person conducting the study looks for data to form impressions; this type of research cannot be measured. This qualitative
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