Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Skills (Prepare for Practice)

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Parahoo, K. (2014). Nursing Research – Principles, Process and Issues. 3 rd Ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Experiences, attitudes, feelings, improvement in condition, mobility, responsiveness to treatment, care, quality of life or daily living. Deldar, K., Froutan, R. and Ebadi, A. (2018) Challenges faced by nurses in using pain assessment scale in patients unable to communicate: a qualitative study. BioMed Central [online]. 17(11), pp.1-8. [Accessed 19/02/2019]. Available at: https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-018-0281-3#Abs1 When critiquing qualitative research, it is important to: analyze the researcher’s adherence to qualitative standards of investigation. avoid comparison of the study with other published studies to prevent bias. emphasize study strengths over weaknesses. How do you critique a qualitative paper? Search each individual string on its own in each of your selecteddatabases. Record the number of search results for each string and database. International Association for the Study of Pain (2012) Desirable Characteristics of National Pain Strategies [online]. [Accessed 19/02/2019]. Available at: https://www.iasp-pain.org/Advocacy/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1473Finally, readers should consider implications of the research for nursing and midwifery. While these implications can relate to the practice, education, research and management of nursing and midwifery, not all research reports detail the implications for all aspects of the professions. Indeed, the word allowance in many health journals will only allow for detailed discussion of a few implications. How qualitative research assists practitioners If you need assistance with writing your nursing essay, our professional nursing essay writing service is here to help! Find out more Readers should still be able to determine the validity and reliability within quantitative research. Once the above terms have been understood then it should be possible to determine if the research can be generalised, that is transferable to other situations/locations. Additionally, nursing journals have different expectations regarding how much should be included regarding the validity and reliability of research. Were participants, staff and study personnel ‘blind’ to the study group? With an RCT study participants are allocated randomly to the study or control group (sometimes there are more than two groups). When the research participants do not know whether they are in the study or the control group - that is they do not know if they are taking the actual medication or a placebo - the results are more convincing since psychological factors have been ruled out. Creswell, J.W., Clark, P VL (2011) Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research 2nd Ed. Scotland: Sage Publications

This study was conducted using content analysis method in line with Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The researchers performed an in-depth direct analysis of experiences of intensive care nurses. The aim of this study is to show that current nursing practice in the area of pain assessment in non-communicative patients can be improved. The findings from this study show that there are various factors which could affect the use of pain assessment and management in patients unable to communicate. Due to these patients not being able to self-report, their pain cannot be properly assessed and treated. Farahani et al. (2008) stated that inadequacy of training courses for pain measurement was one of the significant barriers to the use of non-verbal pain assessment scales. The findings are presented as codes, subcategories, and categories using an inductive approach. You should complete the final version of this table at the end of the search once you are completely happy with it and are confident that you have an appropriate number of relevant results.The critiquing frameworks enables readers to make a judgement regarding the soundness of the research. It is possible to critique a piece of research without using a critiquing framework, but the frameworks are very useful for those who are not used to critiquing research. What do academic journals expect? There should be sufficient detail provided in the methods section for you to replicate the study (should you want to). To enable you to do this, the following sections are normally included: Identify and evaluate the general character. Identify and evaluate the general character of the framework. 2 Compare and analyze the main concepts. Compare and analyze the main concepts and the framework. 3 Compare the framework. 4 Determine if the results or solutions. It is clearly not possible to cover every aspect of a study in a journal report. Readers should therefore be careful before boldly stating that a researcher did not consider a certain aspect, since it may have been discussed at length in the original (unpublished) research report. By reading the author guidelines of professional journals readers are better able to determine what authors can include (and therefore by implication exclude), and then relate this to the critiquing framework outlined above. Each week Nursing Times publishes a guided learning article with reflection points to help you with your CPD. After reading the article you should be able to:

Careful examination of qualitative research gives practitioners a better understanding of how a group of people view or understand a particular situation. It can therefore enable individual practitioners to enhance their practice and contribute to evidence-based practice. Conclusion A quantitative research design aims to provide numerical, statistical information that can show patterns or comparable variations(Holland and Rees, 2010; Ellis, 2013). Parahoo (2014)describes survey as; a research design which aims to gather descriptive, correlational data usually from large populations and by questionnaires, interviews and to a lesser extent observation. According toLoBiondo-Wood and Haber (2014)surveys have their advantages and disadvantages.The advantage of a survey is a lot of information can be gathered from a large population in an economical manner, also survey research can be surprisingly accurate. A disadvantage of carrying out a survey is the breadth rather than the depth of the information is emphasized.

What are the drawbacks of qualitative research?

Question you want to ask of the literature: How effective is the management and assessment of pain in the hospital setting for adults in the intensive care unit setting. Grove, S.K., Gray, J.R. and Burns, N (2015) Understanding Nursing Research: Building and Evidence Based Practice 6th ed. Scotland: Elsevier Purposive sampling was used to select participants. The participants in this study included 20 nurses working in intensive care units. Subject selection was conducted with maximum variation in personal factors (age, education level, duration of work experience, and organizational role).