A Study Of A Case Study

In this paper, the definition and description of what a case study is, what are some reasons for using a case study, what are some disadvantages and advantages of this approach? Also included in this paper I will talk about what are some of the ways a researcher can acquire information that can is used for a case study. A case study can be defined as a descriptive account of the behavior, history, and other relevant factors concerning a particular individual (Cozby, Bates, 2012).

A case study is “a method of analysis and a specific research design for examining a problem” (University of Southern California, 2010). It can be used to analyze a person, place, event, or other subjects in order to help discover mitigating issues, misconceptions, failures, trends, or recommendations (USC, 2010). Case studies will be used to gain a better understanding of situations and topics to help others make better policies, procedures, and decisions (USC, 2010).

An in-depth study of a particular situation rather than a sweeping statistical survey. Case study research is a method that was used to narrow down a very broad field of research into one easily researchable topic.

Case studies are one of the first types of research to be used in the qualitative methodology and repeating the study several times will lead to the increased reliability of the study (Starman, 2013). This methodology is appropriate because it will allow for data collection results to be generalized based on the theoretical propositions and not the population (Harrison et al. 2017).

For this case study I am going to discuss 3 health promotions, the 3 health promotions I will be discussing are; obesity, exercise and smoking. All 3 of these health promotions are from a patient whose care I was involved with for a number of weeks. I have gained full consent from the patient and their relatives. In relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (Legislation.gov.uk, 1988)

This section of the article shall address the approach used in the case study, providing explanations of the preferred research method, sample details, variables under examination, data collection

Strengths and Weaknesses Just like any other research method, both case study and generic methods have strengths and weaknesses. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of both a case study and a generic methods helps to determine which is most appropriate for the study (Baxter, 2008). A case study method driven by real-life experiences, provides a holistic explanation of the findings, abundance of data, flexible, and is an excellent alternative to other qualitative methods that would be considered an unethical approach to the study (Baxter, 2008). A generic method offers flexibility and able to borrow strategies from other qualitative methods (Kahlke, 2014). Case study and generic methods are both appropriate for well-established theories

Case study is a qualitative research which emphasis on the investigation and explain the details of one or more cases and analyses of one or more cases. A case may be an individual (student, teacher, organization and situation or institution).

Patient belongings: went missing. The patient's name is Tamika Jackson, she was in ER room 513. She was transported from the ER to OR. I don't think we transporter her, we normally don't take ER patients to the OR. I checked with both Juan and Andrew, they both didn't have her. I also checked in the system I couldn't find the patient. I sent out of message asking everyone to look out for her belongings.

Tyler, Texas is the Rose Capital of the United States. The city is known for the beautiful roses and East Texas charm. Many people today are choosing Tyler as a place of retirement or raise a family. There are many people that work hard every day to make Tyler a great place to live, work and feel safe. One of those people is Edward Moore, Tyler City Councilman for District 3. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Moore and discussing the duties of a City Councilman and as a citizen to keep Tyler beautiful.

Background information about this client in this case study is as followers. The patient is a 30 year old female who has been experiencing signs and symptoms of weakness, numbness, visual disturbances and mood swings over for couple months now. Since client symptoms were becoming a repetition, so CT test was done and the result confirmed a demyelination of the white matter of brain and spinal cord, helping the doctor to conclude this is a factor to why the client is experiences this neurological deficits. Client doctor prescribed her Prednisone which has a positive affect helping to confirm the client diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Researchers have concluded that Multiple Sclerosis occurs whereby the patient’s own immune system attacks the protein that is found in the myelin sheath and this result in the demyelination of the myelin sheath. So when there is lost of myelin in one’s body, blocking of the action potential propagation occurs and this lead to the patient to experience the sign and symptoms, the client physical weakness especially balance and coordination in her lower extremities played a role in affecting the client.

A case study is a specific instance that is frequently designed to illustrate a more general principle (Nisbet and Watt, 1984). Hitchock and Hughes (1995) further suggest that the case study approach is particularly valuable when the researcher has little control over evens. Case studies strives to portray ‘what it like’ to be a particular situation, to catch up reality and ‘thick description’ (Geertz, 1973) of participants’ lives experiences of, thoughts about and feelings for a situation. They involve looking at a case or phenomenon in its real-life context, usually employing many types of data (Robson, 2002). It is important in case studies for events and situations to be allowed to speak for themselves, rather than to be largely interpreted, evaluated or judged by the researcher. In this respect the case study is akin to the television documentary. Case studies can make theoretical statements, but, like other forms of research and human sciences, these must be supported by the evidence presented.

In reading the first article Coach Knight: The Will to Win, I found the article found Coach Knight to be very offensive and mean to his players. Coach Knight did not display good leadership skills. According to the article, Coach Knight’s drive and passion for excellence was not always received as well as his record of wins and losses Snook, Per low, Delacey, 2005).

Case study does not necessarily rely on a single source of data, but usually case study research have multiple sources of data that includes but not limited to direct observation, interview, archival records, documents, participant observation and analysis of physical artifacts (Yin, 1984). Regardless of the nature of the data source, the data can include both qualitative and quantitative data i.e. qualitative data include the non-numerical data for example the data collected via interviews, similarly the qualitative data is the numerical data that includes the information based on the intervals, number or ratios. The focal point of the case study research is not the data

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