Examples Of Critiquing Qualitative

Quantitive and qualitative studies in research are an important aspect of the nursing profession. Researching and reviewing quantitive and qualitative articles is a process of systematic examination of materials to enhance, validate and learn new knowledge (Schmidt and Brown, 2012, p. 67). As Schmidt and Brown (2012) state, quantitive research design is used to predict relationships and explain relationships and causality whereas qualitative research design gives meaning to events of phenomenon’s (p.72). The purpose of this paper is to identify and

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is the leading cause of death out of all hospital-acquired infections. Pneumonia that is acquired 48 hours or longer after at patient has been mechanically ventilated is considered hospital acquired. Endotracheal tubes provide pathogenic microorganisms’ with a direct access to the lungs where they can easily set up shop and cause deathly consequences for patients’ in the acute care setting. For example, the mortality rate of patients who have ventilator-associated pneumonia is 46% whereas unaffected intubated patients mortality rate is 32%. When ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) occurs in a patient(s), it often increases the amount of days a patient is on the ventilator and increases their overall hospital stay (Safe Care). The big problem with this is that VAP is costing hospitals

The research question is ‘ Does elevating the head of the bed reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia?’

Qualitative research is about non numerical data and can be defined as a type of research that is used to understand a given behavior, and it provides a general knowledge of the issue to develop hypotheses. This kind of research adds to the nursing practice, science, and knowledge, by filling in the gaps where quantitative knowledge fails to explain a health problem. In providing a hypothesis, it sets the grounds for other studies to be done. It is the kind of research that provides clinicians the why for implementation of a given practice. It does not provide cause and effect. Qualitative research gets at the how and why of the story, in ways that quantitative research cannot. The key concept of the study is often referred to as central phenomenon

It is vary minute to minute in the hospital, patients situation will be change in a blink of an eye. Nowadays ventilated patients are easily infect pneumonia cause by serval bacteria, mortality rate for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [1] lies between 20% and 60% [2][3], and can be even more higher but it takes 3~5days for cultured and identify which type the bacteria is, by this time bacteria keep growing and increase the difficulty of treatment so we are looking forward to change standard operating procedure into instant detection without draw blood, chest X-ray and sputum culture.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is known to be the second most common nosocomial infection found in intensive care units. VAP has been associated with increased mortality, morbidity, and health-related costs. A study by the University of Faisalabad (Pakistan) was published by the Journal of University Medical & Dental College to determine if the severity of VAP can be prevented through the implementation of comprehensive strategies and clinical practices. In this study, eighty-six ventilated patients were placed in a randomized clinical trial located at the intensive care unit of Shahid Sadoughi Hospital, yazd, Iran.

increases the risk of death of critically ill patients and also increa ses patients‟ length

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a hospital acquired infection which happens to patients who are intubated. It costs the hospital and the patient money. It is a deadly disease that can be prevented through the right type of interventions. Current practice generally depends on the hospital; most hospitals use a VAP bundle. According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2012) the VAP bundle consists of; head of the bed elevation of at least 30 degrees, daily sedation from weaning, readiness to extubate, Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis, stress ulcer prophylaxis, oral care with chlorohexidine (How to Guide, 2012). This currently is the protocol at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center. However, adding subglottic secretion suctioning to this bundle has the ability to improve patient outcomes

• Conclusions The guidelines for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are not consistently or uniformly implemented. Practices of nurses employed in hospitals with oral care protocols are more often congruent with the guidelines than are practices of nurses employed in hospitals without such protocols. Significant reductions in

Keeley frames the problem to be addressed as how clinicians can reduce the occurrence and severity of ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP), which affects up to 25% of all ventilated patients in hospitals. Seventy percent of patients who die of acute respiratory distress syndrome have VAP and VAP is the leading cause of deaths among all hospital-acquired infections. The research did incorporate statistical research. The statistical methodology included randomly separating the targeted population into two groups and applying different interventions to each one. Keeley found that patients who were inclined at a 45 degree angle were less likely to contract VAP than those at a 25 degree angle. Thus, the article did support the proposed change to reduce incidence. The sample size, however, was too small to make any statistically significant finding.

This article represents a research done on a quantitative review on the physical and non-physical violence, bullying and sexual harassment that nurses in various hospitals experience. The purpose of the research was to estimate exposure rates by type of violence, setting, source and world region. In the modern world, visiting medical centers is one of the norms and hence the involved parties cross paths occasionally. Since the nurses take care of the patients more, they tend to face both physical and non-physical violence, bullying and sexual harassments as they try to cope with the environment that is flooded with new individuals every other day.

Within research there are two categories of ways in which you can conduct your study and present you findings. A researcher can either use qualitative research or quantitative research. Qualitative research is more descriptive and narrative in nature than quantitative and uses words and classifications to tell about a situation or subject. Conversely, quantitative research is more concerned with numbers and statistics found. Many different types of research questions can be answered by quantitative research including “What is something?”, “Could there be a correlation between these phenomenon?”, or “Does A cause B to happen?”. A researcher attempting to answer these types of questions could use surveys or experiments to collect data. Then

As for the quantitative it put emphasis on specific standard or numerical data and applies different kind of statistical analysis. The researcher always stays independent, apart and uses random sampling to prevent personal prejudices to misrepresent the results which can easily be generalized (IPA Research Method, 2010).

Once you have collected qualitative data you must then analysis the data and there are things that must be considered. Analyzing the research involves having a aim that you want to uncover, using that uncovered data to explain a phenomenon. Also with qualitative research you can use almost all of the data that you may collect, any responses that you have put together from unstructured qualitative methods. Another aspect that needs to be considered about qualitative research is that it doesn’t have a existing set system to identify and label the data. So a research need to use create their own methods using content analysis. Content analysis is a system for labeling verbal or behavioral data so that the data can be put into classification, summarization and tabulation classes. This allows the research to analysis the data according to it’s specifically class and allow them to know how to approach the data.

The difference between qualitative and quantitative research is basically a methodological issue and the researcher’s decision to choose a specific research approach should be based on its suitability to answer the established research questions (Bryman, 1992). A qualitative approach according to (Creswell, 2003) should be a logical subjective approach and should be able to describe experiences and