Qualitative Article Critique

Mor, V., Mukamel, D.B., & Spector, W. D. (2009). The costs of turnover in nursing homes. The Costs of Turnover in Nursing Homes. Retrieved from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/... National Cent

The stated purpose of the article was to evaluate not only pain control in adolescents who underwent a spinal fusion, but also the emotional/psychological and physical affect it had on them. Another stated purpose was to uncover the pre-operation education and preparedness for the surgery. Is it enough to prepare

Everyone possess critical thinking skills but when it comes to criticize a journal article it can be difficult for the first time, one of the best ways to develop critical thinking and reading skills is to use some strategies when reading and evaluating a research study (Wood & Haber,1998). The following essay it is going to focus in a critique of a qualitative journal article by giving its strengths and weakness, critical appraisal it is going to be done with support from different references and frameworks relevant to a qualitative study.

The qualitative article being appraised is by Martin and Woods (2012) using the CASP tool qualitative framework (CASP 2013). These tools have been validated to ensure that studies can be assessed in a consistent way assessing the trustworthiness of the research article (Aveyard, 2014)

At the psychological level, stressful and poor working conditions can cause continuing feelings of humiliation, insecurity and worthlessness. Not having a secure understanding of the future can cause large amounts of anxiety and futility that roots high levels of fatigue from day-to-day life, therefore making everyday coping difficult. Individuals who experience high levels of prolonged stress often attempt to relieve these pressures by adopting unhealthy coping behaviours; for example, the excessive use of alcohol, smoking, and

Gilmartin, J. (2003). Day surgery: Patients’ perceptions of a nurse-led preadmission clinic. Journal of Clinical Nursing 13, 243-250.

This is a quantitative critique of “Do Higher Dispositions for Empathy Predispose Males Toward Careers in Nursing? A Descriptive Correlation Design (Penprase, Oakley, Ternes, Driscoll).

In defining the concept of stress, occupational stress and role stress are examined based on the fact that people's lives are characterized with stressors that contribute to numerous threats to their well-being. Since the concept of role stress, which is related to occupational stress, is not found in the dictionary, the starting point in the definition and analysis of stress is the use of the term stress (Riahi, 2011, p.722). While stress was initially described as the experience of some form of strain by any living organisms, the description has been expanded to a phenomenon that contributes to severe and distressing experience,

This research article Megan et al. (2016). The authors aim to use qualitative research methods to explore sake of taking care of patients with severe obesity, explore the doctors and nurses in the intensive care unit culture and influence. They participated in observed four months of nursing practice and interview the intensive care unit, constant comparative method is used to analyse the applicable to each theme events to. The research has analyse Interactions between intensive care staff and morbidly obese patients and how nurse normally doing when awkwardness happened. The content of this research is not really connect with my report but the approach those researcher use in their research prove my idea which is ethnography will obtaining

Many believe that stress is a simple problem, however it is often misunderstood and more complex than they believe (p. 181, Griffin & Moorhead, 2014). Stress is the physiological and psychological response to excessive and usually unpleasant stimulation as well as threatening events in the environment (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). Stress appears in silent and subtle ways but this negative response affects millions of employees in all levels of all types of jobs (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). If identified

Stress among college students can be detrimental to social health and education. That is why Leslie A. Stewart, Franco Dispenza, Lindy Parker, Catherine Y. Chang, and Taffey Cunnien developed a study, focusing on stress management and interventions within the college student population. The purpose of this paper is to critique the quantitative research study conducted by Stewart et al. (2014). The underlying purpose of the study and the purpose statement revealed the variables and population, with the independent variable being the AAT outreach intervention (dog therapy, in this study) and the dependent variables being both the loneliness and anxiety experienced by the identified population of college students. The researchers tested and studied a new, creative and innovative intervention regarding the AAT outreach program with therapeutic animals such as dogs and the ability of those animals to reduce stress and anxiety of college students. Concurrently, both stress and anxiety

This author believes Hayes & Weathington (2007) given a great definition of stress which states “stress is any circumstance that places special physical or psychological anxiety on a person such that requires an infrequent or extraordinary response occurs.” Based on this definition it can be said stress from a job will overlap into one’s private life which only will complicate issues more. The effect of stress can leave individual with the mindset that they are trapped in this situation and will not be able to acclimate to the situation.

Since Karasek’s landmark paper appeared in 1979, stress in the work environment has received considerable attention in a wide variety of academic literature studies as being a significant issue for employers, workers, and wider society (Karasek, 1979; Siegrist, 1985; Johnson & Hall, 1988; McCaig & Harrington, 1998; Smith 2001; de Lange, Taris, Kompier, Houtman, Bongers, 2008). There is evidence from

      Stress is an ongoing dilemma that occurs in each and everyone’s life. It is a factor that is undoubtedly a part of daily living. Due to the trivial problems that occur in people’s daily lives massive amounts of stress can arise. People perceive and manage stress in many different ways. The causes and effects of stress are numerous and one’s ability to manage stress is vital in maintaining healthy living.

Stress is a major element in the life of an employee even manager and executives experience stress many times in their working activities.