Qualitative Research

Nursing is a noble profession, the capability of a nurse to understand the patient’s needs and assisting them to recovery is truly an amazing thing that a nurse can do. Nurses’ use clinical judgments’ in providing care for patients’ to improve, restore or recover their health status and to achieve the best outcomes regardless their disease or disability until death. Each and one of us are born in different ways and place and what unites everyone regardless what cultures they are from at the end all of us will die. Nevertheless, each and everyone’s culture varies from the way they conceptualize death. Some cultural believes that death will occur with certain age and in some cultural, death is said to happen when the person had total cessation of life. In certain cultural, death is vied as a transition to other form of continuation (Beshai, 2008).

Nurses: Assist the patients and families to cope with the end-of-life process such as assessing and

In the first article chosen, “Why are Nurses Leaving? Findings From an Initial Qualitative Study on Nursing Attrition,” the research method used was qualitative. The specific type of research design used was phenomenology. The participants were interviewed about their person experience of what it was like working as a registered nurse. The research question for this study was, “What is the experience of RNs who leave clinical nursing?” The sample is registered nurses (RN) with a minimum of 1 year of clinical practice and no clinical practice in the last 6 months. The sample size was ten, which were a majority of females (80%),

Sixty percent of all deaths occur in hospitals, and 80% to 90% of the deaths will be expected (Freeman 2013). A peaceful death may mean something different to one patient than to someone else. Of course, often one doesn’t get to choose. But, avoiding suffering, having your end-of-life wishes followed, and being treated with respect while dying are common hopes. The critical needs of dying people may also include: understanding what can be expected of death, being able to maintain a sense of control and having their wishes given preference, having access to information, and having access to spiritual and emotional support (Chan, Webster & Bowers 2016).

I believe the average American’s view of death and the dying process has slowly changed throughout time. The slow change in our population’s view of death can partially be contributed to the negative view the media often casts on death and the dying process, as well as the lack of the connection many American’s have with their aging family members. In the past, family was often present during the aging and dying process. However, families are often nuclear units currently, and are not as involved as they once were. Rather than having a personal experience with death and the dying process and truly having a personal view, many individual’s views regarding death are often influenced by the negative portrayal in the media.

A qualitative study delves into a social or human problem in hopes to formulate a theory about that phenomenon. Paterson et al. (2005) performed a qualitative study that formulated a theory on how male nursing students learn to care. The researchers discovered how and what aspects perpetuated males to learn to care for patients empathetically while in nursing school. This paper will critique the above study noted and provide rationales.

The title of this research study is: The internet and student research: teaching critical evaluation skills. I believe that this title is suitable for the research study because it is an overview of the information that relates the point of the study itself which indicates a connection between students and their use of the internet when it comes to utilizing the internet as a research tool. The study reflects the central phenomenon by exploring

The article I chose to discuss is: Davis, H. A., & Bowman, S. L. (2015). Examining experiences of weight-related oppression in a bariatric sample: A qualitative exploration.

The Stress of caring for dying patients? Aims and Purpose of the Study: The authors aimed at finding out the factors that made caring for a dying patient so stressful for nurses in the United States. The main aim of the study was to find out nurses' concerns in their care for a dying patient and how the factors also lead to total burnout of the nurses.

The researchers used convenience sampling by recruiting women from a metropolitan breast center in the Midwest US, newly diagnosed with stage 0-II breast cancer, not yet treated.

Research Question: Does inadequate education play a role in incorrect use of inhalation devices in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?

2009). Nurses view that it is essential to form a relationship with the patient in order to provide care for the dying. It depends on the level of engagement of the nurse on how easily or how hard she can cope with the lost a patient (Shorter & Stayt 2009). Some nurses immersed themselves and put themselves on the patient’s shoes in order to develop that connection often times they would even asked relatives how the patient was like when he/she was still well. The significance to the staff is also influenced more if both the caregiver and the patient shared the same demographics and culture. On the contrary some nurses try to distant themselves and try to avoid being too close to the patient and the family to shield them from grief. Nurses view patient death in two ways (a). Good death and (b). Bad death.( shorter & Stayt 2009). A good death is when the nurse is prepared and knows that death is imminent. The nurse has an idea on how the course of the treatment will be,it is therefore deemed less traumatic for them. Bad death happens when the demise of the patient is sudden. Feelings of regret and guilt plagues the caregiver, often wondering what could have been done to avoid death.

A better understanding of a community helps define the variations of healthcare interrelated concerns that exist in that community. Therefore, it is important that when conducting a research, the studied should be on predominant problem or an environment and the conditions should be the subject of the research. A research may include both qualitative and quantitative approaches that have strategical and empirical investigation, exploring the distinctive evidence, from multiple sources of indication, and from preceding development of theoretic claims (Ennals, 2009).

Both physical and psychological lose that leads patient losing dignity. Chochinov et al (2002) describe a model of dignity that is related concerns (symptoms, psychological distress, uncertainty, death anxiety, and independent). How to address the psychological problem of patients with end of life and protect and respect patient’s dignity are required in professional nursing care, this is related to NMC (2015) code that all registered nurses should respect patient as an individual and promote and protect the dignity of patients. Also improving the care of the dying is one of the most important priorities in NHS (DH, 2008).

This research employed a textual analysis of findom advertisements and qualitative interviews. The interviews included a questionnaire on basic information and a voice interview for an in-depth understanding of participants’ perspectives.