Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Skills (Prepare for Practice)

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Tacia et al (2015) Identifying barriers to evidence-based practice adoption: A focus group study. United States: Allegiance health system. Well done! You’ve completed your systematic search and presented your results in a table. What next?

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. Outline how you will take what you have learned from this article and disseminate it among your colleagues.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=1473 Many of the issues affecting quantitative research reported in the second article in this series (Lee, 2006b) also apply to qualitative research, such as restrictions on word limits. This makes it important for readers to examine author guidelines for the particular journal.

What sort of evidence have you found? One research paper is qualitative and the other quantitative. Qualitative and quantitative research can be achieved multiple methods. Article A is a qualitative study conducted by using content analysis, participants include 20 nurses working in intensive care units. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and analysis was carried out using an inductive approach (Deldar, Froutan and Ebadi, 2018). Article B is a quantitative study carried out by using a survey which was conducted at a 385-bed hospital in Central Virginia. Intensive care nurses were selected as the sample population since they have more experience of taking care of non-communicative patients that other nurses in various other hospital units (Lovin, 2017). Out of the 31 surveys which were sent out to nurses, only 26 of these nurses participated in the study. The research approach normally influences its design. That is, the research design tells readers how the researcher actually implemented the research approach.Gordon, DB., Dahl, JL., Miaskowski, C., McCarberg, B., Todd, KH., Paice, JA., Lipman, AG., Bookbinder, M., Sanders, SH. and Turk, DC. (2005). American pain society recommendations for improving the quality of acute and cancer pain management. Arch Intern Med, 165(14), pp.1574-1580. The aim of the research which has been carried out is to achieve better and deeper understand of the existing nurses’ challenges in using pain assessment scales among patients who are unable to communicate. By now you have completed your search in your chosen database(s). You’ve refined the results and are happy with the number andrelevance. Be sure to read through our guidance on Selecting your Sources if you need a little more help with refining your results.

The following are some of the characteristics of qualitative research: 1. Qualitative researchers collect field data at the locations where participants experience the problem or issue to be studied. Qualitative researchers do not change the environmental settings and activities of the participants. What is criticism of qualitative research? Finally, 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 Leach, M. J. (2006). Evidence‐based practice: A framework for clinical practice and research design. International Journal of Nursing Practice Vol.12 pp. 248-251.Lovin, R. (2017) Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Practices towards Pain Evaluation in Nonverbal Patients. Montview Liberty University Journal of Undergraduate Research [online]. 3(1), pp.1-34. [Accessed 19/02/2019]. Available at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/montview/vol3/iss1/4/ Critiquing frameworks enable readers to make a judgement regarding the soundness of the research. While it is possible to critique a piece of research without them, frameworks serve as useful aides-memoires for those who are not used to critiquing research. Search allstrings in combination in each of your selected databases.Record the number of search results for each database. Ellis, P. (2013). Understanding Research for Nursing Students. 2 nd Ed. London: Learning Matters (SAGE). Nursing students require a unique guide to research and evidence based practice to help them succeed in both the classroom and the clinical area. Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Skills is a one-stop-shop of the theory and practice of EBP including practical tips for assignments and placements.

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. Arts, Humanities and Cultures • AQA A-level History: Britain 1851-1964: Challenge and Transformation The terminology used in some professional journals would require inexperienced readers to explore meanings further. For example, the term ‘constant comparative analysis’ would be familiar to qualitative researchers - particularly those who use the grounded theory approach (methodology) even though there may not be space within the journal to explain why this is unique to one particular research approach. Once data analysis has been completed, then qualitative researchers discuss their findings, although generalisability is not normally possible with qualitative research. Qualitative research ensures nurses are able to provide patients with the best EBP Fain (2017). Parahoo (2014) explains that qualitative research enables to understand each individuals’ experiences and also ensures to understand a patient’s own perspectives of the topic that is being researched. Galvin and Holloway (2017) also agree with parahoo as they explain that by using different approaches which may include group interviews or individual, this allows the researcher to speak to the individuals that are exploring thoughts and feelings and be able to engage with them. As practitioners gain a deeper understanding of critiquing a single piece of research, they should consider critiquing several research studies on a particular topic, searching for common themes. They could then write a critical review of the literature on that chosen topic. Learning objectives

Is quantitative or qualitative critique easier?

Second, the terminology that is used in some of the journals would still require inexperienced readers to explore meanings further. The RCT, and following on from that, descriptive and inferential statistics, would be fully understood by the researcher but not necessarily fully understood by readers. Search restrictions: Full Text Online, Nursing and English language were used, and the date range was from 2013 to 2019 but as suitable articles were hard to find within this date range it had to be changed to 2012 to 2019. Different frameworks can be used to critique research articles, the framework which will be used within this assignment is the Holland and Rees (2010) critiquing research framework. This framework has been chosen due to its ability to access online and detail of the questions. How do you critique a framework? Creswell, J.W., Clark, P VL (2011) Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research 2nd Ed. Scotland: Sage Publications