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Bibliographical Entry: Karen S. Hammad,BN (Hons), 2010 nurses and disaster response :
1. Critique title
The title of the study is brief and informative however, the title make a clear the
responses. If the topic is too broad it may be hard to find information that is focused and
relevant; if the topic is too narrow it may be hard to find any information at all
The expert area of the researcher is emergency nursing, so therefore the research topic is
Actually the reseacher in this study didn mention the abstrack but the autor make a
summary consist of the problem, design methode, instrument, but not complete. Such us
how many sample, didnt mention the purpose and resulth . therefor the summary not
clear and does not connect with the content. Is better if the reseacher make a more
According to the researcher natural disasters make a many impact in australian , but just
a litlte is understood about what skill or experience they need in order to respon disaster
even.
The problem statement was very lengthy and needed to be reread several times to
understand the point of the study. The problem did, however, agree with the title and had
an educational significance
And the researcher want to know the knowladge and perception of the nurse. But is
better if the reseacher add wich factor that explores rom the nurses. Such us : factors of
the knowladge and what perceptions. However the research problem is good because in
this study the researcher make clear the paradigm such us a man, person , nursing
environment. The researcher didn mention hyphotesis but we would like to know from
Comments - The authors objectives were attainable. They included enough information
to accomplish the purpose and will help solve the problem. The author also included a
list of hypotheses which were constructed to achieve the objectives of the study
This study provide the literature that relavant to this stady are about the disaster
experience . other than that there are the conection between the presents study and the
emergency nurses in disaster (2009) The study aim was to explore emergency nurses'
perceptions of CBR incidents and factors that may influence their capacity to respond.
And taylor RM, australian nurses caring for victims of bali bombing disaster. So this is
However, In this research theres GAP of the literature are there are only a small amount
of studies that directly related to emergency nurses and disaster. There is no current
research that explores emergency nurses and perceptions of their roles in disaster
responses
And the researcher make a paraphrase from the other sources because many assumtion
that he make. However there is some of the paragraf from the original sources. But over
The researcher didn mention conceptual framework. Actualy in mix methode research the
In this study the researcher use mix methode design: qualitative and quantitative.
Quantitive data has provide tatistic evidance to suport the findings, while the qualitative
data has allowed fo a richer understanding of nurses perception. So the methode design is
apropriate.
Based on the types of design mix metode this journal is type sequental exploratory
design. The author used quantitative data to provided statistic to support the findings, and
quaitative data for richer understanding of nurses perception. From the resulth in table I
the author used qualitative to know the knowledge test on disaster. And in the figure I
There were 4432 critical care/ emergency nurses in 2007. But at the time the study was
conducted there were 558 registered nurses(RN) . this number include nurses who were
on leave at the time the survay was circulated. My assumtion the researcher use random
sampling technique.
In this research the researcher use a questionaire was choses as the data collection tool.
But did not identify an existing survay tool. The period of four weeks to complete the
In this study, the data was analyzed using sum, percentage, frequency distribution and
measures of central tendency. And qualitative to know the nurses perception, And
thematic analysis was also used for the analysis of all open ended and short answer
questions.
In this study there is research etics but the researcher didn mention what is the etics
aspect. Just explain the the proposed research was initially sought from individual
In this study over all is good for interpretive data , not to broad and narrow. Make easy to
understanding.
The reseacher explain the table is clear he used table and graph or chart.
In presentation the resulth is good, the researcher uses a table for qualitative data and
diagram for quantitative . And very complete. Not to large and his explaination very
clear.
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Learning point
The author were able to utilize a mixed method approach at problem identification ,
Mixed methods can be especially useful when examining a sensitive topic area
For my area of study it was particylarly useful to used this journal to my reseach