Quantitative Assessment 1

Research Design and Methodology: A quantitative assessment of patient and nursing outcomes

of bedside nursing report implementation

Caroline Elangwe

NURS 3150 Foundations of Nursing Research

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Journal Club Template for Quantitative Research Article

The purpose of this assignment is to describe the research design and methodology.
Please discuss the research design, the sample selection, the data collection methods, the
data collection measures and/or tools, and the plans for data analysis. Please do not focus
on or include the results of the study. (Use this template and make sure to support the
information that you have used in the template. Each section of the template needs to be fully
developed and written well in a succinct manner.)

Purpose of study: This study is meant to quantify the results of a change in nursing practice to
blended form of reporting in bedside nursing. According to the Encyclopedia of Nursing, bedside
nursing is direct patient care. The existing literature review on this topic revealed that there are
numerous advantages of bedside nursing report; however, these results were either not compiled
properly, or conducted carefully. The previous studies had small or ambiguous sample sizes,
which made the results unreliable. Thus, in a way, the study is meant to be an improvement on
the existing literature on the subject.

Research This study incorporates several types of research designs. It is

Design primarily a descriptive type of study- which means observing and
describing the behavior of a subject without influencing its
behavior- because it includes surveys filled by bedside nurses. It
also includes observations done by the researchers directly to see
when and how patients fell from their beds in different setups of
nursing. Online interviews with nurses all across the United States
were also used to get information about the nurses’ jobs and
opinions. In short, three tools- online interviews, surveys and direct
observation- were used in this study, which makes it, primarily, a
descriptive study.

Sample This study includes three different subjects: patients, families and
Selection nurses. The baseline data for the study includes 233 patients. Since
the study was broken down into a three-month study and a 13-
month study, 154 patients were studied in the three-month study,
and 157 were studied in the 13-month study. Moreover, 70 family
members were chosen as baseline sample; 72 were studied in the 3-
month study, while 53 were studied in the 13-month study. Finally,
the baseline sample for the nurses included 148 nurses; 98 nurses
were used in the three-month study, and 54 for the 13-month post-
implementation survey.
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Data Collection The researchers prepared a set of questions, which was compiled as
Methods, an online questionnaire. Nurses were expected to fill the online
Measures and questionnaires. Patients who fell from their beds were interviewed.
Tools Observations were generally restricted to patients who fell from
their beds during hospitalization. Families of the patients were
interviewed. Nurses and patients were given a survey that included
17 questions about nurses’ behavior.

Plans for Data Once the data collection was completed, patient narratives were
Analysis analyzed. ANOVA tests were carried out on the pre implementation
and post implementation data to check for changes in factors that
were being observed.

Strengths One of the strengths of this research technique is that it includes an

ANOVA test on all the data, which reduces the chances of Type 1
or “false positive” error.

Another factor contributing to the strength and reliability of this

study is the fact that a three-month and a 13-month study was
conducted. This helps see the long term and short term effects of the
variables being studied.

The study also includes structured interviews that provide

quantitative data for future reference.

Weaknesses The data collection methods are slightly strange; the baseline
sample size is smaller than the individual subjects being tested. The
sample sizes are also relatively small. More families should have
been interviewed.

The idea of suing online questionnaires instead of face-to-face

interviews is also not a good one. Online surveys can be filled in a
rush, or incorrectly sometimes, making them less reliable than
physical interactions.

Other potential problems could arise from human errors, like

incorrect observation, or confirmation bias. The questionnaires can
also have skewed results if they are not constructed properly;
however, these problems are likely to arise in every study.

Reference
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