disccussion 10-
Sampling Methods
Instructions:
- Please find an experimental or quasi-experimental or descriptive article you wild like to use for the article critique assignment. Make sure it is from a nursing journal and is not older than five years. on a topic of your interest.
- Review the article and provide a summary of the article, and answer the following questions:
- Discuss whether you think the article is true-experimental, quasi-experimental, or no experimental. You must also state what type of quantitative design (descriptive, correlational, etc.)
- Where was the setting of the study?
- What are the sampling methods? Does the sample reflect the population (representativeness)? What about sample size? What was the risk of sampling error in the study? Did the author acknowledge the sample criteria? Inclusion or exclusion?
- What are the variables being measured?
- What data collections methods were used?
- What is the intervention?
discussion 11
Qualitative Research Designs
Instructions:
- In your own words, discuss what it meant by the qualitative research approach to knowledge generation.
- What are the characteristics of qualitative research studies?
- Locate a nursing related journal article that used a qualitative research approach. Using what you know about qualitative research, answer the following questions:
- What was the problem area and research question?
- What were the study’s concepts, independent variables, dependent variables, and operational definitions (if any)?
- How did the author overcome the limitations of doing a qualitative study?
- Did the author question any collective subjective beliefs? If so, what were they?
- Did the qualitative study incorporate “human concern” for the client with effective nursing practice? Explain, providing examples from the study.