Based on your course reading assignments and your pending research problem, what type of study do you believe you are conducting, and please explain why?

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Descriptive research is a study designed to depict the participants in an accurate way. More simply put, descriptive analysis is all about describing people who take part in the survey.

There are three ways a researcher can go about doing a descriptive research project, and they are:

Observational, defined as a method of viewing and recording the participants

Case study, defined as an in-depth study of an individual or group of individuals

Survey, defined as a brief interview or discussion with an individual about a specific topic

Mixed methods research (Extracted from the article below) is the use of quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or series of studies. It is a new methodology that is increasingly used by health researchers, especially within health services research. There is a growing literature on the theory, design, and critical appraisal of mixed methods research. However, few papers summarize this methodological approach for health practitioners who wish to conduct or critically engage with mixed methods studies.

Article: Using Mixed Methods in Health Research

Meta-Analysis

Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combining data from multiple studies on a particular topic. A Meta-analysis is an analytical tool for estimating the mean and variance of underlying population effects from a collection of empirical studies addressing ostensibly the same research question. Meta‐analysis has become an increasingly popular and valuable tool in psychological research, and significant review articles typically employ these methods.

Article: Meta-Analysis in Medical Research

Epidemiology

According to the Centers for Disease Control, Epidemiology is the method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations. In epidemiology, the patient is the community and individuals are viewed collectively. By definition, epidemiology is the study (scientific, systematic, and data-driven) of the distribution (frequency, pattern) and determinants (causes, risk factors) of health-related states and events (not just diseases) in specified populations (neighborhood, school, city, state, country, global).

Article: Epidemiology is a Science of High Importance

Longitudinal Studies

Longitudinal Study, an epidemiologic study that follows a population forward over time, evaluating the effects of one or more variables on a process. If individuals are followed, it is termed a longitudinal cohort study. If classes—e.g., age classes—are studied, it is a longitudinal cross-sectional study. Longitudinal studies are the converse (opposite) of horizontal (parallel) studies.

Article Longitudinal Studies

Running head: NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 1

NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 2

Phase 1 Paper Assignment

Karen Lezcano

Florida National University

February 1st, 2020

Nursing Research Project

Introduction

Nursing just like any profession faces numerous challenges daily. Nurses are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that they work diligently and professionally to ensure that their clients are satisfied with the services that they deliver. They are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that the patients that visit their premises get quality services that they deserve. However, these services come at a cost; they face a myriad of challenges that they have to work fully despite these challenges to satisfy their clients. Therefore, this research paper analysis some of the problems that nurses face in the daily execution of their duties.

Identification of the Problem

Nurse faces a myriad of challenges in their daily execution of duties. To ensure that they discharge their duties perfectly all these challenges must be identified and effective measures are put in place to ensure that the challenges are taken care of. The major problems that most of the medical facilities are the issue of understaffing. Nurses have faced challenges in terms of duties assigned to them in comparison to their numbers. Studies conducted have also portrayed that there are shortages of nurses in the medical facilities. However, the challenges that these nurses face are varied in different nations and towns, there are those nations that have surplus while there are those towns and nations that have a high shortage of these important service providers in the healthcare facilities.

The impact of these shortages has also resulted in further challenges for the nurses. In this regard, one of the major challenges that these nurses face is the need to work for long hours due to the shortage of employees at the medical facilities. The few available nurses must work in shifts and endure long working hours to ensure that they meet the desired goals of the institution are met. The work of nurses calls for one to be sober and cognitive in decision making (McLelland et al. 2015). However, with a situation where nurses are required to work for long hours, work in shifts such that they can sleep for a while and resume their duties. This is a worrying trend for the nurses because their cognitive ability and judgment as normal human beings are likely to decline when overworked. Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions are also likely to increase with time as they work overtime.

Besides that, the shortages of nurses in healthcare facilities which calls for overworking of these nurses to ensure that patients are fully taken care of, usually lead to an increase in hazard and dangerous accidents taking place taking place during their execution of duties. For instance, nurses working in laboratories are exposed to hazardous chemicals, viruses, and pathogens as they seek to unveil the diseases of their patients (Shoorideh et al. 2015). Therefore, if they are overworked they are likely to make mistakes which might result in situations where the nurses might get injured or make the wrong diagnosis for their patients. This is a situation that can make the running of the facility unimaginable due to the prevailing situation.

Significance of the Problem

Nurses are key role players in the successful running of the healthcare facilities. All the healthcare facilities require the services of the nurses to ensure that the needs of the patients are taken care of. In this regard, the problem of understaffing of nurses at the medical institutions is a major problem that these institutions should be able to manage to ensure that the desired results are achieved. Medical facilities require that they use these nurses to discharge their duties perfectly; their shortage is an issue that institutions see a huge challenge towards meeting their goals.

Shortages of nurses in healthcare organizations mean that these institutions are unable to effectively discharge their duties as expected. Experienced nurses have higher chances of perfectly discharging their duties, institutions that have insufficient nurses’ means that they can only meet the ever-increasing number of patients in hospitals by overworking these nurses. Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions as nurses are also high as they get fatigued when they are overworked (Alavi et al. 2015).

The issue of understaffed nurses is an issue of not only an issue of concern by medical facilities but also by the states and health organizations in various sectors. Healthcare is an issue of concern to all individuals as we are all expected to be of good health so that we can produce. States advocate having enough medical staff so that all medical situations can always be easily managed whenever they arise. Adequate nurses in the medical facilities usually make it easier to manage any medical emergencies that might arise thus making it easier to have a healthy nation that’s productive in all corners.

Besides that, understaffed nurses mean that it’s difficult for these professions to have time for their research and improve their skills. Medical facilities are always facing challenges on daily basis; there are medical situations that require substantial time for the nurses to analyze the samples before coming up with a solution to the prevailing situation (Lu et al. 2015). Therefore, in such cases where the number of nurses matters at any medical facility the process of determining the required results is usually difficult for the management. This ends with the facility not being able to satisfy their clients in the long run the facilities end up with reduced clients and low income if it’s a private facility.

Purpose of Research

This research aims to determine the problems that nurse’s face in their daily discharging of duties. Nurses play key roles in our well-being in society and conducting research to determine the problems that they face is only meant to ensure that they improve in the services that they deliver. This study has shown that the major problem that they face is understaffing in most of the nations. Major hospitals have been unable to effectively discharge their duties because they have few nurses to effectively discharge their duties.

Besides that, as a result of this study, relevant institutions and bodies have an opportunity to learn of the challenges that nurse’s face in their daily discharge of duties. In this regard, learning of the shortages of the nurses in the medical facilities indicates that relevant bodies and institutions should play their roles perfectly towards ensuring that there are adequate and qualified nurses for the medical facilities to ensure that at the end the desired goals can always be achieved (Skundberg‐Kletthagen & Moen, 2017). As a result, this study provides an opportunity for the relevant bodies to initiate the right measures that will make it better in the running of the medical facilities.

Research Questions

This research seeks to determine the most effective ways that would ensure there is effective running of the desired goals. Nurses are critical for the provision of medical services in the facility. However, despite enormous studies being done on the roles of nurses in society, there have been limited studies that have been done on the exact challenges that nurses face. Therefore, this study seeks to answer the question, what challenges nurses face in their daily discharge of duties? Besides that, there also the need to answer the question, what are the benefits of having adequate and qualified nurses in the medical facilities?

Effective answering of these questions will provide a clear road map for the future nurses and relevant authorities. This only means that future nurses have a chance to be fully equipped and be well-staffed and experienced as they shall be provided with all the necessary tools and resources that would result in the desired needs of their clients being fully taken care of and on a timely basis.

References

Alavi, A., Bahrami, M., Zargham-Boroujeni, A., & Yousefy, A. (2015). Pediatric nurses’ perception of factors associated with caring self-efficacy: A qualitative content analysis. Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research, 20(2), 232.

Lu, D. M., Sun, N., Hong, S., Fan, Y. Y., Kong, F. Y., & Li, Q. J. (2015). Occupational stress and coping strategies among emergency department nurses of China. Archives of psychiatric nursing, 29(4), 208-212.

McLelland, G., Hall, H., Gilmour, C., & Cant, R. (2015). Support needs of breastfeeding women: Views of Australian midwives and health nurses. Midwifery, 31(1), e1-e6.

Skundberg‐Kletthagen, H., & Moen, Ø. L. (2017). Mental health work in school health services and school nurses’ involvement and attitudes, in a Norwegian context. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(23-24), 5044-5051.

Shoorideh, F. A., Ashktorab, T., Yaghmaei, F., & Alavi Majd, H. (2015). Relationship between ICU nurses’ moral distress with burnout and anticipated turnover. Nursing Ethics, 22(1), 64-76.