Evidence Based Practice in Adult Nursing The aim of this assignment is to critique a piece of quantitative nursing research, by identifying and commenting on the purpose and relevance of the study, the research design and the methodology employed. Firstly it will illustrate how to locate and retrieve evidence relating to the specific topic. A systematic evaluation of one research paper titled: Randomised Clinical Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Two Bandaging Regimens in the Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers (Meyers et al, 2002) will be carried out. Initially the meaning of critique will be defined and the importance of research critique to nursing will be briefly described. Elements of a recognised framework by Cormack (2000) will be used as a guideline through the critique process.
Individual differences were important in this variation as those who were more confident were less likely to conform. A limitation of Asch’s study is whether it is valid or not. Asking students to judge the length of lines is an insignificant task. On a more important task, conformity is likely to drop Asch’s findings may only tell us about conformity in special circumstances and the study also lacks mundane realism. Having said this, the study was still well controlled and systematic.
This is different from a job description because a job description describes the job whilst a person specification describes the person needed to do the job. A person specification also helps to during the selection process because it helps pick out the suitable person. A person specification is found on an application form to inform the applicant whether they are the right person for this job. This document can also be used to during appointing staff because the owner can use this as a checklist to see whether the person they are choosing is right for the job. It is important that the skills and experience is included in the person specification and is relevant to the job role because there is a risk that someone may be recruited on a wrong basis.
← Why should this issue be addressed? Part 2 Step II: Logical and Emotional Appeals There is value in using emotional appeals. An anecdote used in the right place in an essay can wield powerful influence over a reader. Using anecdotes exclusively, however, bases your essay on insignificant stories that don’t add up to anything substantial. Arguments should be logical and based on reasonable evidence and examples.
Critique of Cervical cancer prevention by vaccination: nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and intentions - Psychology Research Paper by Sidney Otoboeze Northern Lights College for PSY 101, Introduction to Psychology Tanya Clary May 18, 2011 Abstract One of the first tasks involved in the critiquing of a research paper is to try to explain the performance and tasks that have taken place. Critiquing research involves a careful examination of all aspects of a study in order to judge its strengths, limitations, meaning and significance (Hek, 1996). As demonstrated in the paper written by Boulianne, Duval, Dube, Ouakki, Gilca,Halperin, Sauvageau, Pielak, Lavoie & Simpson, (2009), it can be concluded that cervical cancer is the second most
Their differences harken back to the original writers on the topic, the nineteenth-century philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. One major school of thought, act utilitarianism, focuses on the action that has been taken, analysing it along the lines of whether the selected action produces more good than bad consequences. For example, a pharmaceutical company may operate by the principle that it will release any officially approved drug with some side effects as long as it helps more persons combat a particular disease than the number troubled by a minor side effect. If the benefits are sufficiently great and the problems with the side effects sufficiently limited, then the action of the pharmaceutical company may be justified on act utilitarian grounds. A second formulation, rule utilitarianism, looks at whether the option or choice conforms to a rule that attempts to maximize the overall utility.
Compare and Contrast, Drug Testing The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast drug testing in the workplace and technology in the workplace with regard to an employee’s right to privacy. Four key points/objectives will be compared and contrasted with Case 7-1, Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing, (Hartman and DesJardins, page 376), and for Case 7-4, The Ethical Use of Technology in Business (Hartman and DesJardins, page 397). The first objective deals with defining privacy. Hartman and DesJardins on page 337 define privacy in two ways: Privacy as a right to be “left alone” and privacy as the right to control information about oneself. Case 7-1 deals with drug testing and the author, Michael Cranford argues that drug testing is ethically justified in employment.
Critical Analysis of Emotional Advertising Techniques ( Coursework 2 ) Simon Burke Principles of Marketing ( 270MKT ) 5th March 2010 Contents Executive Summary Page 3 Introduction Page 3 What is emotion ? Page 3 Emotion in Advertising Page 4 Fear in Advertising Page 4 Sex in Advertising Page 5 Humour in Advertising Page 6 Conclusion Page 6 Recommendations Page 6 Sources Page 7 1. Executive Summary This report will, through the review of academic research, discuss the techniques and outline the positive and negative aspects of emotion based advertising particularly when utilising sex, humour and fear. The report will make conclusions based upon this review and will publish recommendations for using these techniques. 2.
Lacking proper terminology while conducting criminal justice research can be very detrimental to a person’s work, advancement, and career. When an individual is evaluating and analyzing research studies, knowing the terminology associated, will make it easier to complete. Within the research process there are many steps to be completed to be successful. In a criminal justice career some general steps in research are problem formulation, research design, data collection methods, analysis, and presentation of findings, and conclusions, interpretations, and limitations (Hagan, p. 19). Some of the new terminologies obtained from studies in the criminal justice profession are terms such as “Research shock, researchese, concepts, operationalization, dependent and independent variables, theories, and hypothesis (Hagan, p. 15).
In the article The Mathematics of Making Up Your Mind by Will Hively, the author summarizes the analysis of the statistical difference between two medications, tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and streptokinase, used for treating heart attack victims. The author says that all cardiologists agree that both drugs work well, but they disagree on which of the drugs should be used. In order to help doctors decide which drug to use, James Brophy, a cardiologist interested in knowing which drug is superior, teams up with a biostatistician named Lawrence Joseph, and the two published a controversial paper. Brophy and Joseph claimed that to make a rational decision, physicians should follow Bayes' theorem. Bayes' theorem was essentially a formula for updating any kind of belief when confronted with new evidence.