Answers to Research Questions - the Aim of the Research

Running head: ANSWERS TO REASEARCH QUESTIONS
ANSWERS TO REASEARCH QUESTIONS
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ANSWERS TO REASEARCH QUESTIONS1
Question 1: Was there a clear statement of the aims of the research?
Ans. The aim of the research was very clearly stated in the article, which was to explore the
experiences of the nursing students when they made an attempt to communicate with the family
members of a patient.
The research was considered important because the study was supposed to make an
assessment of the opinions of the nursing students on making an effective communication with
the families of a patient, which was dependent on their experiences (Chan, 2017).
The approach was important because a direct involvement of the family members in the
patient centered care plan helps in building a relationship of mutual trust between the nursing
staff and the family of the patient, which in turn promotes an improved quality of patient care.
Question 2: Is a qualitative methodology appropriate?
Ans. The research followed a qualitative approach to analyze the data, since the data was
collected by interviewing each participants and the in-depth analysis of those interviews was
done in order to find the trustworthiness of those studies.
For this research the qualitative approach was required since the research goal involved
the assessment of personal experiences of different individuals, which involved a detailed
analysis that could only be achieved by a qualitative analysis approach.
Question 3: Was the research design appropriate to address the aims of the research?
Ans. The research was aimed at finding the answers to two questions mainly. The first one is to
identify the principle contents of communication the nursing students follow when attempting to
make a communication with the family members of the patient. The second one is to identify the
emotional experiences the nursing students have after that communicational encounter with the
patient family. The answers to the both questions depend on the perspective views of the

ANSWERS TO REASEARCH QUESTIONS2
participants, which cannot be analyzed by a quantitative approach (Chan, 2017). Hence the
qualitative research design was appropriate for this particular study.
Question 4. Was the recruitment strategy appropriate to the aims of the research?
Ans. The study selected nursing students for conducting this study. The students were selected
from a university nursing school.
Half of the sample size selected were the undergraduate students and the rest of the
sample size were the students from Masters first year. The researcher selected the study
population because the criteria of inclusion was an experience in making clinical communication
with the patient family, since the research was based on those experiences only.
There was no exclusion area for selecting the sample population discussed in this study.
Question 5. Was the data collected in a way that addressed the research issue?
Ans. There was a proper justification given for the study setting adapted for this study, which
was qualitative in nature. To answer the research questions a qualitative in-depth analysis was
required.
There was a distinct focus group for the collection of the data, which were the
undergraduate and the Masters first year nursing students. The data was analyzed in two themes,
which attests the detailed efficacy of the approach (Chan, 2017).
There is a justification given for choosing the method for conducting this study, which
was to analyze the perspective views of different nursing students on the communicational
approach with the patient’s family.
There is no mention of specific interview questions or guidelines about how the students
were asked to recollect their experiences.