Assessment 2: Guided Review of Literature

Assessment 2
Assessment 2 Guided Review of nominated literature
Guided Question Qualitative Study Quantitative Study
1. Aim and Significance
a. What was the aim and
significance of the study?
The objectives are the specific actions to be
accomplished to achieve the study problem
(Polit, 2016). In this study, the researchers
have stated an achievable aim as ‘to explore
the experiences and perspectives of nurses on
controlling/preventing the errors related to
medication administration’ which is clear,
highly relevant and acceptable to research
question (Iverson, 2014).
According to Gill (2012), the nurse’s
adherence to medication safety practices
seems to be a great problem (Raban &
Westbrook, 2013), while only a little evidence
is available regarding the experiences as well
In this study, Sahay (2015) has identified the aim
as ‘to investigate the association between the
work-place supports & relationships and safe
medication practices among Graduate nurses’,
which can help to solve the study-problem as
advised by Boswell.(2017). The given aim is
clear, concise, not too long or short, appropriate
and is based on purpose.
The study’s significance include in-spite of
advancing awareness about the benefits of
positive work area supports as well as
relationships, un-supportive and highly-disruptive
work area behaviors are wide-spread in health
organizations. Specifically, the Graduate nurses
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as perspectives of nurses in preventing the
medication administration errors (MAEs) &
applying safety practices. Moreover,
knowledge of these experiences &
perspectives is highly essential for tailoring
medication-safety practices to experienced
barriers as well as facilitators & realizing an
appropriate level of implementation. This has
motivated the researchers to learn more about
the nurses’ experiences and perspectives on
preventing MAEs.
who are new joiners to work area are more
vulnerable in un-supportive work-environments
and with increased risk for medication error.
Hence, they have proposed this study with an
aim as to investigate the effect of work-place
supports as well as relationships on safe
medication practices. .
2. Methods
a. Identify the
research design used
in the study and was
it appropriate for the
Smeulers (2014) has utilized exploratory
research design under qualitative type to
obtain in-depth perspectives in
controlling/preventing MAEs. Qualitative
They have adopted survey based exploratory as
well as descriptive study- design to investigate
the effect of work area supports with relations on
safe medication practices. Sahay (2015) has
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issue discussed? research is a systematic, interactive and
subjective design that is used to describe life
experiences that include disabilities,
discomfort and difficulties and give them a
meaning (Polii, 2016). It promotes the
understanding of ideas, facts, opinions,
motivations and explores the human
experiences (Yin, 2015, Merriam, 2016).
Moreover, qualitative design seems to be
highly effective method than quantitative
design for studies that investigate the
emotional responses of individuals. According
to Grossoehme (2013), it focuses on discovery
and understanding of the subject as a whole
and is consistent with the holistic philosophy of
nursing. Qualitative research usually associate
conducted descriptive study under quantitative
type of a larger sequential mixed methods study.
The text suggests that little information known
about effect of work area supports and
relationships & safe medication errors and many
variables requiring newly framed measures has
motivated them to utilize survey-based
exploratory with descriptive design which is
acceptable (Curtis, 2013). This design has
given the chance to revise new measures and
promote understandings of the variables, as
given by Henly (2016). Quantitative research is a
formal, systematic and objective process in
which numerical data are used to obtain
information (Polit, 2016). This method is
considered as superior to other methods as it aid
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with naturalistic way of inquiry that intends to
analyse the problems of human complexities
by deeply exploring it
This exploratory approach enables
investigating the selected personal experience
in a holistic and in-depth way by using a rich
narrative data. In this study, the researchers
have employed the qualitative exploratory
design through semi- structured interview
technique to explore the experiences and
perspectives of nurses on preventing MAEs
(Smeulers, 2014).
This indicates that the given qualitative
exploratory design is adequate to achieve their
objective and find solutions.
to obtain information, describe variable, examine
relationship between variable and determine
cause and effect interactions between variables.
Therefore, this particular design can address the
medication-based errors and can investigate the
influence of work area supports & relationships
on safe medication practices.
b. Discuss the sampling The researchers have employed purposive According to Grossoehme (2013), the selection
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