Critique Articles for Evidence Based Practice in Nursing

Running head: CRITIQUE ARTICLES
CRITIQUE ARTICLES
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Introduction:
Evidence based practice utilises the skills of decision making and critical thinking in
the practice through the use of evidence from critically assessed research to determine the
appropriateness of the practice that has been applied in the clinical situation (Hall & Roussel,
2016). The assignment aims to critique a journal article in order to determine whether the
evidences are effective enough to use in the nursing practice. The chosen article for the
assignment is No one said he was dying: Families' experiences of end-of-life care in an acute
setting by Odgers et al. (2018, p. 21). The following paper will utilise the systematic
approach in order to analyse various components of the article such as author information,
abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology, result, discussion, limitation and
conclusion to identify the relevance of the evidence in clinical practice.
Critique of the article:
Title and author information:
The evaluation of the title and author information with the systematic critique
framework would help to determine the qualification of the authors and identify whether the
article is peer reviewed or not. An appropriate title is defined as the title that helps the reader
to assume the content of the paper and informs about the variable of interest, study population
and study design (Cals & Kotz, 2013, p. 585). The title of the article is not descriptive enough
and does not inform about the study design, however, it does inform about the focus of the
study that is experience of families during end-of-care in a acute setting and the population of
the study that is families of patient depends on end-of-care facility (Odgers et al., 2018, p.
21).

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The article is peer reviewed and has four authors. Study has indicated that the authors
of the article should have adequate academic qualifications to relate their professional ground
with the research. The qualification of the authors has been provided in the first page and all
of them are well qualified in nursing (Odgers et al., 2018, p. 21). Thus, it can be said that the
article is published by a reputable journal that is the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
and quality is also good as all of the authors are qualified enough.
Abstract:
An appropriate abstract should provide the readers the summary of the overall
research and introduce the key components of the study (Cals & Kotz, 2013, p. 585). The
abstract of the selected article is well structured with clear aim and conclusion and informed
that qualitative method has been used in the study. Thus, the abstract has helped to determine
whether the study is relevant or not (Odgers et al., 2018, p. 21). Hence, it can be said that the
article has provided a proper abstract.
Introduction and background:
An appropriate introduction should inform about the topic of the research briefly and
mention the rational of the work as well. In addition introduction of a study should provide
context about the purpose or objective of the study (Gastel & Day, 2016). In the selected
article the introduction contains a brief discussion about end life care and trends of end-life-
care in Australia. In-depth information about the research objective has been provided in the
introduction and rational for the study such as less examination of the quality of life in end-
of-life care, experience of the nurses and family and lack of research on end-of-life care is
also mentioned. There is no specific part of literature review in the study, however, the
background of the study such as importance of acute care during end-of-life situation, quality
o end-of-life, experience of nurses, patients and their family in such situation, adequate data,

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focus of the policy and program developers and need for the research has been mentioned in
the introduction (Odgers et al., 2018, p. 21). Such information has helped the readers to
understand the significance of the study.
Methodology:
In order to conduct a research it is important to select appropriate method to address
the research objectives. Qualitative method is one of the most effective method to conduct a
research. Lewis (2015, pp. 473-475) has reported that qualitative research is allowed for in-
depth interview, case study analysis, ethnographic research and content analysis as well. In
this selected article the researchers have used qualitative method including semi-structured
interview. As the study has focused to evaluate the experience of the nurses and families of
the patients during end-of-life care it is important to observe and understand their view. In
this regards semi-structured interview is appropriate as it could help to inquire the experience
effectively. The study setting was mentioned properly that is regional health service in
Victoria, Australia (Odgers et al., 2018, p. 21). In order to conduct interview for research it is
important to inform the participants about the importance of the research and take their
consent regarding the recruitment. Ethical consideration is another important aspect of
research as it helps to avoid ethical, legal, political or social issues (Faden et al., 2013, pp.
S16-S27). In this regards the study has invited the participants and selected them according to
the inclusion criteria. In addition, ethical consideration has been taken from the Health
Service Human Research ethics Committees (Odgers et al., 2018, p. 21). Thus, it can be said
that, the study has used effective methodology to represent the result.
Data collection:
In a research paper it is important to describe the in-depth data collection process,
nature of the data such as primary or secondary. Limitation or barriers in the data collection