Critique of Research Papers on Nurses' Attitudes towards HIV Patients

1. INTRODUCTION
Evidence based practice means that clinicians are using producers that have been
study carefully and those results have been review and published (Logemann, 2000). The
purpose of this assignment is to review and evaluate about the research article. I have
chosen one qualitative research paper and two quantitative research paper that is about a
qualitative study of nurses’ view upon caring for patients with HIV in Colombia. For the
quantitative research paper 1 are The attitudes, concerns, gloving practices and
knowledge of nurses in a Taiwanese hospital regarding AIDS and HIV and for research
paper 2 are Knowledge and attitudes of registered nurses towards HIV-positive patients
in a rural under-resourced hospital. By exploring the information, it can help to
understand better about HIV and will provide quality care for further improvement in the
clinical setting. The aim of doing this research critique is to evaluate the strength and
limitations of the research article. The objectives are to discuss the research process and
to analyze the quality of the research information. It is one of the concerning matter that
HIV patients doesn't get treated like a typical patients. These patients are one that gets
isolation and criticism from society even from their own parental figures here and there.
In these examination papers, the point is to discover the states of mind of medical
caretaker assistants towards their HIV patients and whether or not they are influenced by
their surrounding and preconception; then if they help support the discrimination and
stigmatization made towards the patients.

2. CONTENT
For the three research paper, the title is brief however it is comprehensive, truthful and
straightforward where the researchers are also clearly indicates what the purpose of the study
was and defines the focus of the studied paper. Which in this research paper the tittle are
medium long and easy to understand. It been mentioned that if the title are too long or too
short it could give confusing or misleading, (Prahoo, 2006). Because, since it is difficult to
divine the information from the title alone, it would be better if the title is clear and it can
help the reader to identify the type of research study. Name of the author and their
qualification are stated in the paper and most of them have relevant professions and the
qualifications which are related to the research study. It is been mention that the authors’
qualifications and job title can be a useful in the researchers’, (Conkin, 2005).
2.1 “A qualitative study of nurses’ view upon caring for patients with HIV in
Colombia”
The summary of this paper, it's expressed that in 2014, 1.2 million individuals passed on
from HIV related causes the world over. Colombia rank second range in HIV commonness in
Latin America and the quantity of individuals tainted with HIV in Colombia increments. One
reason for the expansion is the stigmatization and discrimination patients incorporate with HIV
that exists. Attendants are people, impacted by their convictions and environment, with
individual convictions and previously established inclinations and May, if not monitoring
proposals bias and personals convictions, help supporting demonization and segregation. The
point of this review was to portray how Colombian medical caretakers see after nurturing
patients with HIV. Three subjects rises up out of this examination, is Nurses’ reflection on

attitudes towards HIV, The role of and responsibilities of a nurse and Thoughts regarding the
patients, the disease and the profession.
For the strength, the authors acknowledge all the possible factors that may affect their
research paper result of their interviews, where, the data is collected through interviews, focus
group, questionnaire or observations and it’s was collected through semi structured interviews
with six Colombian nurses, their aim is to let the participants speak narratively and free about
experience and views on situations using their own word.The Paper is easy to understand and
they provide relevance information to the research paper the paper also concluded in a table
form. The author used a Simple English and explained fully any complicated sentences. The
limitations for this paper is the used of words and sentences are redundant and the result of the
research are less reliable as it was affected example the gender interview was biased which all
participant were woman and where majority of the patients that sign up the studies were men.
Also restricted location to performed interview where they only interview at one university in the
capital of Colombia and lastly some of the references are in mixed language which in English
and Cambodian language, some been translated and some are not.
This paper studied by Hanna Johansson & Maria Wallen, from Bachelor of Science in
nursing.