New Nursing and Midwifery Graduates' Uptake of Social Media - Study Critique

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Specific critique area Answer
Explain the purpose of the study. Use
the PICO or PICo format to identify the
research question.
(150 words)
Problem: The problem of the study is the significant rise in the usage of the social media among the
new nursing and midwifery graduates of Australia and New Zealand. This becomes critical at times
when they are observed to operate the social media platforms inside their workplaces during the duty
hours.
Intervention: The intervention will be to describe the uptake patterns of the social media by the new
nursing and the midwifery graduates of Australia and New Zealand and communicate them
regarding the impact it has on the operations of them.
Comparison: The comparison will measure the awareness that the policies or the professional
standards which are governing the usage of the social media of the new nursing and the midwifery
graduates of Australia and New Zealand inside the boundary of their professions, are able to
establish.
Outcome: There are two outcomes that the study is expected to produce. The first one is the
portrayal of the spectrum of usage of social media and the measurement of the awareness that the
policies or the personal standards for the purpose of governing the usage of the social media within

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the workplaces, were able to achieve.
Discuss the design used in the research.
(150 words)
The main study includes a sub study of the graduate of E-cohort study where the design of the
research is survey. The main concern of the study was the fact that whether the concerned graduates
are well aware of the implications that the usage of the social media inside the workplaces during the
duty hours and the contribution of the policies or the professional standards in it. In the paper it was
observed that the survey included queries like whether the concerned respondent uses the social
media or not, his or her activity in the social media and the specification of the usage like the
identification of the platforms that they use, the thought of the respondent regarding the usage of the
social media platform that needs to be used and are to be considered as appropriate for the wide
range of purposes which they consider as the field for the probable usage of the social media. Along
with that, the survey also included the questions for the identification of the purposes which are not
appropriate for the usage of the social media and the awareness that the professional standards and
policies for governing the usage of the social media formed by the RNs or RMs in the registered
country is able to achieve.

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Hence it is evident that the design that is used in the study is significantly helpful in achieving all the
goals or objectives of the study as the survey almost questions the respondents in such a manner that
the responses will fill the desired blocks for the study.
The sampling or the study is done in such a manner that it satisfies the validity of the responses.
Identify and explain sampling and
recruitment procedures were in the
research.
(200 words)
The sampling of the respondents for the study was in need to be conducted in such a manner that It
becomes eligible for getting the responses from the individuals who are operational in the sector
which I affected from the usage of the social media, the most. In order to meet the requirement, the
focus of the study was the health care industry which observes a significant detrimental effect of the
excessive usage of the social media. The sampling for the study was observed to include the new
nursing and midwifery graduates of Australia and New Zealand where the respondents were majorly
women and majority of the completed the graduation in the year 2008 and 2009. As the study was
dependent on the new nursing graduates and the midwives of both the nations, the representation of
the respondents from both the nation was observed to be almost equal. 54% of the sampled
individuals were from Australia and the other 46% were belonging to New Zealand. Apart from that,
the information regarding the respondents like employment status, the status of the organization in
which the participants are operating and the country of the employment were also considered during