NURBN 3022 Supplementary assessment task

NURBN 3022 Supplementary assessment task
Student Name and ID
Instructions
Read the article provided and answer the following questions
Q1: What is the methodology described in the paper?
Q2: What data collection tools were utilised for this research project?
Q3: How was the data analysed?
Q4: What was the population / clinical setting and sample size for the study?
1
Answer: In this article, the methodology used was descriptive, correlation and cross-sectional.
The descriptive methodology was used to describe the population and the situation, the
correlation was used to measure the relationships between the variables and the cross-sectional
was used to measure the exposure and outcomes of the population.
Details:
Answer: For this research project, the data collection tools used included self administered
questionnaires, mail survey, postcards and databases from Ministry’s website.
Answer: Data was analysed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) by
distributing the frequency of all variables so as to check the entry errors, outliers and the
missing information. There was also assessment of the normal distributions of the dependent
and independent variables. There was also evaluation of the internal consistency reliability. The
statistics which included the ranges, mean, standard deviations and percentage were then
summarized.
Answer: The population was the nursing faculty and the school dean or director in higher
education schools. The sample size was 169, recruited from 18 nursing programs that had a
minimum of 20 full time nursing faculties and a dean or director who had been in that position
for at least 4 months.