Nursing Assignment - Drug Calculation Teaching
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0Running head: RESEARCH CRITIQUEResearch critiqueName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
1RESEARCH CRITIQUERESEARCH CRITIQUEIntroduction and Literature review:1.By reviewing the whole article, it has been found that no obscure phrase is present andkey concepts related to the research problem has been adequaetely defined by theresearcher. The research study by Ramjan et al., (2014) clearly mentions the purpose ofresearch, which is to identify strategies that may assist nurse in increasing theircompetency in drug calculation teaching and assessment method. All types of teachingmethods has been clearly explained by means of tabular representation.2.The usefulness of this research is high because it is a newly published article published inthe year 2014, which might give new insights to improve skills and competencies ofregistered nurse. The reliability of the data is high because it is a recent work that hasconsidered recent approaches and teaching methods to improve the competency of nursein drug calculation.3.The key concepts related to factors that might affect the nurse’s ability to conductmathematical calculation for drug dose has been discussed. This was dependent onexperience, age, practice experience and age of nurses. Hence, the researcher highlightedthe research problem, which is the rise in number of preventable medication errors, andneed to prepare nurses to tailor drug calculation teaching. Therefore, the main conceptbehind the research is adequately explained.4.The motivation for the research is understood from the background information related tothe topic that the researcher has discussed in the introduction section. The importance ofnurses competency in drug calculation was seen because patient’s lives depend on thosecalculation. Any error in medication dose can cost lives of patients too. Research design and data analysis:5.Mixed method research approach was used to collect data from 327 female and 63 malenursing students of final year. The same size is adequate for giving reliable results.Secondly, the strategy to select only final year nursing students in the study revealspurposive sampling approach was taken to include participants in the study. Use of
2RESEARCH CRITIQUEpurposive sampling method is a good step by the researcher because it ensures fulfillmentof the goal of research and getting reliable data from those people who experience theissue on a daily basis. It increased the generalizability and reliability of the study too(Etikan, Musa, & Alkassim, 2016). Secondly, many teaching interventions were providedto improve the competency of the researcher. Two surveys were done to collect data-firstwas conducted during the tutorial classes and other was done after hands-on workshop.The use of both Likert scale and qualitative comment in the survey question iscommendable because it will remove all possibilities of getting ambiguous data. Theresearcher also followed the ethical consideration that is required before conducting theresearch which further increased the viability of the research article.6.The use of SPSS tool and use of excel spreadsheet for manually analyzing theme gives anindication that data analysis is rigorous enough to effectively analyze both qualitative andquantitative data. The illustration of the TGP flow chart of process and intervention also makesall the research method clear. This method is considered reliable to get all answers to theresearch question. The same cross sectional mixed method survey design was also applied byFleming, Brady & Malone, (2014) to investigate nurse’s competency in drug calculation.However, in case of randomized controlled study, multiple choice test related drug dosecalculation was considered to evaluate competency of the nurse (Simonsen et al., 2014). In the study by Ramjan et al., (2014), the main findings was that association was foundbetween nurse’s numeracy skills performance and the remedial support sessions. Secondly, theevaluation of nurse’s perception regarding tailored intervention revealed that nurses found theonline practice quiz useful because of its clinical relevance. On the whole, it can be stated thatresults presented was relevant to the research question and the table based response for statisticaland qualitative numeracy skills performance promoted analysis of the data in much lesser time.While comparing the above article with other two article related to the same topic, it hasbeen found that the first article gave more extensive numerical data related to scores of nurse inmetric conversion, tablet dosage, fluid dosage, drip rate and total drug test scores (Fleming,Brady & Malone, 2014). Although this is advantageous for evaluating the effectiveness of drugtest for improving the competency of nurse, however the evaluation of numerous other
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