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Research Foundations for Health PracticePurpose of the Study: Identifying the Research Question using the PICO format.A research question that is well formulated needs extreme preciseness and specificity that guides the implementation of the project. The PICO (Population, Intervention, Control and Outcomes) format provides a strategy for framing a ‘foreground’ research question [ CITATION Leu16 \l 1033 ].Population or problem: seeks to address a specific population, demographic information and itskey characteristics. From the case, I can identify the nursing population in medical andadministrative capacities.Intervention: In this case, the intervention is explaining ways of managing interruptions onmedical errors in hospitals.Comparator or control: an existing therapy is compared to a new one.Outcome: The outcome in this case is averting interruptions. Therefore, the research questioncan be formulated as follows; Among nurses (P), is managed interruptions (I) effective in addressing medical errors (O) ascompared to risking its impacts (C)?Discussion of the Research DesignResearch design is the overall strategy that is used to integrate the various study components in acoherent and logical manner [ CITATION Des16 \l 1033 ]. The study adopted a non-participantobservational method for nurses conducting rounds of medication to collect data. However, thismethod is more of being passive than actively being involved in the exercise. It therefore meansthat the information obtained is unlikely to be reliable owing to this shortcoming of the non-participant observational method. The comparison of data collection methods with other works2
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Research Foundations for Health Practiceon a theoretical basis is also questionable. This is because such methods are likely to be outdated.Choosing only two clinical units for the study presents a limited scope for obtaining the relevantinformation. The methods used to measure the outcomes of the study do not have a completelyquantifiable approach. In analyzing the numeric data, the researchers used IBM SPSS statistics. Sampling and Recruitment Procedures used in the Research.Sampling is defined as the process of selecting units; representative portion from a population of interest in a research context [ CITATION Lan16 \l 1033 ]. The study used a non-participant method of observational study and convenience sample. It was made up of two clinical units and five units of medical surgery. Their recruitment was done within a vast metropolitan teaching hospital. A total of 56 medication events were observed. The patient rooms used in the study were single and four-bed oriented. I am dissatisfied that more relevant and wide data were left out by the fact that only two units were involved in the study research. The study was also conducted in only one hospital setting that would probably not reflect the actual picture of the interruptions witnessed in the administration of medication by nurses. Expansive and more relevant information would have enabled the reader of the article to form an objective opinion regarding the impact of interruptions on medication errors and viable ways of managing them. For a good research, there is need to use the most viable sampling and recruitment procedures as dictated by the context of the study.Discussion of the Ethical Considerations Ethical considerations are perceived as critical in every research study [ CITATION Oad18 \l 1033 ].These are the standards or norms that define conduct and distinguishes between wrong and right.The ethical standards seek to prevent falsifying or fabrication of data in an effort to promote the3
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