Research in Nursing: Quantitative and Qualitative Studies

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Quantitative article: Asadollahi, M., ArshadiBostanabad, M., Jebraili, M., Mahallei, M.,
SeyyedRasooli, A., &Abdolalipour, M. (2015). Nurses' knowledge regarding hand hygiene and
its individual and organizational predictors. Journal of caring sciences, 4(1), 45-53.
doi:10.5681/jcs.2015.005
This article is a quantitative study and a descriptive cross sectional study was conducted
in order to determine the knowledge of the hand hygiene and the individual and the
organizational predictors among the nurses working in the neonatal units.
The sample consisted of 150 nurses working in the neonatal units in the hospitals
affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. A questionnaire was used to have an in-
depth understanding of the knowledge of the participants related to the practice of hand hygiene.
SPSS version 13 was used for the quantitative analysis of the study, independent sample t-test,
one way ANOVA is also used for the descriptive statistical part of the study. As per the findings
it was found that most of the respondents had basic knowledge regarding the hand hygiene.
However, the multivariate analysis was successful in showing the correlation between
participants’ knowledge about hand hygiene and the previous training. Hence, the paper indicates
towards the fact that the infection control committee should focus more on the infection control
guidelines.
Qualitative article: Fakhr-Movahedi, A., Rahnavard, Z., Salsali, M., &Negarandeh, R. (2016).
Exploring Nurse's Communicative Role in Nurse-Patient Relations: A Qualitative Study. Journal
of caring sciences, 5(4), 267-276. doi:10.15171/jcs.2016.028

RESEARCH IN NURSING
This study has employed a qualitative research in order to recognize the communicative
roles of the nurses and how they can impact the quality of care provided to the patient. The
sample of the study consisted of 23 nurses, patients and the families of the patients in the surgical
and the medical ward of a hospital in Tehran, Iran. The data collection method consisted of
observation and semi structured interview.
The primary concept of the data was then obtained from the interview data. The need
based communication category was divided from the two categories- Identification of the needs
of the patients and communicative behaviors in the face of the need of the patient. Identification
of the patient was associated to the ‘type of the problem of the patient, monitoring the health
status of the patients. The communicative behavior in response to the patients’ needs was
categorized to “caring attention”, “informal patient education”.
On a concluding note it can be said that nurse patient relationship is made as per the
needs of the patient.