Article Analysis 1: Healthcare Research Assignment - Nursing Studies

This assignment analyzes three healthcare research articles focusing on nursing and healthcare topics. The first article examines the effect of an online educational module on learner self-efficacy, the second explores the relationship between leadership, safety climate, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) on patient safety, and the third investigates the impact of psychological empowerment and job satisfaction on the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and patient care quality. The analysis includes identifying independent and dependent variables, sample populations, sampling methods, descriptive and inferential statistics, and key findings. The articles employ various statistical methods, including t-tests, factor analysis, and regression analysis. The studies aim to improve healthcare practices, patient safety, and the quality of care provided by nurses.

Article Analysis 1
Article Citation
and Permalink
(APA format)
Thompson, R., & George, L. E.
(2016). Preparing new
nurses to address
bullying: The effect of
an online educational
module on learner
self-efficacy. Medsurg
Nursing, 25(6), 412.
Link:
https://www.healthyworkforc
einstitute.com/wp-content/u
ploads/2017/01/Preparing-
New-Nurses_AMSN.pdf
McFadden, K. L., Stock, G. N., & Gowen
III, C. R. (2015). Leadership, safety
climate, and continuous quality
improvement: impact on process
quality and patient safety. Health
care management review, 40(1),
24-34.
.
.
Link:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicati
on/260288341_Leadership_Safety_Clima
te_and_CQI_Impact_on_Process_Quality
_and_Patient_Safety
Bonias, D., Bartram, T., Leggat, S. G., &
Stanton, P. (2010). Does
psychological empowerment
mediate the relationship
between high performance
work systems and patient care
quality in hospitals?. Asia
Pacific Journal of Human
Resources, 48(3), 319-337.
Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
pubmed/20844360
Point Description Description Description
Broad Topic
Area/Title
The aim of this study was to
examine the effect of an
online educational module on
learner self-efficacy
The aim of the study was to shows how
transformational leadership, safety
climate, and continuous
quality improvement (CQI) initiatives are
related to objective quality and patient
safety outcome measures
The aim of the study was to examine
the effect of psychological
empowerment and job satisfaction on
the relationship between high-
performance work systems (HPWS)
and nurses' perceptions of the quality
of patient care they provide
Identify
Independent and
Independent: pre-adapted Independent: There were two
independent variables: TFL (ordinal scale
Independent: There were two
independent variables, i.e.,

Dependent
Variables and
Type of Data for
the Variables
GSES (ordinal scale 1-4)
Dependent: post-adapted
GSES(ordinal scale 1-4)
1-5) and climate safety (ordinal scale 1-
6)
Dependent: CQI (continuous data)
perceptions (ordinal scale 1-5) and
psychological empowerment (ordinal
scale 1-5)
Dependent: patient satisfaction
(ordinal scale 1-5)
The population of
Interest for the
Study
Nursing students enrolled in
college in western
Pennsylvania.
The data was collected amongst
different small Hospitals.
Employees from the different ranks
level and functional groups within a
regional health service were used to
conduct the study. The functional
groups included: the management and
the administration, the medical
services, i.e., nursing, clinical and non-
clinical services.
Sample Out of the total number of
volunteers, only 50 students
were involved in the study
because they met the study
criteria.
Out of the 50 students who
took part in the study, only 40
completed the study
Out of the total students who
completed the study, only 4
completed pre-test only
205 hospitals were involved in the study.
The data was collected from all these
205 schools. Later the data were
sampled until the required samples were
obtained
A total of 1700 staffs were involved in
the study
Of the 1700 staffs who participated in
the study, only 541 useable responses
were accepted to be used to conduct
the study.
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Out of the total students who
were invited to volunteer in
the study, only 6 refused to
participate
Sampling Method A student volunteered to take
part in the study, but only
those who met the study
criteria were allowed to
participate in the research
Multistage sampling method was
applied. The obtained samples were
merged and reduced to obtain the
desired information.
Multistage sampling. Out of 1700
staffs, only 541 useable samples were
selected
Descriptive
Statistics (Mean,
Median, Mode;
Standard
Deviation)
Identify examples
of descriptive
statistics in the
article.
Pre-scores statistics: The
mean was obtained to be
29.6, and the standard
deviation was obtained to be
3.6
Post-scores statistics: The
mean was obtained to be
32.1, and the standard
deviation was obtained to be
3.7.
TFL statistics: The mean was obtained to
be 3.34, and the standard deviation was
obtained to be 0.69
Climate change statistics: The mean was
obtained to be 3.96, and the standard
deviation was obtained to be 0.72
CQI statistics: The mean was obtained to
be 3.8, and the standard deviation was
obtained to be 0.84
Patient satisfaction: The mean was
obtained to be 70.1, and the standard
deviation was obtained to be 9.49
Perception score: The mean was
obtained to be 125.91, and the
standard deviation was obtained to be
27.85
Psychological empowerment: The
mean was obtained to be 46.59, and
the standard deviation was obtained
to be 6.98
Inferential
Statistics
Identify examples
of inferential
statistics in the
A t-test was carried, and it
showed that the post-scores
were significantly higher than
the pre-scores with p<0.001.
The factors analysis method was used:
All the factor loading that were used, i.e.
TFL and climate change on CQI were
significant and had a range of 0.52 – 0.89
The inferential statistics used was
regression analysis: competence had
predicted that the quality of patient
care, i.e. patient satisfaction (beta <
0.22, p < 0.001and HPWS was found
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article. to be a non-significant beta weight in
both regressions
(betta < 0.02, p < ns)
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