Research Analysis Homework: Nursing Communication Strategies

This homework assignment requires an analysis of a quantitative research study focused on the communication strategies employed by nurses and their impact on patient health, specifically within an oncology setting. The assignment involves a critical review of the study's purpose, research questions, and hypothesis, which explores the relationship between effective communication and patient recovery rates. The analysis includes an evaluation of the literature review, assessing the currency and sources of the references used. Furthermore, the framework of the study, participant demographics, sampling strategies, and ethical considerations, including IRB approval and participant protection, are examined. The homework also delves into the research design, data collection methods, data analysis techniques, and the study's key findings, limitations, and potential for generalization. The study's intervention, data analysis methods, and results, with a focus on the experiences of nurses with varying levels of experience and education, are also analyzed to determine the study's implications for nursing practice and patient care.

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Purpose of the Study
1. The researcher conducted this study to explore the communication of the nurses
and the literacy of the health of the patient.
2. The problem is significant for the nurses because communication is an important
part of the nursing strategies for providing the patients with quality of care.
Research Question and Hypothesis
1. The research question for this study includes the fact that communication is an
important part of the nursing care and it can help the cancer patients to recover at a faster
rate.
2. The question for the study is “whether communication of nurses can improve health
of the patients or not”
3. The nurses with effective and better communicative strategies can help to improve
the health of the cancer patients
4. The hypothesis is that the improvement of nursing communication strategy can
help in the improvement of the health of the cancer patients.
Literature Review
1. The literature review is carried out by the help of the peer reviewed articles and the
articles from other relevant sources. Thus, the quality of the literature review is better.
2. All the references used by the author is not up-to-date. The references used by the
author is from 2000 to the present year. The references are based on the primary sources.
Framework
1. The study identifies a conceptual framework.

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a) The framework used by the researchers is COMFORT
2. The framework is derived from the nursing discipline.
Participants
1. The study participants were the nurses.
2. The nurses were voluntarily recruited for the survey.
3. The total number of participants in the study is 74.
4. The recruitment strategy for the study was randomized.
5. The researchers determined the sample size by quota sampling as they have
highlighted the various demographic features of the sample.
6. The sample size is 74 and it is adequate to generalize the findings.
7. The sampling bias was minimized in the article by the randomized recruitment of
the participants.
Protection of Human Research Participants
1. The research has not been approved by IRB (institutional review board) or an ethics
review board.
2. The steps that were taken to protect the participants were randomization of the
participants and the blinding of the researchers about the recruitment of the nurses as well as
the results.
Research Design
1. The research design of the study was cross-sectional.
2. Yes, the research design was appropriate for the research study.

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3. Yes, the research design minimized the bias and the threats to the internal construct
and the external validity. The researchers make it a point that the recruitment of the sample is
randomized. The article was reviewed by the independent peer reviewers in order to ensure
that the objective of the research is fulfilled without any bias.
4. Yes an intervention was followed in the study.
a) Before the start of the research study all the nurses were given full course on the
effective communication.
5. No staff was used as such in the research study. Thus, it was not required to train
the staff.
Data Collection
1. The research article used open-ended questions as a search strategy to collect the
data.
2. The dependent variable in the research is the improvement of the health of the
patients and the independent variable is the effective communication.
Data Analysis
1. Inductive content analysis was carried out by the researchers for the analysis of the
collected data.
2. There was no mention of the significant value in the article. However the article
highlights that the nurses who have less experience faces more stress in the communication
with the patient.

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3. The results highlight that the nurses who have less experience and have less
education face more difficulty in the communication with the patients that causes disruption
in the treatment of the patient. Thus, the results are in accordance with the hypotheses.
Results
1. The major findings of the study show that the nurses who have less experience and
less qualification have difficulty in communicating with the patients. The decreased
communication with the patients hampers the health of the patients.
2. The results cannot be generalized by the researchers as the research was based on
the oncology nurses and the findings might vary in the other health settings.
3. Yes, the researchers have highlighted the limitations of the study.
4. As the nurses are the primary advocates for the patients and thus there is a need for
providing the nurses with the required skill can help in the improvement of the patient health.

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References
Wittenberg, E., Ferrell, B., Kanter, E., & Buller, H. (2018). Health Literacy: Exploring
Nursing Challenges to Providing Support and Understanding. Clinical journal of
oncology nursing, 22(1), 53-61.