This paper is going to talk so much about the various principles which are so common to a great extent of quantitative research in nursing. The task of hypothesis of testing is also considered and the estimation of the emphasis. Assured intervals are advocated as a way of assessing both clinical significance and the statistical significance. All this principles and the major ways are going to be discussed by the use of various examples which are taken from the nursing literature. In conclusion, the most problematical situations and the major roles of design are also going to be discussed.
The problem of study for which the study was conducted to resolve is an important one for nurses to explore. It is only after identifying the problem that the nurses will determine the impact of the problem on the individuals in the area of research. The solutions to the problem through research and intensive analysis are made. For our case we will identify one problem of study in nursing that need to be explored.
The effects of nursing and nurturing old members of the family
The purpose of study is an important one as it is the boundary within which the research will be conducted. The kind of questions to be included in questionnaires and those to be answered by the respondents will be targeting to provide answers for the purpose of the study. It is of great importance to have a purpose of study. One of the purposes of our study for the above problem will be to determine the relationship between the elderly persons and their family caretakers. We also move a milestone and look at the reactions of the relatives who are caretakers to the responsibility of nursing the elderly.
A hypothesis is a faint feel proclamation or answer that proposes a likely explanation to an event. A good hypothesis should be able to be tested and at the same time allow prediction. A hypothesis ought not to provide general information as theories. One tests a hypothesis by testing how two variables are related. Sometimes the hypothesis might be stated in a way such that it is referred to as nil hypotheses. A null hypothesis is a hypothesis set to be refuted statistically. It is otherwise taken presumed true until disapproved statistically through hypothesis testing. The following are hypothesis postulated before the research was conducted.
1) Most members of the family might find it a trouble to nurture their elder and bedridden relatives (alternative hypothesis).
2) Many members of the family prefer taking their elderly ailing relatives to the home for the elderly or to hospitals.
3) Many family relatives have no time for their elderly ailing relatives (null hypothesis).
Whereas factors that rely on the others are those that are prone to change in relation to independent variables, independent variables are those that are manipulated by a researcher to cause a change in the dependant variables. Manipulation is usually done deliberately with an aim of inducing a change in the dependent variable. From the above formulated hypothesis can extracted independent and dependent variables. People get information, process it and act on it in the required way many times each day. This sort of dispensation of information is a intangible mode (or mental model) of how things in our surrounding work. This being a research on how relatives view nurturing of their old and ailing members of family, the information acquired was made available in map form. Through the conceptual model interrelations can be drawn from the way people process and interpret various phenomena.
Literature review supports the need for this study. Nurses have to revisit their literature so as to really have a glimpse of what they expect to collect in the field at the tips of their fingers. Through reviewing the literature, they will be able to know how to plan adequately for the study and be able to employ the required statistical tools. It is also through literature that the nurses will equip themselves and quantitatively analyze data collected.
Aging people in the whole world have significant implications for elderly care composition and quality, especially with regard to nurturing provided by nursing homes. The study investigated quality of nursing home care using resident satisfaction and clinical outcomes as indicators. The residents were randomly recruited and by the use of various nursing homes and assessed them at various stages in monthly follow-ups. The results of the nursing home care in the twelve month follow-up time shows great reduction in pressure sores and moderate satisfaction of nurturing home care, but increases in physical fetters and mental loneliness. Study outcome proposes that a lasting home care may uplift resident’s quality of life. However, to achieve this, nurture homes must provide better mental support for residents and decrease the use of physical restraints.
A quantitative analysis shows contradictory ideas and the issues which are not solved concerning the meaning and the use of the concepts, interpretation and procedures. In the first place, nursing is an attempt institutionalized by all societies to accomplish specific wants and demands of persons and groups whereby it seems to be practical instead of being theoretical in nature. On the other hand, this orientation together with the expectation of the society to serve people and various groups both efficiently and effectively, this does not alleviate nursing of the essential right to its practices leading scientific knowledge. Particularly, there is a command for nursing as any kind of discipline inside the clinical life science.
An analysis revealed that this preparation impacted negatively towards employees and patient care. A group of nurse managers was charged with reorganizing the current support structure for nurse managers. The group conducted a study of the present situation and designed a new model called the Michigan Leadership Model comprising both administrative and leadership support positions (Denis & Cheryl, 2007).
Reference
Denis, F. and Cheryl, T. (2007). Nursing foundation: production and evaluating Evidence for Nursing . Lippincott, w. & Wilkins.