The proposed qualitative question for the desired research project is;
What are the different factors that hinder the transfer of clinical skills among nursing students?
According to Creswell (2014), “Narrative Approach” follows a set of
in-depth interviews to study the lives of different individuals.
Consequently, the identified information leads to the development of
different themes, words and illustrates the stories. Therefore, this
research question will be investigated under narrative qualitative
research design. Furthermore, the research approach will follow in-depth
semi-structured interviews because an in depth one-to-one interview
between the researcher and the respondent allows the researcher to ask
many questions from the participants to collect information (Zikmund et
al., 2013). According to Mathew & Ross (2010), strengths of
in-depth interview are; to follow common questions introduction of
interview questions in different ways or orders as necessary, and to
allow the interviewee to answer the questions in their own way using
their words (story telling) Whereas the disadvantages of in-depth
interviews are; they can be very time-consuming: setting up,
interviewing, transcribing, analysing, feedback, reporting they can be
costly, different interviewers may understand and transcribe interviews
in different ways.
In the field of nursing discipline, emerging technologies are
changing the nursing practices; such as genetics and genomics; less
invasive and more accurate tools for diagnosis and treatment; 3D
printing; robotics; biometrics; electronic health records; and
computerized physician/provider order entry and clinical decision
support (CPOE). However, with these changing technologies, it is
important that nurses should have the competencies to implement these
technologies. For instance, nurses may lack competence towards genomes
and genetics, competencies to use less invasive tools and 3D printing,
the use of robotics to increase patient care, and the appropriate use of
CPOE to support clinical decision making and provide best practices
(Huston, 2013). Whereas the use of mixed methods, that is, both
quantitative and qualitative methods will be significant to investigate
into the role of emerging technologies within the nursing practice.
Because this method have the following set of advantages and both the
methods will complement each other in the following manner; the
strengths of one approach offset the weaknesses of the other, sed
properly, a combination of methods provides more comprehensive and
convincing evidence, mixed methods research can answer certain research
questions that a single method approach cannot, a mixed method study can
encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, mixed methods encourage the
use of multiple worldviews/paradigms, mixed methods research is
“practical” in that it permits the usage of multiple techniques and
approaches that best address the research question (Guest & Fleming,
2015).
However, mixed methods have the following set of disadvantages and
these will lead to challenges within the identified clinical problem;
The research design can be very complex, takes much more time and
resources to plan and implement this type of research, it may be
difficult to plan and implement one method by drawing on the findings of
another, it may be unclear how to resolve discrepancies that arise in
the interpretation of the findings (Guest & Fleming, 2015). Keeping
in view the strengths of mixed methods, qualitative methods can
identify the set of current factors that contribute within the role of
emerging technologies. Whereas with the use quantitative methods the
level and the effect of these identified variables (factors) can be
measured. And the results will be generalized for future use.
2) Lissette Duarte:
Prevention of Postpartum Smoking Relapse
Qualitative method is explorative in nature and seeks to understand
the underlying reasons, motivations and opinions. Based on this, my
research question would be as follows:
Research Question: What makes women who have stopped smoking during pregnancy want to smoke again?
A qualitative research method that can be used in collecting
information on this research question is questionnaires (open ended
questionnaires). Questionnaires can be done through asking questions to
respondents. This can be in form of a short feedback form typed in a
paper or sent to participants through the email. Based on this, one
advantage that questionnaire as a research method would have is by being
cost effective. However, this depends on the way it will be
administered. A remotely administered questionnaire via mobile devices
or emails will be less expensive than ones that require travelling to
administer it. Questionnaires, on the other hand, have their drawbacks.
Respondents may not have something to encourage them to participate or
even provide honest answers. Given that questions asked may be too much
of a personal life, respondents may feel uncomfortable answering them.
Mixed method integrates both qualitative and quantitative research
methods. Mixed method can be used with a population that is hard to find
respondents and as such it becomes important to collect information in
all means possible. A good example of this is pain management among
American Indians. Mixed method is a great way of researching this topic
given that there is a very small number of American Indians who visit
health cares and the possibility of racial misclassification is high
(Muncey, 2009). The research will be aided by advantages of mixed
methods and will overcome weaknesses of each method. Strengths and
weaknesses for qualitative methods include generalizability and used for
large sample size while those of qualitative methods include in-depth
research and small sample size. Quantitative data collected at a
national level is analyzed together with qualitative data collected at
an individual level (Muncey, 2009). In so doing, the weakness of one
method is solved by the strength of the other.
Mixed methods presents challenges that are not there with tradition
approaches. One of the challenges is that it would require twice the
work to collect and analyze data. This is because both methods are
applied which takes more time and resources. There is also complications
that comes with the use of mixed method when it comes to collecting and
analyzing data (Burrows & Read, 2015). This is especially where it
comes to combining data from qualitative and quantitative research.
3) Proffesor Jorge:
Great approach, how would your questions and strengths change if you were to perform the same study using a different method?
