Nursing workload and patient safetya human factors engineering perspective
NUR131 The Study of Population
The goal of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of research principles and methods
Part B of the workbook requires you to answer a number of questions related to a research journal article. The orkbook template includes the question areas that MUST be answered for this assessment task.
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Explain the purpose of the study. Use the PICO or PICo format to identify the research question. (150 words) |
The study did not have an intervention since it was an observational study not like in clinical trials. The observational study comprised of the nature of the interruptions on medication during preparation and administration. A standard observation tool was used to record the kind of the intrusion, its source, whether it stopped the medication administration and the nurse had to attend to it, the time taken away from the primary task, and the place of interruption. Comparison
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Discuss the design used in the research. |
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The study used convenience sampling approach to select a sample of two critical care and five medical-surgical units from a public metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney. Before the commencement of the study, the prospective unit nurses were notified by the Unit managers of the expected research during their routine duty. Their consent to participate in the study was obtained in writing by the investigating nurse. A total of 25 nurses at the ward level agreed to be observed while organizing and administering medications to 47 distinguished patients leading to 108 observed interruptions. The patient rooms observed comprised of single and four-bed rooms. Both oral and non-regulated medical preparations were kept in a specific medication trolley, which the nurse moved to the particular bed of the patient or positioned it outside the ward if the patient was placed under isolation. The medication trolley was kept in the corridor adjacent to the nurses’ station when not in use. All medications were held in the preparation room. |
The researchers also obtain ethical approval from the district health services and ethics approval committee. This implies that it complied with the good clinical practice such as the protection of the rights, safety, and well-being of the subjects. Furthermore, the approval is an assurance that the study findings and inferences are credible and accurate, thus can be relied on. The study has also observed the privacy and confidentiality of the nurses or unit managers involved in the research by not mentioning their names or identification numbers in the entire survey (Kaiser, 2009).
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Briefly summarise the results of this study |
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Discuss implications for health professionals practice. (400 words) |
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References
Carayon, P. and Gurses, A.P. (2008) Nursing workload and patient safety—a human factors engineering perspective. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US)
Mandal, J. and Parija, S.C. (2014). Informed consent and research. Tropical parasitology, 4(2), p.78.
Noble, H. and Smith, J. (2015). Issues of validity and reliability in qualitative research. Evidence-Based Nursing, pp.ebnurs-2015.
Westbrook, J.I. and Ampt, A (2009) Design, application and testing of the Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) to measure clinicians’ patterns of work and communication. international journal of medical informatics, 78, pp.S25-S33.
