Abstract
Skagerström, J., Ericsson, C., Nilsen, P., Ekstedt, M., & Schildmeijer, K. (2017). Patient involvement for improved patient safety: a qualitative study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences. Nursing Open, 4(4), 230-239. Web.
Solvik, E., & Struksnes, S. (2018). Training nursing skills: A quantitative study of nursing students’ experiences before and after clinical practice. Nursing Research and Practice, (10), 1-9. Web.
Currently, there are many valuable sources written on the topic of nursing. All these studies can be divided into qualitative and quantitative. This division occurs depending on the data that is analyzed and interpreted to obtain answers to the questions posed by scientists. This scientific paper aims to study qualitative and quantitative research to gain a better understanding of the differences between these two types. Examples of scientific work were “Patient involvement for improved patient safety” and “Training nursing skills”. To do this, the goals and hypotheses of each of the works, the sample population and the venue were investigated. Moreover, the information for the conclusion was selected from the results and findings sections, where the main conclusions of each study were summarized.
“Patient Involvement for Improved Patient Safety”
This study is a scientific descriptive, quantitative work with elements of clinical trials. The main goal was “to ensure that nursing students who enter clinical practice in community healthcare settings have the proper defensible knowledge and practical skills required to take care of patients in a safe manner” (Solvik & Struksnes, 2018, p. 2). Consequently, several items were singled out, which also had to be analyzed. So, these indicators were to study the students’ degree of satisfaction with the learning session’s organization and relevance before and after practice, compare their perception, also take into account age and already existing experience. In addition, interest was placed on examining the presence of correlations between the perceptions before and after the clinical practice period. The hypothesis of the scientific paper was that nursing education is inadequate in preparing students for practice and can cause such negative consequences as professional burnout and early dismissal.
The sample population consisted of 160 students in their first year of the bachelor’s program who were randomly divided into two groups. The study was conducted in Norway and was approved by the Norwegian Social Data Services (NSD) (Solvik & Struksnes, 2018). The research findings showed that students did not find training sessions to be as valuable as preparation before clinical practice. Moreover, many people thought that clinical laboratory practice was an excellent way to prepare for the internship.
“Training Nursing Skills”
This study is qualitative and applies a standardized approach and the use of specially prepared open-ended interviews. The central hypothesis of the work was the study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences of patient involvement relevant to patient safety (Skagerström et al., 2017). The study was set in Sweden and used a heterogeneous sample of nurses working in different healthcare facilities, with patients with various problems, diagnoses, length of stay in a medical institution, and age group. All attended nineteen nurses, of which eleven were registered nurses, and eight were nurse assistants.
During the research and analysis of the information received from respondents, several categories of patient involvement for enhanced patient safety were identified. Among them, various methods that were used by nurses and patients themselves in the process of providing clinical care and obstacles that may arise in this process were highlighted. In addition, the relevance of patient involvement for safer care was highlighted (Skagerström et al., 2017). Thus, the findings of the conducted scientific work show that nurses expressed a positive attitude to patient involvement. Moreover, many of them believed that such an attitude has a direct contribution to the way care is provided. At the same time, it is essential to emphasize that patient involvement cannot arise by itself since this process consists of the joint responsibility and work of both sides of the healthcare sector.
References
Skagerström, J., Ericsson, C., Nilsen, P., Ekstedt, M., & Schildmeijer, K. (2017). Patient involvement for improved patient safety: a qualitative study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences. Nursing Open, 4(4), 230-239. Web.
Solvik, E., & Struksnes, S. (2018). Training nursing skills: A quantitative study of nursing students’ experiences before and after clinical practice. Nursing Research and Practice, (10), 1-9. Web.