COURSE:

NR505NP – Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Preparing the Assignment

• Reflection: write 1-2 paragraphs reflecting on your learning for the week. Guiding questions are provided or you may write about what you felt was most significant to you for the week.
  • How hard was it to find a qualitative article related to your area of interest?
  • Did you have any difficult determining whether the articles you reviewed were qualitative?
  • Is the qualitative approach appropriate for your area of interest? Would you be able to replicate the study you found?
  • Overall, which research design (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) do you feel is best suited to your area of interest?

Solution

Finding a quantitative paper relevant to my research interests was relatively easy. After utilizing the database search function, I had to be cautious in deciding whether an article was quantitative. When I looked for this article, I included “quantitative” in the title. Despite this……………………$3