Nursing Research

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Health Medical

NSG 6101

South University Online

Description

Begin your discussion by sharing your problem statement and research question. Next, discuss your sampling plan. In addition, discuss your research design. Consider the following as you craft your response.

Sampling

  • How will the sample be selected?
  • What type of sampling method is used? Is it appropriate to the design?
  • Does the sample reflect the population as identified in the problem or purpose statement?
  • Is the sample size appropriate? Why or why not?
  • To what population may the findings be generalized? What are the limitations in generalizability?

Research design

  • What type of design will be used?
  • Does the design seem to flow from the proposed research problem, theoretical framework, literature review, and hypothesis?

Below you will find my problem statement and research question. APA and sources can be no older than 2013.


With the climate today in healthcare, hospitals must seek other ways to cut costs. Staffing tends to be the first area of cuts to budgets. However; it has been found that patient safety errors tend to increase when staff is decreased (Frederickson, 2013). Some states have taken it upon themselves to set up maximum patient to staff ratios. These states have seen lower incidents and higher staff satisfaction (Tellez & Ann Seago, 2013).

PROBLEM: Increasing patient to staff ratios also increases safety risks to patients.

RESEARCH PURPOSE: To determine if there is correlation between increased patient to staff ratios and increase in medication errors, treatment errors, falls, cardiac arrests, and deaths.

PIOCT Questions: (P) Do nurses who have higher patient loads (I) make more errors and (O) potentially have worse patient outcomes (C) than nurses who have smaller patient loads (T) over the course of 6 months to 1 year.

References

Frederickson, W. (2013). Nurses Are Exposing the Reality: Patients Are At Risk. Minnesota Nursing Accent, 5-7.

Tellez, M., & Ann Seago, J. (2013). California Nurse Staffing Law and RN Workforce Changes. Nursing Economic$, 18-26.

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Explanation & Answer

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Running Head: NURSING RESEARCH

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Nursing Ratios and Patient Risks
Name:
Institutional affiliation

NURSING RESEARCH

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Problem Statement and Research Question

This research seeks to address the issue of the patient to staff ratio s and its influence to
the safety risks to the patients. With the increasing cost of healthcare, hospital and other health
institutions are turning into reducing the amount of healthcare staff in the facility to help cut cost
(Frederickson, 2013) .Various research findings based on the issue have indicated that reducing
the number of staff to the patient ratio or increasing the patient to staff ratio has head poor health
outcome due to increased patient safety. The aim of this study is to find out whether there is a
correlation between increased patient ratios and increase in the amount treatment errors,
medication errors; patient falls, deaths as well as cardiac arrests. Based on the problem
statement, the research question for the study is, do nurses who experience increased patient
loads end up committing more errors end up potentially having the worst patient outcomes as
compared to the nurses who have fewer patient loads during the course of a period of 6 months
to one year.
Selection of the Sample
The sample of this study will include hospital located in the metropolitan areas and
suburban areas in South Carolina. The research would entail a list of hospitals that on a daily
basis receive an average amount of around 100 -400 patients. The list will entail hospitals in
South Carolin...


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