Goal: You will critically appraise a research design Content Requirements:  You will select one research report with a qualitative design and one with quantitative design and answer the following questions regarding the following categories: Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative Research Briefly, describe the characteristics of qualitative research and identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a qualitative research approach. Compare and contrast three different qualitative research methodologies. Briefly, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research evidence for informing nursing practice. Communicate how this research design used in research. The study, sampling, data collection, analysis, rigor, findings and limitations Identify the purpose of the study. Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose. Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed. Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used. Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research. Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study. Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study. Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged. Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.  Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations. Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing. Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research - Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references): Describe the characteristics of quantitative research. Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement. Communicate how this research design used in research. Critique the Quantitative Research Report - Use the following headings to guide your critique (in all discussions and explanations give reasons for your argument and support with references): The study Identify the purpose and design of the study. Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’ and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the study. Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed. Sampling Explain the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used. Discuss how the sample size was determined – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used. Data collection Briefly, outline how the data was collected and identify any data collection instrument(s). Define the terms validity and reliability and discuss how the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not addressed in this study and why this is important. Data analysis Outline how the data were analyzed. Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement of the data described by each statistical test – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used. Findings and limitations Briefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of the study Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an explanation of the term statistical significance and name the tests of statistical significance used in this study.

Choose a disease that is impacted and possibly controlled by nutrition.   Together develop a power point that reviews the following:  Brief overview of the selected disease. How does nutrition relate to the disease process? Include basic nutrition facts.

The St. Fleur family is well respected in the Haitian community because they are religious with great moral values. They moved to the United States because of political issues in Haiti. Ronald, the youngest son of this family, is 27 years old and lives at home with his mother and father. Recently, he began having fevers and subsequently developed pneumonia. He was admitted to the hospital, where laboratory tests were HIV positive. Ronald was in shock when the doctor informed him that he was HIV positive. He confessed to the doctor that he was gay, but he could not tell his family. He said that he did not want to bring shame to the family. Because he couldn’t be in a formal relationship disowning to his family and the Haitian community’s view of homosexuality, he has been very promiscuous over the years. What are Haitians’ views of homosexuality? If Ronald’s parents were to learn of his positive HIV status, how might they react if they are religious and traditional? Identify three major culturally congruent strategies a healthcare provider can implement to address HIV prevention practices in the Haitian community? 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources