School of Health Nursing & Midwifery
Assessment Title Page

Title Page Information | Module Code | NURS09189 | Module Title | Research Evidence and Practice | Assessment wordage (if applicable) | 3,000 word assignment – no more than 3,300 words | Submission deadline (Date and Time)**The assessment must be submitted prior to this deadline to avoid penalty | Date: 11th December 2015Time: 9am(If the submission is via drop box, the time must be 9am) |

To be completed by the student prior to submitting assessment | Assessment Title- please specify the question you have chosen | People experience distress in different ways and so attempting to measure it Is pointless | Banner ID number(this is an 8 digit number, preceded by the letter ‘B’, e.g. B00123456) | B00188060 | Have you been granted a formal extension? | YES Audrey Cund Revised submission deadline for extension: 18th DEC 15 |

Contents page

Page 2 Introduction
Page 3 Literature search
Page 5 Critical Appraisal of a Quantitative Study
Page 8 Critical Appraisal of a Qualitative Research Study
Page 10 Conclusion
Page 12 Appendix 1
Page 15 Appendix 2
Page 18 Appendix 3
Page 21 References

Critical Appraisal of Quantitative and Qualitative Nursing Research

Introduction

Contemporary nursing continues to not only strive for evidence based practice, which according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2008 Code of Performance and Ethics should be part of nurse’s professional responsibilities but the nursing profession should look to develop this knowledge further. Nursing research allows nurses to develop critical and questioning skills which identify the strengths and weaknesses of the research findings or to establish if any further research is required (Le May and Holmes, 2012).
This assessment will be focusing on critically appraising a quantitative and