Sampling Techniques
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Sampling Techniques At the Critical Care Unit, visiting hours are restricted in a guise to allow patients to rest and nurses to provide care in a setting that guarantees modesty and patient privacy. Over the years, though, perceptions have changed and practitioners believe that family presence plays is crucial for improved patient outcomes (Kable, Chenoweth, Pond, & Hullick, 2015). Research, however is necessary to assess whether this new perception is realistic or influenced by certain unrealistic factors. However, further research is always necessary before making such major changes in the healthcare sector. Possibly, nurses are expressing interests in the change without a consideration of the initial factors that were considered when the policy was adopted. Random sampling is necessary to avoid biasness, include all crucial participants, and for certainty of reliable findings (Sawbridge & Hewison, 2013), which is necessary for the evaluation of the validity of the new perceptions before instituting any change is necessary. Since the study ought to capture a diverse group of nurses, patients, and family members, then sampling is appropriate. Researchers will gather information from three samples; nurses, patients, and family members. With a properly structures research question, hypotheses, and questionnaires relevant to the three groups, it will be easy to gather enough data from the three groups. Usually, data collected from a sample during a study is interpreted as a representative of the entire population. Biasness is among the greatest challenges in any study and researchers must devise mechanisms to avoid biasness in any study (Kable, et al., 2015). In this study, a comparison between the data collected from the three samples will suppress the chances of biasness. In addition, all sampled respondents will be selected randomly from respective populations. This study has three populations where researchers will capture the cohort. Researchers will conduct a qualitative type of research based on the nature of the populations of interest. A qualitative research is preferred because it relies on a rich description to inform the understanding of the concepts that contribute towards a broader theoretical conception. Often, a carefully designed qualitative inquiry yields a theoretical generalizability instead of statistical inference. In this specific study, researcher will seek to generalize about a concept, specifically the positive impact of a free visitation policy to the Critical are Unit patients. The intentions of qualitative research are not only to establish a representative sample from a larger population but also to identify groups that possess certain characteristics and are affected by the phenomena being evaluated (Sawbridge & Hewison, 2013). This is preferred for because this study ought to focus on specific nurses, patients, and family members. In any case, the study is mainly focusing on nurses and patients in the Critical Care Unit. In summary, all stakeholders within the healthcare sector appreciate the need for the presence and participation of family in the care process. It is believed to foster faster recovery, improve healthcare safety, and enhance patients and nurses’ satisfaction, particularly in the ICU where patients may be intubated and are not necessarily able to speak. In that case, unrestricted visitation by a support person improves communication, facilitates for better understanding of patients, enhances staff satisfaction, and advances the patient-family centered care (Sawbridge & Hewison, 2013). Whether to restrict visiting hours or keep the door open requires thorough research first. The research ought to capture an unbiased cohort comprised of three categories of respondents; nurses, patients, and family members with patients. This will be achieved with a qualitative type of research with random sampling is proposed for minimum biasness.
References
Kable, A., Chenoweth, L., Pond, D., & Hullick, C. (2015). Health professional perspectives on systems failures in transitional care for patients with dementia and their carers: a qualitative descriptive study. BMC Health Services Research, 87-89.
Sawbridge, Y., & Hewison, A. (2013). Thinking about the emotional labour of nursing - supporting nurses to care. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 127-33.