nurse to research synthesize evidence in the workplace? According to (Kirkevold, 1997, p. 979) it is difficult for clinical nurses to read the various research reports as well as critique them in order to find the importance of each of the reports. 2. After analyzing through various research how we as nurses can ensure the knowledge we access and apply is the best available for our patients? In order for nursing knowledge to be helpful it needs to contain relative knowledge from varying research studies
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Critique 1 Erickson et al., (2009) In the National Institute Of Health (2009) article “Aerobic Fitness is Associated With Hippocampal Volume in Elderly Humans” authors Kirk Erikson et al., illustrates how hippocampal decay occurs in elderly persons with or without dementia. However, the degree of decay is based on an individual level. The paper discusses factors that can contribute to prevention of decay through lifestyle changes. With an elderly individual exercise is the key factor in reducing
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124 References Journal of Asian and African Studies 47(1) Albert M (2006) Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism. Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing. Gillem AR, Cohn LR and Throne C (2001) Black identity in biracial black/white people: A comparison of Jacqueline who refuses to be exclusively black and Adolphus who wishes he were. Cultural diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 7: 182–196. Issa G Shivji, Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa. Nairobi and Oxford:
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181-207. doi:10.1080/03050068.2011.553935 Miller-Idriss examines the extreme increase in the number of cross-border higher education institutions, specifically in the Middle East. She states that of the 100 such institutions at the time of her research, over one-third are located in this region. Her paper presents the reasons behind the expansion, including a look at cultural, political, and economical components that impact education, definitions of the types of institutions, statistical information
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Scaling Study RES/320 Dr. Jeffrey Putnam Scaling Study Developing and conducting a survey is a very technical process. Any researcher that takes on a process like this must be careful to develop proper and appropriate questions for the survey to collect the most valid and reliable data. Conducting and presenting the survey is just as crucial as the creation of the questions. If either of these areas is neglected or not handled appropriately the entire research process is wasted. The purpose
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"Regulatory techniques in consumer protection: A critique of European consumer contract law." by Bar-Gill, Oren, and Omri Ben-Shahar. Introduction This is an excellent analysis of the consumer protection techniques provided under The Draft of Common European Sales Law (CESL), (2013). The critique of these techniques is well done, as the techniques are properly criticized by the authors in the discussion. The responses by the authors are astute and serve a very well way to highlight creative ways
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Article Critique The article that I chose was about a study designed to examine the relationship between watching social aggression on television and the use of social aggression in everyday life. Social aggression is a type of non-physical aggression by which people use verbal or non-verbal actions to damage another’s self-esteem or social status. Martins and Wilson formed a study that involved 500 students from two different schools located in the same county, kindergarten
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perspective has the whole picture. All accounts of the world are partial and biased from a particular understanding of how we are human and what society is. Such-and-such a view is only the case under certain conditions. A prime purpose for an essay is to critique particular ideas, pointing out how explanation A might be more useful and valid than B in these circumstances. In the conclusion of your essay, on the other hand, you might want to point out that in other contexts (social, cultural, eras, etc.) there
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ENRON CASE STUDY Title of the Article: * The first article of critique, talks about the ethical cultures and values of Enron and how this values and credence contributed to the collapse of this once corporate giants (Li, 2010). * Enron failures, the who, the how, and the why, that contributed to malpractices of its business practices (Gudikunst, 2006). Purpose of Research: The purpose of the first article of research is to depict the ethical views and practices of Enron’s Executives
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his is a critique study on “effects of nursing rounds on patients’ call light use, satisfaction, and safety by Christine Meade, PHD, Amy Bursell, PHD and Lyn Ketelsen MBA,RN(2006)”outline as quasi-experimental research design. The author states in this article about patient’s frequent usage of call light in the hospital. Frequent call light usage seems to be an ongoing problem in the hospital setting. This study was to determine how to reduce the call light use and burn out staff, also increase
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