Critical Care Nurses

Question: Explain Critical care nurses experience of grief in an adult intensive care unit. Answer: Nursing The critique research paper belongs to Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) which is a peer-reviewed journal providing advanced research data on healthcare, midwifery and evidence-based nursing practice. The first author Louise Caroline Stayt (Bsc, Msc, RN) is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Skills at School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Swindon, UK. The second author Melanie Shorter is a Staff Nurse at St. George Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK also expertise in the healthcare sector with M NursSci qualification. As per Somekh and Lewin (2011) studies on research methodology, the title of any research does not approve or disapprove the purpose of research but the title should form a maximum coordination with the research aim. In the present research paper, the title is congruent with the text clearly reflecting the research aim and purpose of the study. Aim of the research is clearly stated as a separate section indicating that goal of the research is to critically study the grief experiences of nurses and their coping mechanism after patients death. However, there are no clearly identified research objectives in this paper. Further, The abstract of this research clearly described the each stage of research in a summarised manner with a specific background, method, findings, and conclusion details. Vargas-Hernajndez (2012) indicated that research abstract should always outline a clear title with aim followed by a cite to research methods, data collection methods, results and conclusion. The present research abstract is having a long word length The Heideggerian phenomenology is used as an approach to this nursing study to critically analyse the experience of professionals (nurses) in different grief situations. According to Flood (2010) Heidegger phenomenon is based on human fundamental notions rather than human knowledge or consciousness that is a perfect phenomenon to perform nursing research. In this paper, the author used a qualitative approach to understand human (nurses) experience by performing their interviews indicates that research works to understand the human experience in their natural settings rather than just describing their knowledge on research topic as per Heidegger concept of interpreting and describing human experience. The nursing research involves the effort to understand people, quality care requirements, depth of patient and illness along with understanding experiences and the Heideggrerian phenomenology helps in better understanding of caring experience rather than knowledge (Saunders et al. 2009). The published literature is used as sources for writing introduction and background of the research topic. The literature supports arguments in the previous researches done on nurses experience of grief after patients death. The literature sources highly support the research hypothesis indicated that grief experience is an identified phenomenon in nursing care. The theoretical framework was chosen in this research is Colaizzis framework because this framework provides thematic analysis involving participants experiences analysis that is completely applicable using seven step Colaizzis framework that coordinates with interpretive phenomenon chosen in the study. The participants were selected using non-probability sampling technique where Registered Nurses were purposively sampled from the population of RNs working in ICU ward of UK hospital. This sample is specific to research question clearly linked with determining the data on professional and experienced nurses experience of grief situations. The selected participants were living in phenomenon of interest because the registered nurses having a minimum of 8 months experience with maximum of 6 years work experience in ICU ward were sampled for research (Shorter and Stayt, 2010) The nursing researches involving human experience and involvement require a formal consent of participants. Further, the nursing research has moral and legal obligations of individual privacy concerns and truthfulness of nursing research. These ethical issues are involved in this research, which are overruled by following the ethical guidelines of human research provided, by National Health and Medical Research Council (Burns and Grove, 2010). Further, the ethical issue of participants autonomy and privacy was controlled by providing an opportunity to clarify their doubts as well as providing feedback on the annotated version of their interview transcription. The qualitative data collection method by performing interview of selected participants was the selected data collection method in research. This qualitative data collection method clearly fit the research question because as per research phenomenon qualitative research on human experience can be best performed by developing practical approaches for research rather than observational approaches (Waltz et al. 2010). The data analysis strategy adopted in research was the thematic analysis based on seven step of Colaizzis framework. This thematic data analysis technique provides a logical flow of the data collected from interview sessions with participants. This technique is congruent with research aim because it involves a specific knowledge on different themes like death experience, nursing care, engagement, death thereafter etc. of nurses experiencing grief (Truscott et al. 2010). Their recorded interview transcripts, as well as written transcripts of participants interview provided in discussion sections, works as evidence to support the researchers interpretation in research. Yes, the researchers involved a specific description of the approach adopted to overcome the scientific rigour of the study that involved participants analysing the research transcript to providing accuracy and conformability to research. The research did not involve a clear identification of a link between the findings and theories related to the research topic. But, there was a clear link between the findings and existing literature theories with no new theory been developed in research (Shorter and Stayt, 2010) . Yes, the biases of researchers are reported in overall research discussion followed by a clear indication of research limitations. The conclusion of research also involves recommendations on further researches related to this study topic by utilising these research findings as source literature. The research also recognises the implications in the healthcare sector that would be appropriate to overcome the issues in managing grief situation experienced in nursing practice (Shorter and Stayt, 2010). References Books Burns, N. and Grove, S.K., 2010.Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-based practice. Elsevier Health Sciences. Saunders, M., Lewis, P., and Thornhill, A. 2009.Research Methods for Business Students, London: Pearson Publishers. Somekh, B. and Lewin, C. 2011. Theory and Methods in Social Research, 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications. Waltz, C.F., Strickland, O.L. and Lenz, E.R. eds., 2010.Measurement in nursing and health research. Springer Publishing Company. Journals Flood, A., 2010. 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