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The title missed nursing care is not only unrealistic but also deficient in information. This title could mean an array of things which remain undefined (Kalisch, 2006). Therefore, more flesh should be added to this skeleton to enable it to communicate adequately. The occurrence being investigated here from this title is clear although the population under study has remained unmentioned rendering the title incomplete and thus undeniably ambiguous to the reader.
To start with, the abstract is extremely short or over summarized in a way that it lacks that ability bestowed upon an abstract to communicate all that pertains the article briefly but also comprehensively. It has only used 71 words as opposed to a proper abstract that should have words ranging from 150 – 200 (Langford, 2014). Despite being so summarized most major aspects of the article had been highlighted. The contents of the abstract also mention seven themes which were arrived at though not stated adequately or given the seriousness that they require as they are the core aspects that enable nurses to be deficient in the nursing care as enshrined in the title.
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Statement of the problem
Just from a glance at the title of this article a point is driven home that certain aspects of the nursing care are a miss or have been omitted and thus leading to detrimental effects which raise some concerns that require prompt measures to be put in place. Also, there are no clear reasons as to why there exists a gap in the nursing care being accorded to people despite it being the main reason for writing this article. According to Creswell, such problem statement has not been framed properly and adequately as there still exists challenge of inadequate literature materials rendering this topic of paramount significance to the nursing profession (Creswell, 2013). Thus, this calls for more intensive researches concerning the same. The methods that have been used are not mentioned in the first paragraph but later on after the research questions where they have been described more elaborately.
Research questions
The research questions one and two which state what nursing care is normally omitted in medical and surgical units by nurses and reasons that the nursing fraternity front for not giving elaborate nursing care tally with the research topic under scrutiny. The title missed nursing care is congruent with the research questions that have been fronted, what is being omitted and reasons why nurses give an inadequate care. This questions will give directives on what is being studied in comparison to the conceptual framework although to this level the research tradition remains still unclear (Alvesson & Sandberg, 2013).
Literature review
The author cites in the introduction that inadequate staffing of the nursing staff has led to bad outcomes when it comes to patients care. Many sources of literature review have their themes based on staffing, malnutrition, problems arising after patient discharge and advantages of mobility (Kalisch, 2006). There seems to be a repertoire of sources that are related to this topic of study to create a substantial framework although a void is detected in missed nursing care that calls for urgent research to be conducted on this issue so that in future researchers on the same topic will have more sources to cite.
Conceptual shortcomings
In the major article concepts are mentioned like how understaffing leads to poor patient care though; we are not told what poor patient care means or what missed nursing care entails. The author from the beginning makes us believe that we are going to explore the reason for this concept and why there are voids in the path of giving care to patients.
Protection of sample population rights
Despite their being assurance of participant confidentiality in the whole process as the participants had committed themselves to in the first instance there comes a time where the participants are asked to confess openly in front of their colleague’s circumstances where they failed to perform their duty effectively. This would oblige them to withhold information and would rather have conducted one to one interview. According to research, participants may boycott the whole research process due to the fear of violation of ethical standards (Veloso, Cunha, & Garrafa, 2016).
Data collection
The method of data collection used was focused group discussion which is in line with the naturalistic paradigm is rich and adding to the time for the groups and the sample size it is clear that the data collected was adequate for the study to be comprehensive. We are not told which questions were asked and who led the focused group discussions thus the reliability of data collected could be questionable also to some extent. The research article has to elaborate clearly on the methodology that was used to arrive at a substantial conclusion (Glesne, 2015).
Findings
All the findings from the study have been listed and described in this section. The themes convince the reader as to why the nurse cannot partake all the duties allocated to her/him to completion. The questions have been properly answered, and the reader makes out the shortcomings faced by the nurse while at the same time getting to understand the nurses’ perspective on the same.
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