How would you appraise the ERR (Electronic Reserve Reading) for the week?
Ganz, F. K., Fink, N. F., Raanan, O., Asher, M., et al. (2009). ICU nurses’ oral-care practices and the current best evidence. Journal of
Nursing Scholarship, 41(2), 132-138.
Question 4.
Please replay in 100 words
The first thing that caught my attention was that this study was conducted in the country of Jerusalem, so my initial thought is what do I
know about the health practices in Jerusalem and then thought, what about their practices would dictate patient preferences or concerns
there. Moving forward, I did find this article well versed in the background section, providing info to me about their nursing concerns are
not far off from ours and the discussion of the CDC guidelines was comforting. The article does an excellent job of discussing current
literature from their literature review. The authors discuss the statistical analyses methods used; ANOVA. The authors provided discussion
of their sample group and their instrutment; of note, they decided not to use Cronbach’s alpha because they believed it inappropriate for
the checklist on the survey tool. It would have been beneficial for the readers to have access to the questions the researchers used, not
just the data aggregated from the answers. Given the information provided, I think that this study would be reproducable. At close, the
researchers provide their suggestions for future studies.
Reference:
Ganz, F. K., Fink, N. F., Raanan, O., Asher, M., et al. (2009). ICU nurses’ oral-care practices and the current best evidence. Journal of
Nursing Scholarship, 41(2), 132-138.
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