Background of Study

Nursing practices are advancing day by day, backed up by qualitative research studies contributing to the future development of nursing practices. However, two qualitative research studies help to understand the qualitative aspects better—the summary of the chosen qualitative research studies in the following manner shows the aspects. 

Summary 1: The first qualitative research study, “Patient involvement for improved patient safety: A qualitative study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences“, intends to explore the nurse’s perception and experiences regarding patient involvement to enhance patient safety in healthcare. The problem is the lack of safer patient care in the contemporary health care setting. The research question here represents as “do patients have a comprehensive idea of patient’s care in the current healthcare facilities?”. Therefore, this qualitative study has involved a qualitative design based on semi-structured interviews. It also involved nurses and nursing assistants to gather relevant information in Sweden Healthcare. The results of the qualitative research manifested four categories.

Firstly, it refers to the health care professional’s way of influencing the involvement of patients opting for safer care (Skagerström et al., 2017). Secondly, the influence of patients to induce patient care. The third outcome manifests the barriers to patients’ participation in safer care and the relevance of patient involvement to the safest patient care. Therefore, the result has displayed that the nurse’s perspective represents the involvement of the patient’s, healthcare providers and the healthcare system on the same page to get the best result from the practice. The relevance of this study to nursing is that it has been able to provide the nursing perspective towards the current patient’s care (Skagerström et al. 2017).

Summary 2: The second qualitative research study chose “Nurses in the lead: a qualitative study on the development of distinct nursing roles in daily nursing practice” to deliver the importance of the nursing roles in creating a distinction in daily nursing practices.

The problem here is identified with increasing pressure on health care providers with patient’s care due to lack of skilled nursing practitioners. The research question is “how nurses are leading the way to better nursing practices?”. The qualitative study has involved ethnographic methods and observation and precipitation in the relevant respondents. Twenty-two semi-structured interview questions were involved in gathering the appropriate data (Van Schothorst–Van Roekel et al., 2021). With the help of thematic analysis, the results are observed in terms of hospital nurses developing distinctive series of small changes in the daily nursing practices. It significantly contributed to enhancing the standard of nursing professionalism. It provides an opportunity to nurses to manage their new roles with diversified versatility. The relevance here is to highlight the great proximity of nurses in shaping the standard of today’s healthcare.

How do these two qualitative research studies support the nurse practice issue you chose?

The refer to the elements involved in a Clinical Research scenario such as patient intervention comparison outcome and time. The two selected articles are pretty evident in answering the PICOT questions as the first qualitative study has intended to highlight the issues of the current patients get in the Healthcare industry and how the nurse’s perspective is relevant in understanding the loopholes and feeling those loopholes with proper strategic activities (Alsolami, 2021). The second qualitative research is also evident in answering the PICOT questions as it highlights the role of the nurses in standardizing the health care facilities in modern hospitals, and their superficial contribution to patient care management has been evident in creating a big difference at the same time. 

The interventions and comparison group of the article has been evident in adhering to the questions as in the first article has manifested and intervention of taking account of the patient’s perspective in the current patient’s self-care and tried to implement a patient’s perspective about how safe care can be delivered to a patient (Brook & Kemp, 2021). On the other hand, the article also relied upon the nurse’s perspective to evaluate the entire scenario better and help create a proper and effective strategy. The interventions and comparison group in the second article has also been influential in understanding the importance of the nursing role and strive to impose the skills of the contemporary nurses carrying out in the healthcare industry to shape the practices that have been evident in answering the questions well (Brook & Kemp, 2021).

Method of the Qualitative Research Studies:

To discuss the method of the selected articles, it can be stated that the first article has adopted quantitative research where the same structure questions were present to the nursing staff of Sweden Healthcare and data were collected through the restricted questions regarding the patient’s involvement in patients safe care. In the context of the second article, the authors have involved ethnographic methods and semi-structured interviews to collect the required data while observing the nurses were also included in the process (Van Schothorst–Van Roekel et al. 2021).

Both articles have opted for almost the same method. Still, the difference is that the first article has stuck to the conventional qualitative research design where the semi-structured questions dominate the entire process. The second article has also adopted semi-structured interview questions, but it has also involved technographic methods and observations of the nurses (Alsolami, 2021). The one benefit that semi-structured questionnaires have is the ability to gain as much as possible authentic information from the respondents, and the barrier is that respondents could withdraw their participation at any point of the process.

Results of Studies

The result of the first study refers to the fact that the qualitative research design has been able to collect the outcomes in four categories such as health care professionals of influencing the patient’s safe care, the patient’s preferences towards having the patient’s safe care, the relevance of patient involvement in the patients safe for maintenance and the barriers to patients involving two patients’ safe care. As per the nurse’s perspective, patient involvement is a shared responsibility, and it is the responsibility of the health care providers to develop an opportunity for the patient to participate (Alsolami, 2021). The nurse’s perspective has also delivered that patient involvement can be handled by certain aspects of patient health care providers and the health system. The patient’s involvement in patients’ safe care can advantage from the nurse’s perspective and simultaneously provide unique benefits.

The results of the second qualitative research refer to the fact that hospital nurses developed a significant role in practising specific services to the patients, and it is manifested that the developmental approach incorporated by nurses and have helped in evolving their role in accumulation small changes within the healthcare facilities and organizational structure (Skagerström et al. 2017). Moreover, it has helped improve the professionalism within the nurses and their idealized policymakers to change legislation sim support nursing evolution of practices as well.

The implication of the results over the nursing practices is identified in terms of the bright side of nursing involvement in inpatient care. They can observe the patient’s care facility and suggest strategic development (Saunders, 2012). On the other hand, the second article has a significant influence as it would help shape standard nursing practices and make future nurses aware of their legislation policies and rights.

Ethical Considerations Adopted by the Qualitative Research Studies

Ethical considerations are a crucial part of collecting data for conducting any research, And to primary ethical consideration that the researchers need to consider is to 

Maintain confidentiality with the participant’s identity  

Provide the affected it to them to withdraw at any process point. 

About the articles, the authors have significantly focused on the first ethical consideration, which is to keep the participants’ identity confidential and also provide the opportunity to of their participation in any part of the process which is quite evident and create a standard for the studies (Skagerström et al. 2017).

References

Alsolami, F. (2021). Working experiences of nurses during the novel coronavirus outbreak: A qualitative study explaining challenges of clinical nursing practice. Nursing Open. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.977

Brook, J., & Kemp, C. (2021). Flexible rostering in nursing student clinical placements: A qualitative study of student and staff perceptions of the impact on learning and student experience. Nurse Education In Practice, 54, 103096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103096

Saunders, M. (2012). Perspectives From Family Caregivers Receiving Home Nursing Support. Home Healthcare Nurse, 30(2), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1097/nhh.0b013e3182429337

Skagerström, J., Ericsson, C., Nilsen, P., Ekstedt, M., & Schildmeijer, K. (2017). Patient involvement for improved patient safety: A qualitative study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences. Nursing Open, 4(4), 230-239. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.89

Van Schothorst–Van Roekel, J., Weggelaar-Jansen, A., Hilders, C., De Bont, A., & Wallenburg, I. (2021). Nurses in the lead: a qualitative study on the development of distinct nursing roles in daily nursing practice. BMC Nursing, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00613-3