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¶ … Attitudes Towards Medical Marijuana
The main purpose of the study will be to assess nurses' feelings and perceptions of patients who use medical marijuana for pain management. This will predominantly give light to the way the professionals who prescribe and supervise the use of marijuana think of the people they attend to on a regular basis. The research will be seeking to establish the perception created in the minds of the nurses and how this affects their reaction and handling of the patients who use marijuana for pain management. With the attitudes established, it will be fundamental in forecasting whether the use of medical marijuana will in the future have a positive reception and acceptance within the society or not.
Research question
The research question that will guide the formulation of this study will therefore be 'What are nurses perception/attitude towards patients using medical marijuana for pain management?'
Method of study
In the context of this paper, the research will adopt the qualitative approach where the Phenomenology. This will help in the study of the consciousness of the nurses and the self-awareness as that the nurses undergo as the idea of using marijuana takes root in the medical field. Since Phenomenology basically deals in the study of the self-consciousness and self-awareness through the first person point-of-view (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014), the study will give the researchers the chance to experience first hand the changes...
The researchers will also form an interactive bond with the subject as the easiest way to the conscious of the nurses and the approach will also give the searchers the opportunity to interact with the targeted nurses on a daily basis as they go through their chores at home during the off duty sessions and in effect learn their attitudes and perceptions concerning the patients. These are milestones that cannot be easily achieved through the quantitative approaches.
Population sample
The sample population will be sourced from nurses across different specialties so as to get a balanced attitude from varying backgrounds. There will be 15 nurses will be engaged in both interview and questionnaire filling. The nurses who will participate in the research will have to be on off duty for a reasonable duration within which they will be able to successfully answer the questions in the questionnaire. There will be a provision for additional number of nurses to be engaged in the research if the 15 initial number shall not reach the data saturation point and their responses deemed to have provided sufficient data such that no more new information is forth coming.
The inclusion criteria that will be employed in selecting the population sample is that the participant must be a RN, he must be off duty at the time of participation, he must be working or have worked with at least more that 5 patients who use marijuana as a pain management drug. The participants must have been in the nursing practice for at least 2 years to qualify for the research study participation. The exclusion criteria are such that is the individual uses marijuana for whatever purpose, then he is excluded from the sample, if the nurse comes from a nuclear family that has a member using marijuana for medicinal or otherwise purpose…
References
Ballou and Janice, (2011). Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods. Retrieved June 28, 2015 from http://www.uk.sagepub.com/chambliss4e/study/chapter/encyc_pdfs/4.1_Open-Ended%20Questions.pdf
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2014 ). Phenomenology. Retrieved June 28, 2015 from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
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