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¶ … Nursing burnout
Although both methodologies of quantitative and qualitative studies are present in the fields of medicine and nursing, the two approaches are occasionally pitted against one another. Quantitative studies are data-driven and numerical. They usually make use of an experimental or quasi-experimental study design and include both a control and an experimental group in terms of how they are structured. Qualitative studies, in contrast, usually are focused on small populations. Unlike quantitative studies which make use of the deductive method (generalized principles based upon a larger population which can then be applied to individual cases) qualitative studies make use of the inductive method, using a small population to create a theory which may then be generalized to others (or not, given that some qualitative studies are so focused on tiny subpopulations they may only have relevance to a very narrow subgroup). "Whereas quantitative research counts occurrences (eg, estimates prevalence, frequency, magnitude, incidence), qualitative research describes the complexity, breadth, or range of occurrences or phenomena" (Curry, Nembhard, & Bradley 2009). Versus the statistical testing used in quantitative research designed to test a hypothesis, qualitative research seeks to generate a hypothesis. Instead of "standardized processes and instruments with predetermined response categories" qualitative research deploys "open-ended discussions and observations" (Curry, Nembhard, Bradley 2009).
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The qualitative study consisted of semistructured interviews of ten nurses who had left or were leaving the profession. After a literature review of the various theories as to why nurses leave spanning from burnout to poor preparation which the researchers judged to be inadequate given the lack of input from nurses who had left themselves, "a phenomenological research design was used to provide an in-depth understanding of nurses' decisions to leave clinical practice" (MacKusick & Minick 2009: 336). Recruitment was conducted using "currently practicing RNs at various hospitals in the southeastern United States [who] were contacted by the primary investigator and asked if they knew nurses no longer in clinical practice" (MacKusick & Minick 2009: 336). A list of the ten common questions asked by the former nurses is provided by the researchers but interviewers were permitted to go 'off script' to elicit more full and more emotionally truthful replies, consistent with the phenomenological approach of the study. The study sought to gain a sense of all components of various aspects of a particular phenomenon in a fairly non-directive manner. Common themes which emerged were unfriendly workplaces with hostile coworkers; emotional…
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