Planning and Design Analysis Grid
Your Learning Team has been assigned two articles to analyze for assignments in Weeks Three and Four. One article is a qualitative research study, and the other is a quantitative research study. Identify which article is which, and then complete the table where applicable. Write no more than three sentences in each cell of the table.
| |Qualitative |Quantitative |
|Research question |How do patients perceive the quality of care | |
| |on a medical-surgical unit as it relates to | |
| |answering the call light? | |
|Problem |The patient perceptions about staff response | |
| |and the staffs’ response to the patients’ | |
| |call lights are a key component of patient | |
| |satisfaction on this medical-surgical unit. | |
|Purpose |The purpose of this research is to evaluate | |
| |patients’ satisfaction on this | |
| |medical-surgical unit as it relates to | |
| |answering the call light. |
References: The Yeshiva University Fatherhood Project. (n.d.). Introducing Qualitative Hypothesis-Generating Research. Retrieved, December 8, 2012. Retrieved from http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/0814706940chapt1.pdf