Quantitative Research
An equal number of ADN and BSN nursing instructors view the Disrhythmia Management Course to be Important Abstract The purpose of this report is to compare the number of nursing instructors who view Disrhyrhmia management to be important in the BSN nursing program with those instructors from the AND program. Majority of the nursing instructors in both programs regard the teaching of Disrhythmia management to be important. Introduction Currently, it is not clear how nurses in the ADN and BSN programs perceive the importance of teaching Disrhythmia Management. It needs to be known as it will determine the training students get.
The study aims to give information on the percentage of nursing instructors who think that Disrhythmia Management is an important issue. Also, the study seeks to know the percentage of content that has been accredited. There are questions that need to be answered: How many nursing instructors consider Disrhythmia management to be important in both the ADN and the BSN nursing programs. The second question is how many similarities and differences can be brought out when comparing the content delivered on the management of Disrhythmia in the ADN and theBSN programs. MethodologyFifty-five ADN programs and forty-three BSN programs constituted the population of the sample.
However, questionnaires were disseminated to Iowa and Illinois only. Limitations such as the failure to verify the accuracy of data collected and the inability to control the time spent by a single respondent to complete the survey were encountered. The questionnaire was generated using an assessment tool that had been used previously. Literature review was carried out, and a nurse with a lot of expertise checked the content for validity. The IRB was used to determine if the research was of any benefit to the nursing educators and students (Creswell, 2003). The type of design used is the correlation design.
Two groups of people, those from Illinois and those from Iowa are being compared. The change in the values for each competency was recorded against the fields not important, moderately important, and very important. This design has been chosen for this research to determine how different competencies are regarded as important in the ADN and BSN programs in order to draw conclusions on the competency of ADN and BSN graduate nurses (Newman, 1997). Descriptive statistical analysis has been used. One advantage of the method is that summaries are drawn from the sample and observations made. A disadvantage is the overreliance on past information (Denzin, 2007).
Results Samples were collected from Illinois and Iowa to represent a larger population. A descriptive percentage such as 93.9% and 95.8% for ADN and BSN, respectively, was recorded under very important under the competency evaluates patient response in table 1. The programs that were accredited were 67.7% for ADN and 100% for BSN.
The average number of years the faculty taught the program was the same. This is shown by the close difference of the medians. For the BSN program it was 10.6 while that for ADN it was 10.2. Discussion and ConclusionToday, nurses in the ADN and BSN programs consider Disrhythmia Management to be important, but at a varying extent.
The nursing educators that view it to be less important needed to be determined so as to make the necessary adjustments to the programs. The research study was rigorous. What that needed to be done was explained. The explanation of the sample collection process is simple and plain. That indicates the rigor of the research (Punch, 2005).
From the findings we conclude that the same number of nursing instructors regard Disrhythmia management to be important. However, the tools for collecting data do not produce enough data for accurate analysis. I recommend that further research done should be wider and information collected should be validated.
