Assignment task: Identifying Research Methodologies
Topic: What are the Preventive Strategies for Healthcare-Associated Infections in the hospital settings?
Articles to use are;
1. Empowering patients to prevent healthcare-associated infections. American Journal of Infection Control
2. Oral Microbes in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Practice and Research Implications. Critical Care Nurse
3. Bundle-Based Approach to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Nurse
4. Efficacy of a care bundle to prevent multiple infections in the intensive care unit: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design study. Applied Nursing Research
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles, analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles and should include the following:
- A statement explaining why they chose of the peer-reviewed article and or how it relates to the clinical issue of interest '''What are the Preventive Strategies for Healthcare-Associated Infections in the hospital settings?''
- Include a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
- A description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
- A description of the research methodology used.
- Identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach and be specific.
- A description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles.