What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of A Quantitative Article

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For this essay, I will critique the strengths and weaknesses of a quantitative article based on the personality types of nurses in the emergency department (Kennedy, B., Curtis, K., & Waters, D., 2014). I will demonstrate my understanding to appraise an article by considering the strengths and weaknesses of the article as well as showing how it can be implicated into clinical practise. The research article will be assessed on its ability to write about the topic and how the research was completed and its results. It is important to be able to assess a research article and to determine if it is a good study because if you are trying to implicate it in your work place and clinical practise then you need to make sure that the study and the results were completed correctly and ethically otherwise you should not be …show more content…

Jackson, D. (2013). The paper should be set out in a way that is understandable to readers and helps them in the implementation of the research into clinical practise. For this essay, I will follow the research process set out in the study article and will discuss the strengths and the weaknesses and then discuss the implications of the study in clinical practise.

When first reading a quantitative research article, we need to make sure it is current and that it relates to the journal that it is in. This study is within the last five years so it is current and the journal is about Australian emergency nursing. The title of the study lets us know that study is relevant to the journal. The title of the article needs to explain what the article will be about and the aim in brief words. The title for this article explains the population- emergency nurses and the topic under investigation- unique personalities. The way the title is phrased also lets us know the aim of the article “The personality of emergency nurses: is it unique?” (Kennedy, B., Curtis, K., & Waters, D., 2014). The

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