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Student #1
Upon appraising this article, I found that this was an excellent source for information. There was sufficient information, the evidence that was provided was trustworthy based off qualifications, knowledge, and expertise, there is a clear summary about the article given in the abstract, and the title encompasses what the article is about. The phenomena was clearly stated at the beginning, which created multiple questions that were also clear, accurate, and justifiable. Behind every article has to be a purpose, and the purpose of this article was specifically stated and clear to the audience to understand why the article was written, along with the medication error reporting significance to nursing. Ethics were taken into consideration by the researching staff as they included many personal quotations from clients, but never included their name or anything more than what they stated. The method that was done in order to complete this research was compatible with the purpose of the research, adequate to address the phenomenon of the research, and completed to the extend that the researcher described. The sampling that was done to complete the research necessary for this article was taking random participants, who were nurses, from different units of the hospital, which gave a broad spectrum of opinions, which was appropriate and successful. The data collection is 100% based off human experience because the researcher took direct quotes that were in sufficient depth. Before the participants could give their information, they had to fill in a demographics form and consent form. This source was authentic, credible, auditable, transferable, and trustworthy. The findings and conclusions were clearly stated and proves that the research was successful in collecting sufficient information for the questions asked at the beginning.
Strengths that I found in the study were that it was very organized and concise, trustworthy research was taken, the participants were quality and sufficient for the phenomenon, and done to the best of the researcher’s ability. The only weakness that I believe would have helped make this paper even better would have been to have more than just nurses be the participants. I think it would have been interesting to see if from patients, managers, medication companies, or families points of view to hear what they have to say.
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Student #2
The qualitative research study explores the nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and perceived barriers towards the different medication error reporting within the Tertiary health care facility. According to the article, it is noted that medication error reporting (MER) tends to be a much more effective approach that is used in the identification of the causes of different Medication Errors (MEs) and also helps in the prevention of repeating them in future in other organizations (Dyab et al., 2018). The failure to report the MEs is a significant challenge reported in different MER systems in various healthcare organizations. The study focused on understanding nurses’ knowledge of MER by determining the attitude of the nurses toward reporting and studying the facilitators and barriers to reporting among the nurses.
However, this qualitative study exhibits both strengths and weaknesses. One of the major strengths is that the study reports that Medication error reporting (MER) is a much more effective way to identify the significant causes of Medication errors (ME) and how to prevent the mistakes from repeating themselves in the organization. Also, the study shows that the underreporting of MEs is noted in different MER systems (Dyab et al., 2018). The study focused on understanding the nurses’ knowledge of MER by determining their attitudes towards reporting and the facilitators and barriers to MER. The study is also beneficial as it shows the approaches that can be used to improve the participation of nurses for MER in the organization. On the downside, the study does not provide more details on Medication error reporting (MER) and the different methods that can be used in an organization to ensure that the process is conducted effectively. The study only focuses on the importance of MER and how it can be used to identify Medication Errors (MEs) but does not show how to conduct MER.
