NURS 5052/NURS 6052. Critiquing Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Studies

Critiquing Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Studies
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NURS 5052/NURS 6052
Walden University
Essentials of Evidence-Based Practice
 Background
Compassion fatigue is stress that results from therapeutic help, empathy, compassionate care and emotional commitment among professionals especially health practitioners in critical care and trauma environments.   The burnout syndrome is associated with emotional, physical and mental exhaustion while working in emotionally demanding environments and this may cause depersonalization (Neville, K., & Cole, 2013). Care professionals are susceptible to   compassion fatigue and burnout. The quantitative study and qualitative study highlight compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among nurses. 
Contrast the types of information that you gained from examining the two different research approaches in the articles that you selected.
Quantitative researchers focus on empirical evidence based on objective reality, where the evidence includes observations gather (Polit & Beck, 2017). On the contrary, qualitative researchers utilize in- depth methods to describe and highlight the importance of phenomena. The qualitative research focused on perceptions of the study participants, and even required the researchers to facilitate the focus group, which increase increased interaction and more reopen communication. This contrasts with the quantitative research where there is focus on high-quality data as evidence
The study participants cooperated in the qualitative study as part of the focus group and there was information on their perceptions about stress trigger working with trauma patients. In both approaches, health practitioners in negative working environments were more likely to experience higher levels of compassion fatigue and burnout. The data in quantitative research was numerical values, but there was more focus on narrative description of the information gathered in the qualitative data. The internal validation of the situation in the quantitative study was highlighted through the use of measurement instruments.
Describe the general advantages and disadvantages of the two research approaches featured in the articles. Use examples from the articles for support.
  One of the strengths of the quantitative strength is in the external validity as the sample is representative of the population, which makes it possible to project the sample to the population.  When needed more advanced statistical tests can be conducted in the research and variables compared over time the information are also reliable because the data is stable at different times. Nonetheless, qua...