NUR2300 Evidence Based Nursing Practice

Answer:

Generalization of research findings

Generalization often refers to making conclusions about much broader population. This has brought the need for people demanding results immediately, thus well planned surveys and experiments need to be adopted.

Generalization of research findings is an essential component in research process. Generalisation is efficient in order to minimise sampling the whole population. Variation are often used as independent variables, however this is not visible in majority of the situations. For generalization to be effective, you must ensure that sample group is true representative of the whole population and further the size of the group category under focus should allow statistical extrapolation of an entire population, (Branch & Pennypacker, 2013).

In real life research process, it is impossible to sample the whole research subjects, however in studies such as hunt study or the decoder genetics of Iceland study. Key aspect to consider while conducting generalization is to understand how results can be applied backwardly to form a representative of sample group.

Generalization of results often encounters challenges, consider, study group with certain socio economic disposition, results found in this site, can be hard to generalize to a different location like case example urban and rural places. This often causes discrepancies and ability of the entire research design is questionable, (Polit & Beck, 2010).

However to counter act this, most statistical tests have inbuilt mechanism model which take into account large sample sizes having larger groups which often display results that are more significant. This can however bring problems on the validity of the results, which have an effect on generalization of the correct results.

Recommendations for practice

Recommendations for practice are intended guidelines which reduces the inappropriate discrepancies in the clinical field. They minimise harm and improve on the cost effectiveness thus improving the optimal amongst the patience. Recommendations serve as guidelines which are aimed at influencing certain behaviour, and thus make the practitioner to act in certain manner or behaviour, (McCarty, Greenlick & Lamb, 1998).

Recommendations have been widely used as guideline rather than overruling the overall judgement of professional practice. Limited variation of recommendation can be advocated for a variant practice. They team up to offer practical variability for effective practice. Practitioners in health care settings, when dealing with recommendations in their practice are advised to take care of the patients’ interests, (Harbour & Miller, 2011).

Strong recommendations often exhibit benefits approach which clearly exceeds the harm on the patient and the following evidence of the practice has to supersede quality threshold.

Thus in recommendation practice, application entails the usage of pertinent evident based research which has clear benefits and harm analysis. There is need for subject preference of any participant when putting into practice the recommendations.

References

Branch, M. N., & Pennypacker, H. S. (2013). Generality and generalization of research findings.

Harbour, R., & Miller, J. (2001). A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 323(7308), 334.

McCarty, D., Greenlick, M. R., & Lamb, S. (Eds.). (1998). Bridging the gap between practice and research: Forging partnerships with community-based drug and alcohol treatment. National Academies Press.

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2010). Generalization in quantitative and qualitative research: Myths and strategies. International journal of nursing studies, 47(11), 1451-1458.