Focus Groups Research Papers Samples For Students

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In Meert et al.’s (2009) qualitative study “Examining the Needs of Bereaved Parents in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study,” the authors seek to determine what is missing from the basic support-based needs of parents who have just lost a child in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Over the course of six years, they conducted interviews and focus groups with the recently bereaved in order to evaluate their experiences with health care professionals, and what could have been done better to help with their needs. This data was then inserted into qualitative data software for analysis, ...

Innovators must deeply experience the world of their Customers

Introduction
Miriam Webster defines innovation as a new idea, device, or method. Most people want to be innovative and often think that their good idea will lead to their success and happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson is famously misquoted as having said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” (Kassinger, 2002 p.128). Mousetraps have been created since the 1800s, but even since 1976 there have been 309 additional mousetrap patents filed (USPTO, 2014). However, if one goes searching for a mousetrap, they will probably find it gathering dust at the back of an old hardware store. ...

Introduction to Electric Battery for Aero-Space applications

The Engineering Company has decided to buy a small firm that has designed and developed an electric battery for aerospace application. Technological feasibility of the battery (rechargeable secondary battery) is established, and the final product needs to be designed for commercial use. A secondary battery is used as energy storing device, which is connected to and charged through a primary source of energy. The secondary battery will deliver the stored energy to the load on demand. Secondary battery has various applications in an aerospace environment, especially providing power remotely from a discrete source of power. Application of the developed battery in aerospace ...

Qualitative research is relatively new to nursing research. Despite its being usually underused and undervalued, qualitative research is increasingly contributing to nursing knowledge (Hall, 2006). The purpose of this paper is to compare qualitative and quantitative research in order to examine their differences. The comparison will be done by examining an article using the qualitative method and two articles using the quantitative method. All articles are on the same topic, cystic fibrosis. All articles were published in well-known and reputable journals. The qualitative article is by Carpenter and Narsavage (2004) and the quantitative ones are by De Bias, et ...

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In the past, we have seen a considerable number of children born prematurely succumb to death shortly after delivery (Koletzco, 2014). This is most prominent in the developing countries for obvious reasons where infant mortality rates are more pronounced. Babies born underweight or premature are in dire need of someone to come up with innovation to bridge this gap. The innovation of infant warmers would go a great mile to help these infants. An infant warmer is a sleeping bag for infants which serves the purpose of an incubator. One thing about the infant warmer is the fact that ...

in Healthcare Environment in Oncology Care

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Healthcare Environment in Oncology Care
This study by Browall, Koinberg, Falk, and Wijk aims to characterize the factors that are important to oncology patients within the healthcare environment (2013). The characteristics of the environment during treatment, particularly long-term care for patients with likely incurable and life-threatening illnesses, has emerged as a crucial factor in the development of person-centered medical care (McCormack and McCance, 2006). Because of foundations in holistic human values, person-centered care is regarded as the equivalent to best quality care (Mead and Bower, 2000). The role of the nurse in providing ...

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In the current global scenario when the driving forces of globalization like communication, transportation, advent of technologies, transnational companies and internet have diminished boundaries, the work place environment has become extremely diverse and multiculturalism has become a norm in global organizations. Though multiculturalism brings in some challenges but if those challenges can be overcome with proper implementation of strategies then diversity adds more value to an organization in terms of competitive advantage. A multicultural organization is an organization that consists of not only a diverse workforce, but in which all the minority sections are well integrated into different levels of the ...

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This research paper reviews the present system of jury selection as widely practiced in the U.S., whereby trial attorneys engage the services of Trial Consultants who employ so-called Scientific Jury Selection (SJS) methodology, in order to identify individuals from a pool of prospective jurors who may be more (or less) kindly disposed towards their side (prosecution or defense) of the upcoming case. Beginning with a brief history of the system, the paper then summarizes the three-stage process of jury selection as it exists today. Controversial issues surrounding SJS and trial consultants are also discussed. For example, is SJS effective (both in ...

How do males & females use Facebook as a platform to initiate flirtatious activity?

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Social media has become almost the be all and end all regarding interaction and although it has its own purposes as a business tool, it is mostly used for flirtatious activity.
In today’s day and age, social media is the next big thing and this has become intrinsically part of our popular culture in many ways. As argued in books such as Reading the Signs, popular culture can be defined in several ways which include the portrayal of adverts in a given commercial and other similar issues.
However it is social media which is now gaining ...

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The continued digitalization of the business environment implies that business information systems are increasingly becoming a necessity for any organization. This is as a result of the synergies such systems create by reducing redundancies and improving efficiency in the management of resources. The proposed Supply Logistics Training Initiative (SLTI) is a business information system that seeks to augment the internally held function of training employees on supply chain and logistics software programs (ppt pre). By supporting an organization’s human resource management functions through the training module, employees are bound to have enhanced access to superior training resources ...

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Successful development of products is an important cornerstone for the success of any firm. Thus, there exist significant incentives for the firms to introduce new and viable products to markets. Also, the payoff regarding financial success can help enhance a firm’s profitability and growth that is not achievable with existing services and products that could be nearing the maturity stage in their cycle. Finally, development of new products can be a source of important economies of scale for a firm (Rajiv and Naresh, 2008). In that view, Apple considers extending its product line and seeks to conduct a ...

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This study was done to examine various types of nursing care that are regularly missed at the medical-surgical units and those reasons why such types of nursing care are missed. We need to understand the fact that nursing care for patients is an essential key in managing patients, in the hospital. Understanding the goal of the study is a step towards creating the needed help to make a change in nursing care. Literature review shows that there is a lack of studies in relations to nursing care missed identified hence those elements are separated while explored. The research questions ...

Healthy eating and proper nutrition are tasks becoming more and more difficult in Western culture’s fast-food based environment. Obesity in the American public is a growing issue that over the last two decades have turned into nothing short of a global epidemic. Research nutritionists agree that the root cause of American obesity is caused by over consumption of sugar, fat and salt. Sugar and its counterparts of high fructose syrup and corn syrup are the worst perpetrators of this issue and the root causes of the obesity epidemic. Globalization of economies has led to a reduction in the diversity of foods ...

Patent Transition to Homecare

Patient Transition to Homecare
In this qualitative study, Hvakvik and Dale gathered, recorded, and analyzed the perception of nurses who care for older persons undergoing the transition from being completely independent to receiving homecare. As a greater percentage of the global population ages, more and more people are faced with chronic and complex illnesses, so this is an issue that is ripe for examination by the nursing profession. Although this study was undertaken in Norway, the challenges and solutions discussed are quite familiar to the aging Western European and North American population and therefore are more broadly applicable. Two ...

Waiting time for patients and doctors is one of the most important issues in any medical care facility; and one of the hardest to manage. Time management is particularly difficult and especially vital in a Diabetic Clinic for a variety of reasons:
- Diabetics are subject to acute symptoms that require immediate attention;

Waiting in an environment such as a doctor’s office can bring on an attack;

Attacks can occur elsewhere and draw a Physician’s attention away from scheduled patients;
- Diabetics are subject to complications that require immediate attention, short term and long term treatment plans;
- Additional testing may be needed to address acute and/or long term symptoms;
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With human resource being the most important, yet also one of the scarcest resources, for companies, these companies should find ways of better managing their employees not only to facilitate employee recruitment but also to ensure employee retention. In this regard, companies should take advantage of technology in order to further this initiative.
In particular, companies should consider the implementation of a Human Resource Information System (HRIS). According to Sharma (2009), the implementation of an HRIS can reduce HR costs through the automation of information and through the decreased need for a large number of HR employees. It also enables ...

Organizational Development practitioners use data when assessing an organization`s need as a forage for the consulting relationship. Data is not only used as a source of initiating dialogue between the client and a practitioner on different issues such as a difficult team, individual and organizational issues but also as a means to problem solving. Organization surveys, focus groups and interviews, personality assessment and process observations all rely on collection of data. Data is collected through questionnaires, interviews, performance records, company documents and focus groups. Organizational Development practitioners use data to advise the consulting process and provide a means for probing deeper into a condition or ...