Sampling from one nursing specialty group using two different approaches.
Background: The use of probability sampling is the benchmark of survey research as it increases the likelihood of obtaining results which can be generalised. However, fleeting attention has been given to using a probability sample drawn from professional associations; in this instance, nurses who be...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Advanced Perioperative Care Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 78 - 86 |
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Association for Perioperative Practice
Aug2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=53714886&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 53714886 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14705664 1FUJ jtl: Journal of Advanced Perioperative Care issn: 14705664 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2010 vid: 4 iid: 2 pid: 13748 pub: Association for Perioperative Practice artinfo: ui: 53714886 53714886 105099597 53714886 ppf: 78 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Sampling from one nursing specialty group using two different approaches. aug: au: Gillespie, Brigid Chaboyer, Wendy Wallis, Marianne affil: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia sug: subj: Probability Sample Evaluation Nursing Organizations Labor Supply Sampling Bias Perioperative Nursing Organizations Human Secondary Analysis Self-Efficacy Clinical Competence Hope Support Groups Collaboration Nurse-Physician Relations Coping Intraprofessional Relations Perioperative Nursing Stress, Occupational Hardiness Queensland Multicenter Studies Demography Scales Operating Room Personnel Data Analysis Software Adult Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics Chi Square Test Educational Status Job Experience T-Tests Australia Adult: 19-44 years ab: Background: The use of probability sampling is the benchmark of survey research as it increases the likelihood of obtaining results which can be generalised. However, fleeting attention has been given to using a probability sample drawn from professional associations; in this instance, nurses who belong to particular specialty groups. Currently, there is little research which has highlighted sample differences within a specific target population associated with the use of two different sampling approaches in one study. Objective: This paper presents a secondary analysis of the results of an Australian study that measured general self-efficacy, perceived competence, trait hope, peer support, collaboration with medical staff, cohesion among nurses, managing stress, planful coping, and resilience in two samples of operating room nurses. The first sample was drawn using systematic random sampling from a professional association, and the second was drawn using a purposive sample of hospital nurses to illustrate significant differences in demographic characteristics and scale scores across these two samples. Methods: The target population of this study included all operating room nurses practising in this speciality in all Australia states and territories. Based on this, two accessible populations were delineated. The association sample (n = 772) was randomly drawn from a national association of Australian operating room nurses, whilst the hospital sample (n = 124) consisted of all operating room nurses from two large tertiary hospitals in Queensland, Australia. Results: Significant differences between the association and hospital samples were identified. Nurses in the association sample were older, more experienced and a considerably higher proportion of nurses in this sample possessed specialty qualifications than their counterparts in the hospital sample (p < 0.0001 ). Additionally, there were differences between these two samples in seven out of the nine scales used in this study. Conclusions: In this study, the use of a professional specialty association allowed a national random sample; nevertheless, this sample was not similar to the operating room nurses practising in one state. However, detection of such differences may not have been apparent if one sampling method had been used exclusively. The results of this study highlight the context that local level purposive samples add to information gained through probability sampling of large national broader level contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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