Critique

Title
A good title gets the attention of the readers. It should be short, clear, precise, informative, and attention grabbing (Wolery & Lane, 2009). A good title must define what the study is about. The title of this article is specific and depicts a conscious statement of the topic referring to various variables of the study. Therefore, it is self-explanatory and intended to inform the reader about the topic.
Abstract
An abstract should be short and must have a good statement that describes what the research is about (Jorden and Little, 2004). It must provide background information, scope of the research, the results and contents of the work. In addition, it must show relevance of the work (Creswell, 2009). In this article the researchers, although they have not specifically put the abstract, it is clear from the readers that the elements that make a good abstract are available. They have identified the problem of research as medication errors as well as given the research design, methodology and results. The research has shown its relevance to clinical practice (Michaelson, 2006).
Introduction
The introduction section provides an overview of the work to the readers (Vintzileos & Ananth, 2010). The researchers identify errors in medication as a major concern in Australia both in hospitals as well as in medical centres and aged care facilities throughout the country in the first paragraph. They have also shown the justification of the research by giving statistics that indicate a great majority of people in Australia who need medical care might be at risk of harm due to medication error by care givers (Berntsen, 2004). The researchers conclude by saying that education in nursing need to address ways to facilitate safe administration of medication.
Literature Review
In any research, the literature review is usually the longest and its objective is to explain what other studies conducted in the past have identified. By going through the studies of other people in a chosen area, a researcher is able to determine and present to readers a justification of conducting a research by showing what has not been explored in the past. Therefore, by reviewing literature, one is able to identify gap in knowledge (Wolery & Lane, 2009).
In this article, the researchers confirm that there is limited information on the subject of medication administration by undergraduate nursing students in off-campus settings. They also state that their findings will provide a way of new idea that focus on this problem as well as other medication errors. As a result of this, the article provides a new stream of research. This study is based on grounded theory and therefore it has no review of the literature in the area of study before collection of data. The basis of this is to avoid bias in developing concepts and ideas from data that is basically fit. In grounded theory researches, researchers collect data first before looking at available literature. When analysing the data, the grounded theory starts to take shape and researchers are able to review existing literature so as to relate previous findings to their theory. In this way researchers are able to determine how previous researches extend emerging theory (Mauch and Park, 2003). In summary, this article has not presented a literature review before data collection. However, the when one looks at the discussion section, it is clear that the researchers compared their findings to existing research on the topic. 
Methodology
Quantitative and qualitative methods are usually employed in social sciences research. The quantitative method is based on positivism which assumes scientific analysis to be based on universal laws and the main objective of this method is to measure the social world (Dillman, 2000). Qualitative research on the other hand is holistic in nature. It is an interpretive method whose aim is to understand social life and its meaning in every situation (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005). This article is qualitative in nature. The researchers used method like interviews in getting data. The article also focuses on experiences of nursing students in the administration of medication in the health care facilities. According to Annesley (2010) qualitative research is centred on people and often gives more description of human behaviour. This method was used in this research because it helps participants to air their views without much prompting (Berntsen, 2004). The research used in-depth interviews using a semi-structured approach to collect data. The researcher also used open ended questions so that issues would be discussed more freely than would otherwise be in case of closed or structured questions (Annesley, 2010).
Sample and Setting
This analysis made use of theoretical sampling approach in order to the kind of data to collect as well as the people to include (Polit and Beck, 2004). The research started by targeting final year students from Queensland, Australia because they were about to go for their final clinical placement. They were to be under the supervision of registered nurses. In addition, the researchers knew that these students would help in their study as they were going to gain experience in medication administration in off-campus settings. Through the use of a theoretical approach, the researchers identified 28 out of 135 students who were to be included in the study. According to Yin (2009) the theoretical approach is used to collect data to help generate a theory where a researcher collects, codes and analyses the data to determine which data will be collected next and where it can be found in order to further develop the theory as it grows.
Data Collection and Analysis
The researchers sought accessed the names of students through the Dean, where 135 were invited to take part. The researchers used in-depth interviews using semi-structured approach as a primary method of getting data. Open-ended questions were used as they allow people to discuss issues freely. The interviews were recorded with permission of the participants. The approach used by t...