Choosing the Methodology Assignment

Choosing The Methodology Assignment
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The study aimed to choose a technique for the researchers' suggested research on the spiritual well-being, resilience, and influence on academic achievement of nursing students. The study's design was based on constructivist epistemological ideas. The qualitative phenomenological research approach was utilized to elicit the essence of individual student nurses' perspectives on spiritual well-being and resilience. The following were the research findings: Using the NVivo software would aid in the data analysis process and in identifying clustered topics, content trends, and visually representing themes. It is prudent to use interview questions developed and reviewed with the assistance of an expert committee member on the dissertation team to increase the study's validity and reliability; The researcher will be accountable for all aspects of the study, including data collection, interviewing, and interpretation. The researcher must demonstrate ethical wisdom and comprehension, as well as adequately address ethics within each research component; reflexivity is critical in qualitative research to inform the researcher's personal views, interpretation of the data, and what they hope to gain. The study concluded the following: the main aim was to develop a technique that was most compatible with the overall purpose and research goals based on deductive reasoning and hypothesis development; collecting data from participants who have experienced the phenomena via in-depth interviews is regarded as one of the processes for doing phenomenological research, expert assessment of the interview questions, the researcher's role, and ethical issues.
Choosing the Methodology Assignment
Summary of Topic, Purpose, and Research Questions
The proposed study titled "Nursing Student's Perceptions of Individual Resilience, Spiritual Well-Being, and Academic Success "will examine the correlation between students' spiritual well-being concerning individual resilience and academic success. Although numerous research studies have linked the concept of resilience to factors that increase academic success, studies investigating the perceptions of student resilience are lacking. Furthermore, studies involving student perceptions are included in the nursing curriculum related to patient care (Abassi et al., 2014). Although holistic nursing care includes spirituality and spiritual well-being, research involving its perception by nursing students is also limited. Therefore, this study will attempt to understand the nursing students' perspectives regarding their spiritual well-being, resilience, and impact on their academic success.
The glossary of terms such as resiliency, spiritual well-being, academic success, and perception will provide information pertinent to understanding the concepts. Cleary et al. (2018) espouse that resilience is a concept that permits nursing students to nurture well-being, contribute effectively in professional practice, and overcome hardships. Resilience entails the capacity to react positively to calamities and the wisdom to make ethical choices that transform conventional practices and behaviors (Liang, 2017). The research questions will address the student's perception of resilience, spiritual well-being, and academic success, specifically how spiritual well-being affects resilience and whether the nursing educators can better develop these concepts.
The paper will be based on two existing and thoroughly researched theoretical frameworks of Stephen's (2013) model of Nursing Student Resilience and the Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS) developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) to correlate the concept of resilience and spiritual well-being. The researcher hypothesizes that spiritual well-being impacts resilience. Furthermore, that academic success is predicated on both spiritual well-being and resiliency.
The study can significantly impact the nursing profession by promoting strategies, which increase spiritual wellness, resiliency, and retention. This researcher assumes that as nursing retention increases, the number of graduating nurses increases, but the growing nursing shortage ultimately decreases. The researcher also believes that the findings of this study will encourage nursing programs to invest in interventions that will support spiritual well-being and resilience. Ultimately, nursing educators must develop strategies and interventions to build resilience throughout students' studies to tackle attrition, alleviate the national nursing shortage, and create health care members that are perceptive, optimistic, and congruent with the emotional needs of their patient population (Boardman, 2016).
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Research Design
Creswell and Poth (2018) assert that philosophical assumption is the essential principle that arranges the foundation for the interpretive framework used in qualitative research. The design of this study will be built on the epistemological constructivist perspectives. Creswell and Poth (2018) explain epistemology as a philosophical assumption grounded in investigating what counts as knowledge and how assertions about knowledge are confirmed. Social constructivism is a worldview that influences awareness and understanding of how we perceive and experience the world. Social constructivism highlights the implication of social interactions, active learning, and culture's role in creating knowledge.
In addition, phenomenology is the methodology that will capture the core of individual student nurses' views and experiences with spiritual well-being and resilience. The qualitative phenomenological research method was founded by Edmund Husserl, a German mathematician during the early 1900s, to research subjective topics, such as emotion (Leavy, 2014). Creswell and Poth (2018) state that phenomenology "turns on the lived experiences of individuals and how they have both subjective experiences of the phenomenon and objective experiences of something in common with other people" (p.76). The phenomenon of resiliency and spiritual well-being will be scrutinized to determine if the students perceive any effects on their academic success.
Population
The study will seek the participation of 5-10 senior-level nursing students pursuing a baccalaureate degree at a public state university in a rural segment of Southeastern Louisiana. Qualitative research studies will typically use a few individuals or cases to prevent hindering the researchers' overall ability to provide an in-depth picture of the information provided by the participants (Creswell & Guetterman, 2019). The researcher will use a purposeful convenience sample method. This population will be chosen because it is accessible to the researcher. A purposeful sample enables the researcher to identify participants that will intentionally determine statistical inferences to a population and best inform the researcher about the problem under investigation (Creswell & Poth, 2018). Convenience sampling can have internal validity if the findings are trustworthy and have limited external validity since the findings are not easily generalized to different populations (Andrade, 2021). Therefore, it will be necessary for the study to include participants who self-identify as having experience with the phenomenon of resilience.
The sample size will be increased until data saturation is achieved. Data saturation is a methodological principle in qualitative research to indicate when the data no longer produce new findings or understandings about the phenomenon being studied. Therefore, further data collection and analysis are no longer needed. Decisions to end data collection are often based on the researchers' sense of what they are obtaining from the interviews and can be made prior to coding and category development (Saunders et al., 2017).
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The site of the study will take place at Bayou University (a Pseudonym), using nursing
students enrolled in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program. The university is situated on a 287acre campus in a rural area of Louisiana. It serves a large population of first-generation college students and has consistently been designated as a military-friendly school. The total undergraduate enrollment consists of 5,918, of which 464 are nursing students. The demographics consist of: 73% Caucasian, 13% African American, 4% Hispanic, 4% American Indian, 3% Asian or Pacific Islander, 2% are of mixed race, and 1% are other. The majority of the students are females numbering 86% compared to only 14% males.
Research Procedures
The researcher will collect the data by conducting semi-structured in-depth, face-to-face interviews. The interview questions will be open-ended questions designed by the researcher and based on information surrounding the key concepts. The open-ended format will encourage the verbalization of thoughts and often require follow-up, congruent with the qualitative research methodology (Creswell & Poth, 2018). Qualitative interviews afford researcher prospects to provide an in-depth exploration into matters of unique experiences and human phenomena (McGrath et al., 2018).  All interviews will be transcribed and audio-recoded. These strategies provide the interviewer with valuable insight into their method of questioning, increasing awareness of potential problems and resolutions (Gall et al., 2007). All interviews will be conducted in a room free of distractions, which lends itself to audiotaping and privacy. Qualitative research should occur in a natural setting for the participants to feel comfortable and one that the researcher can make observations that might not be made in a laboratory (Creswell & Poth, 2018).
The researcher will use unstructured in-depth, one-on-one, face-to-face interviews. The interview questions will be open-ended questions designed by the researcher and based on key concepts. According to Creswell and Poth (2018), the open-ended format will encourage the verbalization of thoughts and often necessitate follow-up, congruent with the qualitative research methodology. All interviews will be transcribed and audio-recoded.
The interview questions and procedure will be piloted with one-two students to assess for the richness of dialogue and data collection. The pilot test will also be recorded. Gall et al. (2007) recommend conducting a thorough pilot test of the questionnaire prior to using it in your study that includes an area for the participants to provide subjective comments, e.g., recommendations, criticisms for improvements. The pilot test ensures that the participants in the study can understand the questions and are adept at completing the survey. A systematic review performed by Kallio et al. (2016) found that pilot testing the interview guide can provide for informed changes and adjustments of the questions and inform the interviewer if the time allotment is adequate so that adjustments can be made. It can also yield flaws and limitations of the design and overall research integrity,
If the individual circumstances fail to allow for a face-to-face session, Zoom Video conferencing format will be used instead. As new technology becomes increasingly available, researchers can incorporate new practices that can improve the speed and efficiency of the research interviewing process. Results of a study performed by Gray et al. (2020) reported that Zoom conferencing is cost-effective, easily accessed, and a convenient alternative for conducting qualitative interviews. Another essential advantage was of the Zoom format is the addition of password protection for confidentiality. Furthermore, participants' confidentiality will be protected because the host can record to their private and secure computer or their academic institutions' virtual storage. At the same time, the other option of storing to Zooms' storage may leave the data vulnerable (Gray et al., 2020).
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Data Collection
The researcher will create the interview questionnaire to contain all the features of a well-constructed questionnaire. It will begin with an introductory statement explaining the purpose of the study. Then, open-ended questions will be formulated to encourage the participants to elaborate on their views and experiences (Creswell & Guetterman, 2019). It is also vital that the questions are written to ascertain students' feelings about how their spiritual well-being affects indivi...