Critique- Elements influencing Robustness of the Research - Essay Example

Critique - Elements influencing Robustness of the Research, Part Designing an intervention: therapeutic showering of labor The purpose of the study is clearly identified on the page e73 when it says “The purpose of this article was to describe a process of developing a nursing intervention for laboring women using best available evidence.” The introduction clearly states that nurses sometimes must provide the type of care for their patients where there is not strong research evidence for intervention, so this type of intervention must be developed by researchers before it can be implemented and tested.

This research report does follow the steps of the research process in a logical manner, with a short introduction followed by a problem definition, the buildings blocks needed for intervention design, the actual intervention design, intervention validation, conclusion, acknowledgements, and references. Each step in the report is explained in depth and leads on naturally to the next step. The literature review is not all in one place but rather mentioned occasionally throughout all step of the report.

The vast majority of the literature is recent (i.e. in the last decade or so). While there are mentions of many literature reviews, there are a number of occasions where van Meijel et al. (2004) is used. The conclusion sums up by stating that van Meijel et al.’s model would be useful for nurses both in practice and research to develop and test nursing interventions. A large number of the references are from primary sources such as journals.