Quantifying the Cost of Pressure Injuries in Australian Aged Care

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Table of Contents Title Page1 Introduction3 Methodology3-5 Sampling5-6 Ethics6 Conclusion6-7 References………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Critique Essay: The direct cost of pressure injuries in an Australian residential aged care setting Introduction Nursing is a compassionate job as it involves direct contact with people in dire need of health-related solutions. To this effect, a nurse must work following the set nursing standard to enhance the effective relationship with the target audiences and success in meeting their health-related demands. However, a nurse must express defined abilities while analyzing nursing practices, as nursing information will not always be as direct as one would expect. There is the need to be a critical thinker to maintain the capability for practice and evaluate outcomes to inform nursing practice. Therefore, this essay aims at gauging such abilities by providing a thorough critique of "The direct cost of pressure injuries in an Australian residential aged care setting" article by Wilson, Kapp, and Santamaria about methodology, sampling, and ethics. Methodology Wilson, Kappa, and Santamaria employed a quantitative method in their observational longitudinal panel study. Basically, these authors aimed to "develop a costing tool to quantify the direct cost of PI treatment in the residential aged care setting" (Wilson, Kappa, and Santamaria, 2019). The quantitative method is often used in nursing research as it provides objective data that the researcher can comfortably communicate through statistics and numbers (Sun et al., 2018). According to these authors, many scholars argue that quantitative research is more scientific than qualitative research, which best response to the scientific nature of the nursing demands, but this does not justify ignorance of qualitative methods in science-related fields. However, many scholars have ignored the qualitative method path arguing that it offers a simple