#777177 Topic: Qualitative Research Number of Pages: 1 (Double Spaced) Number of sources: 1 Writing Style: APA Type of document: Essay Category: Healthcare Language Style: English (U.S.) Order Instructions: Qualitative Research Researchers must make informed choices about the type of methodology that they use for a research study. This week, you have been considering how and when qualitative research methods should be employed, as well as the particular challenges involved in conducting this kind of research as opposed to quantitative research. To prepare for this Discussion, review the article "Revisiting Employee Benefits Managers" in this week's Learning Resources. This article describes a qualitative research study. Reflecting on this article as well as the other Learning Resources from this week, consider the following questions: What are the goals and purposes of this research study? Why do you think the researchers chose to use qualitative research for this study? How and why was interviewing, in particular, used? What other qualitative methods could be used to address the research issue discussed in this article? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these methods? How could findings from this study (using interviews) be used to conduct broader research involving surveys? By Day 4, post a comprehensive response to the following: Explain the purpose and characteristics of qualitative research. Describe at least two insights you gained from the article "Revisiting Employee Benefits Managers," as well as from this week's other Learning Resources. Identify one type of descriptive statistic or graph used by the authors in the article and explain why you think this element did—or did not—enhance the article. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of this particular research method: interviewing. Compare and contrast it with at least one other qualitative method that could be used to address the issue that is the focus of the article. #7178 Topic: Quantitative Research Designs Number of Pages: 1 (Double Spaced) Number of sources: 1 Writing Style: APA Type of document: Essay Category: Healthcare Language Style: English (U.S.) Order Instructions: Quantitative Research Designs This week, you have been learning about various quantitative research designs and types. To prepare for this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and consider the following questions: What are the differences between experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental research designs? What are the methods for conducting each research design? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each research design? How might various health care organizations use each of these quantitative research designs? Then, bring to mind a particular health care organization. Select a quantitative research design (experimental, quasi-experimental, or nonexperimental). Consider how the selected design could be of value for eva.

1. #777177 Topic: Qualitative Research
Number of Pages: 1 (Double Spaced)
Number of sources: 1
Writing Style: APA
Type of document: Essay
Category: Healthcare
Language Style: English (U.S.)
Order Instructions:
Qualitative Research
Researchers must make informed choices about the type of
methodology that they use for a research study. This week, you
have been considering how and when qualitative research
methods should be employed, as well as the particular
challenges involved in conducting this kind of research as
opposed to quantitative research.
To prepare for this Discussion, review the article "Revisiting
Employee Benefits Managers" in this week's Learning
Resources. This article describes a qualitative research study.

2. Reflecting on this article as well as the other Learning
Resources from this week, consider the following questions:
What are the goals and purposes of this research study?
Why do you think the researchers chose to use qualitative
research for this study? How and why was interviewing, in
particular, used?
What other qualitative methods could be used to address the
research issue discussed in this article? What are the strengths
and weaknesses of these methods?
How could findings from this study (using interviews) be used
to conduct broader research involving surveys?
By Day 4, post a comprehensive response to the following:
Explain the purpose and characteristics of qualitative research.
Describe at least two insights you gained from the article
"Revisiting Employee Benefits Managers," as well as from this
week's other Learning Resources.
Identify one type of descriptive statistic or graph used by the
authors in the article and explain why you think this element
did—or did not—enhance the article.
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of this particular
research method: interviewing. Compare and contrast it with at
least one other qualitative method that could be used to address
the issue that is the focus of the article.
#7178 Topic: Quantitative Research Designs

3. Number of Pages: 1 (Double Spaced)
Number of sources: 1
Writing Style: APA
Type of document: Essay
Category: Healthcare
Language Style: English (U.S.)
Order Instructions:
Quantitative Research Designs
This week, you have been learning about various quantitative
research designs and types.
To prepare for this Discussion, review the Learning Resources
and consider the following questions:
What are the differences between experimental, quasi-
experimental, and nonexperimental research designs?
What are the methods for conducting each research design?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of each research design?

4. How might various health care organizations use each of these
quantitative research designs?
Then, bring to mind a particular health care organization. Select
a quantitative research design (experimental, quasi-
experimental, or nonexperimental). Consider how the selected
design could be of value for evaluating a discrete or continuous
random variable of interest in this type of organization, then
select a specific variable of interest (e.g., negative outcomes or
cost) that would apply in the context (i.e., the particular health
care organization and the quantitative research design) of which
you are thinking.
By Day 4, post a comprehensive response to the following:
In the first line of your posting, identify the health care
organization, the quantitative research design, and the specific
variable of interest that you have selected.
State the type of variable (i.e., quantitative or qualitative),
identify the level of measurement, and indicate whether the
variable is discrete or continuous.
Describe the concepts and uses of the research design you have
selected and explain how a health care professional could apply
it in the type of organization you have chosen. As part of your
response, be sure to draw out your selected research design
graphically using a conceptual diagram (as illustrated in your
reading this week from Chapter 7 of the course text Health
Services Research Methods).
Does probability have a role in the execution of this type of
research? Explain why or why not.

5. Evaluate the particular strengths of this design for the purposes
you have described, as well as any potential limitations and/or
ethical constraints that might be a consideration.