These are NOT my personal opinions. I am asking them for an informative essay that will be written towards dismissing these misconceptions. If you can answer them with answers that will dismiss these misconceptions about Nurses and the work that they do, it will be greatly appreciated. If I have offended anyone or made anyone upset, I am sorry but those were not my intentions. Please kind and positive as negativity is not needed or wanted. If you can please give me your opinions and personal experiences I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
OP, since you are barely taking English 101 and thus obviously near the beginning of your academic career, I don't expect you to understand yet how to conduct research properly, but perhaps reading into researcher bias (concepts you will learn about more in future statistics and/or research courses) will help you understand a little better why the way your questions as they are worded are particularly offensive and won't actually get you reliable data.
To cut to the chase, your particular error in framing your questions was "Surrogate Information Error" in the context of the article from that link. On top of that, the way you frame your questions is inherently already loaded with bias by making the misconceptions part of the question as if they were factual.
The most egregious example is question 5, "What other work is performed that makes a Nurse's job more than just grunt work?" Your phrasing implicitly implies that nursing work is "just grunt work" and that nurses must somehow prove that it is more than that. A more appropriate research question that would yield more reliable results would be something like, "What duties are performed by nurses?" There is no bias in that question, and it would get you the exact same answers, including the "grunt work" of course, but you'll come to find out that the "grunt work" you refer to is actually quite a small proportion of the work that nurses do.
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OP, since you are barely taking English 101 and thus obviously near the beginning of your academic career, I don't expect you to understand yet how to conduct research properly, but perhaps reading into researcher bias (concepts you will learn about more in future statistics and/or research courses) will help you understand a little better why the way your questions as they are worded are particularly offensive and won't actually get you reliable data.
Here's a link that kind of summarizes research bias and how to overcome it in your research: Tips for Overcoming Researcher Bias - FluidSurveys
To cut to the chase, your particular error in framing your questions was "Surrogate Information Error" in the context of the article from that link. On top of that, the way you frame your questions is inherently already loaded with bias by making the misconceptions part of the question as if they were factual.
The most egregious example is question 5, "What other work is performed that makes a Nurse's job more than just grunt work?" Your phrasing implicitly implies that nursing work is "just grunt work" and that nurses must somehow prove that it is more than that. A more appropriate research question that would yield more reliable results would be something like, "What duties are performed by nurses?" There is no bias in that question, and it would get you the exact same answers, including the "grunt work" of course, but you'll come to find out that the "grunt work" you refer to is actually quite a small proportion of the work that nurses do.