Time Management Research Project

LaTonya Cawley · Apr 18, 2023

4/18 New Survey link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VV755L2

LaTonya Cawley · Aug 6, 2023

To: ALLNURSES Undergraduate Nursing Students

From: LaTonya Cawley, RN, BSN (proxy)

Are you an undergraduate nursing student? Do you struggle with time management? If so, this is your opportunity to learn more about time management. You are invited to participate in a Time Management Capstone Project by watching a video on time management tips and techniques and taking a before and after survey. The video will teach you ways to increase your productivity by eliminating unnecessary procrastination and time-wasting activities. Ms. Johnson requests your voluntary participation in this project. The project will consist of Time Management Behavior Scale before and after surveys and a Time Management Workshop Video. If you need additional clarification, please reach out to [email protected]. To begin the study if you choose to participate, simply click on the SurveyMonkey link at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VV755L2 to view the informed consent and details of the project. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Tenebrae, BSN, RN · Aug 6, 2023

Problem with this method of recruiting is that you rely on people to be honest.

You may find you don't get a sample size indicative of your preferred population

And to be blunt, recruiting on a nursing forum seems rather like taking the easy way out while not gettting a sample indicative of your chosen population

LaTonya Cawley · Aug 6, 2023

Tenebrae I appreciate your feedback. I am the proxy. We are limited in what we are able to do by the IRB that approved this study project. That IRB governs every aspect of this study. The hope in using this forum is the ability to make contact with a larger audience. Time Management is a skill that is very valuable to nurses. Helping nursing students solidify this skill early in their career has major upside. If you know of any ADN or BSN nursing students, please share this post with them.

chare · Aug 6, 2023

LaTonya Cawley said:

Tenebrae I appreciate your feedback. I am the proxy. We are limited in what we are able to do by the IRB that approved this study project. That IRB governs every aspect of this study. ...

And they find it acceptable to solicit on an anonymous forum?

LaTonya Cawley · Aug 6, 2023

Chare, this study was approved to be posted on this platform by the platform and the IRB. Again, readers who are not currently enrolled in nursing school pursuing RN designation are encouraged to share this Time Management Research Study with nursing students who are. The Survey itself is anonymous which allows for a greater degree of honesty. Criticism of this approach to find participants is an individual's right. I only submit that sharing this post with currently enrolled ADN and BSN nursing school students is a better use of your time.

Emergent, RN · Aug 7, 2023

This is the whole problem with the so-called 'evidence-based' research being done. This is utterly unscientific. Academia needs to greatly tighten up its standards if they want to win my respect, which they lost quite a few years back...

LaTonya Cawley · Aug 7, 2023

Emergent, as the proxy for this DNP school project I am committed to: making the posts that are approved by her program's IRB; answering inquiries regarding the survey; and recruiting/assisting the participants.

Time Management skill development is not on the same academic importance level of developing a life saving drug. The information contained in the video for this research project is evidence based. Sources are sited and again the program's IRB approved everything pertaining to her school project. As a school project on something meaningful but not intended to create any new hospital gold standard, this platform and the IRB's academic criteria are sufficient enough for her to learn the research process from start to finish.

As far as faith in evidence based research and 'Academia' goes, it can only be strengthened by people matriculating through the process and being honest about difficulties with those processes. If you have made up and closed your mind on any matter, I am wise enough to respect that as a fact.

Tenebrae, BSN, RN · Aug 8, 2023

LaTonya Cawley said:

Emergent, as the proxy for this DNP school project I am committed to: making the posts that are approved by her program's IRB; answering inquiries regarding the survey; and recruiting/assisting the participants.

Time Management skill development is not on the same academic importance level of developing a life saving drug. The information contained in the video for this research project is evidence based. Sources are sited and again the program's IRB approved everything pertaining to her school project. As a school project on something meaningful but not intended to create any new hospital gold standard, this platform and the IRB's academic criteria are sufficient enough for her to learn the research process from start to finish.

As far as faith in evidence based research and 'Academia' goes, it can only be strengthened by people matriculating through the process and being honest about difficulties with those processes. If you have made up and closed your mind on any matter, I am wise enough to respect that as a fact.

As I previously said, you have no way in verifying whether the people who answer the study questions are actually student nurses.

Your email address is a gmail account. if you are connected to an academic institution, why do you not have a professional email ?

As a clinical liason nurse for my unit. I would be using this study as an example of how not to do research.

LaTonya Cawley · Aug 8, 2023

Tenebrae, what do you really want to accomplish by posting on this thread repeatedly?

I'm the proxy and not affiliated with the school that approved this Time Management Research Study. I can use my personal email address and the IRB approved. This is something that I am doing as a personal favor. The announcement requests that currently enrolled RN Students participate under the promise of anonymity. General information studies are not held to the same standards as clinical trials.

What you do at your job is between you and your employer. I will not be answering any other comments made by you.

Tenebrae, BSN, RN · Aug 8, 2023

LaTonya Cawley said:

Tenebrae, what do you really want to accomplish by posting on this thread repeatedly?

I'm the proxy and not affiliated with the school that approved this Time Management Research Study. I can use my personal email address and the IRB approved. This is something that I am doing as a personal favor. The announcement requests that currently enrolled RN Students participate under the promise of anonymity. General information studies are not held to the same standards as clinical trials.

What you do at your job is between you and your employer. I will not be answering any other comments made by you.

Good for you. The whole thing around you being a proxy and having no connection to an actual educational institution comes across as incredibly dodgy.

What do I hope to accomplish by posting on this thread. As someone with a double degree, post grad diploma in health sciences with a strong back ground in research, I hope to educate around what makes for good research designs and proposals and ensuring that nursing research is advance through best practice.

Coming onto an internet message board with a questionare that has no way in verifying that student nurses are actually answering the questions is not going to produce research that can be verified or generalised to the larger population.

Metaphorically throwing ones toys out of the cot because you don't like the responses given also comes across as hinky.

But like I said, if you are going to claim that your population sample is X amount of student nurses, you need to have a way to verify that