Sunday, August 31, 2008

Reviewing questions for next focus group

Ive been doing some thinking about what questions were really useful - and ive come to the agreement that they were all useful - the ones that i used.
I didnt really need to go into what skills and knowledge were essential - as the participants generally talked about them - however i still want to leave it in there just incase they dont discuss them.

Talking about challenging situations was great - we got some lovely examples and it really stimulated ideasas to why they were challenging.

Talking about support was a major theme that came through - the preferable/what was there. But the interesting thing was that the participant thought new grads were suitable for acute as long as the right support was available. So i think getting a clear picture of support is really important in the data collection phase - furthermore - discussing the reality of the work enviro and "why" this impacts the suitablity is also important to talk about.

I want to add in a question around the suitablity in specific settings following the discussion about whether or not they suit acute settings and whether they would employ in this area. I want to put this in because one participant perspection was that orthopaedics was not suitable - but no other participants agreed or disagreed; nor did they mension their own perspeptions of their settings e.g. neuro/med etc. So id like to add in a question if someone mensions in the next f.group about specific areas/suitability.

Jess

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