solved Please post a scholarly reply to this“Descriptive analysis is used

Please post a scholarly reply to this“Descriptive analysis is used when nurses check trends in vital signs, when they review infection rates for a clinical unit, and when they calculate average length of stay for clients with certain diagnoses” (Houser, 2018). Descriptive analysis data shows validity, reliability, and applicability. Descriptive analysis or statistics also allows individuals to convert a large amount of data into one big picture that is easy to understand and interpret. Inferential analysis “displays data using methods to show how closely the people who participated in a study represent the entire population of interest” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2020). In other words, inferential analysis takes a sample of the population and suggests that is how the entire population will act, be, show, etc. based off of the smaller samples that were analyzed. Qualitative analysis is used to understand the meaning and or experience of a phenomena. Qualitative data is not based off of cause and effect, numbers, or controlling an experiment but rather looking for the meaning behind a lived experience. I like the idea of qualitative analysis in the nursing field, because instead of just looking at a bunch of numbers, researchers are looking into how a certain situation affected the person who experienced it, how it made them feel, what it made them do, what can be improved for a better experience next time etc. Qualitative analysis is very diverse from your typical research. Data analysis is necessary to find reliable, high quality, factual information to incorporate into patient care or healthcare settings. With out reliable data analysis you would not know if something was going to be effective for patients or even harmful to them.“Statistical significance is present when the differences between two groups in the study sample are unlikely to have happened by error or change” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2020). Statistical significance states that something is less likely to happen randomly or by chance and is more likely to have happen due to a specific cause. On the other hand, “clinical significance is generally expected to reflect the extent to which an intervention can make a real difference in patients’ lives” (Houser, 2018). For example, clinical significance could be determined by a medication decreasing someone’s pain 2 – 3 numbers on a pain scale of 0 – 10 (Polit, 2017). This example shows improvement in an individual’s life as their pain is being decreased. For myself, clinical significance is more important to me in the nursing practice. I think when the actual patient is taken into consideration and the patients’ situation, and feelings, and circumstances, are considered that is what matters. I think trying to make a patient’s life better in any aspect of their health is more important than if something happened by chance or not.