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This 4 page paper discusses different data collection methods and comments on the advantages and disadvantages of each. Examples include interviews, Online surveys, document review. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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341). The author says that interviews are vital in the data gathering process because they will provide information that cannot be obtained in any other way (Martin, 2000). Besides direct
information, the consultant will gain indirect information from the interviewees nonverbal language (Martin, 2000). The advantage with interviews is the amount of information that can be obtained, often, information about
the underlying problems the consultant may not be able to obtain in any other way. The disadvantage of interviews is that they are very time-consuming (Martin, 2000). They take time
to conduct and twice as much time to write up to determine what the problems are (Martin, 2000). Barrett (2005) reported on the importance of consultation approach when nurse practitioners
interviewed patients. Medical appointments begin with an interview, in this case, the nurse practitioner interviewing the patient to determine the reason for the patients visit (Barrett, 2005). Barrett identified different
ways in which patients self-present, for example, Seekers who are seeking treatment, Confirmers who are checking the severity of their illness, Clinical Presenters who provide a clinical history, and Seekers
to Confirmers who begin as Seekers but during the process, change to Confirmers and Anticipators who anticipate the need for treatment (p. 329). Barrett found that nurse practitioners respond
to patients with the voice of nursing, meaning "they respond to patient dialogues with both the everyday subjectivity of the voice of the lifeworld and the scientific objectivity of the
voice of medicine" (Barrett, 2005, p. 330). Barrett observed that nurse practitioners change their interview approach based on the self-presentation of patients (Barrett, 2005). The outcome of Barretts study was
that nurse practitioners are as effective as physicians in interviewing patients, and, in some cases, more effective. Document analysis is an important part of a consultants toolkit. From documents, the
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