Hofling Study for Social Approach Describe and Evaluate
Everything you need to know to answer a question on Hofling's Nurse and Doctor study according to the edexcel exam board at AS level
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- Hofling: Describe and Evaluate
- Evaluate
- Generalisability
- High at time because nurses were female
- Low for modern day because there were no males in the study
- Reliability
- High because everything was measured and controlled e.g. scripted phone call, medication, etc
- Application
- High because the understanding helped to change the way nurses were taught to help patients
- Validity
- Construct was low because they expected nurses to put patient safety first
- Ecological was high because it was in the actual hospital where the nurses worked
- Experimental was high because the nurses did not know they were in a study
- High because cause and effect proved.
- Ethics
- No informed consent and therefore no right to withdraw because of deception
- Hofling was competent and there was a debrief
- Debreif showed that nurses were upset at deception
- No informed consent and therefore no right to withdraw because of deception
- Debreif showed that nurses were upset at deception
- Generalisability
- Describe
- Aim
- To investigate the relationship between Dr and Nurse in terms of Obedience
- Procedure
- Groups of nurses from a variety of different hospitals
- Phone call to give an unknown medicine in excessive amount to a patient
- Phone call from an unfamiliar Dr
- "Astroten: ususal dose 5mg, maximum 10mg
- Placebo
- Call ended if
- Comply
- Refuse
- upset
- Could not find medication
- Longer than 10 minutes
- Wanted to refer to another Dr
- Observer to ensure safety
- Results
- 21/22 Nurses gave the patient the drug
- Very few even questioned the order
- Conclusion
- Nurses will disobey protocol to do as a Dr asks
- The relationship between Dr and Nurse is potentially life threatening for the patient
- Aim
- Evaluate
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