My eagerly anticipated placement in the Emergency Department is about to begin. It is 7 o’clock in the morning, I am a bleary eyed and apprehensive as I make my entrance into the department for the first time. A central nurse/doctor station is surrounded by rows of curtained cubicles through which I can discern the […]
Month: November 2009
Confidence Intervals
It is well recognised that many students and qualified nurses alike struggle to get their heads around statistics. Confidence intervals are essential to understanding nursing research, but can instil feelings of blind panic in the uninitiated. Like so many technical concepts they are intimidating when you don’t understand them, but not so difficult once you […]