1 CPD research Student name Instructor name Course title Date Introduction Training department has been experiencing a decline in the attendance of the nurses to the CPD activities for the last two years. Based on this decline, it is important as a training department to look forward examining some of the factors that might have led to the decline. Therefore, a survey which involves a cross sectional study design was mandatory to investigate these factors. The primary aim of the survey was to collect data using questionnaires on what motivated the nurses to attend the continuing professional development (CPD) activities along with the impact of these activities on the nurses’ performance as they perceived. The department will be trying to find strategies that will enhance CPD participation. However, the finding will be used to improve attendance and planning the next year continuing professional activities annual plan. The research managed to collect qualitative data. The dependent variables are variables that change based on other variables, thus these variables are the questions asked to the respondent such as what motivated them to undertake CPD activities, the strategies they consider to enhance their CPD activities and how these strategies impact their learning including their colleagues and organization and also how they can measure the impact of the CPD they attended on their growth and development and effectiveness of the strategies identified. The independent variables are variables that do not change based on other variables. In this case, the independent variables are the responses from the participants. Research questions There were four research questions. These are as follows; · What motivates them to undertake CPD activities? · What strategies do they consider in enhancing your CPD activities? · How these strategies made impact on their as a learner, to their colleagues or the organization in which they work? · How do they measure the impact of the CPD they attended on their growth and development and the effectiveness of the strategies identified? Research hypothesis Hypothesis The hypothesis is the proposed explanation with limited evidence that guide the research by giving it a starting point. In most cases, the research consist of two hypotheses, this include null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis. The null hypothesis is the hypothesis that has no significant difference between the specified populations while alternative hypothesis is the hypothesis that has a significant difference between the specified populations. Hypothesis one Null hypothesis: There is no significant difference between the respondent views. Alternative hypothesis: There is a significant difference between the respondent views. Or H0: μr=μr where r represent respondent views H1: μrμr Hypothesis two Null hypothesis: There are no significant factors led to decline in the attendance of the nurses to the CPD activities for the last two ...

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CPD research
Student name
Instructor name
Course title
Date
Introduction
Training department has been experiencing a decline in the
attendance of the nurses to the CPD activities for the last two
years. Based on this decline, it is important as a training
department to look forward examining some of the factors that
might have led to the decline. Therefore, a survey which
involves a cross sectional study design was mandatory to
investigate these factors. The primary aim of the survey was to
collect data using questionnaires on what motivated the nurses
to attend the continuing professional development (CPD)
activities along with the impact of these activities on the
nurses’ performance as they perceived. The department will be
trying to find strategies that will enhance CPD participation.
However, the finding will be used to improve attendance and
planning the next year continuing professional activities annual
plan. The research managed to collect qualitative data. The
dependent variables are variables that change based on other
variables, thus these variables are the questions asked to the
respondent such as what motivated them to undertake CPD
activities, the strategies they consider to enhance their CPD

2. activities and how these strategies impact their learning
including their colleagues and organization and also how they
can measure the impact of the CPD they attended on their
growth and development and effectiveness of the strategies
identified. The independent variables are variables that do not
change based on other variables. In this case, the independent
variables are the responses from the participants.
Research questions
There were four research questions. These are as follows;
· What motivates them to undertake CPD activities?
· What strategies do they consider in enhancing your CPD
activities?
· How these strategies made impact on their as a learner, to
their colleagues or the organization in which they work?
· How do they measure the impact of the CPD they attended on
their growth and development and the effectiveness of the
strategies identified?
Research hypothesis
Hypothesis
The hypothesis is the proposed explanation with limited
evidence that guide the research by giving it a starting point. In
most cases, the research consist of two hypotheses, this include
null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis. The null hypothesis
is the hypothesis that has no significant difference between the
specified populations while alternative hypothesis is the
hypothesis that has a significant difference between the
specified populations.
Hypothesis one
Null hypothesis: There is no significant difference between the
respondent views.
Alternative hypothesis: There is a significant difference
between the respondent views.
Or
H0: μr=μr where r represent respondent views
H1: μrμr

3. Hypothesis two
Null hypothesis: There are no significant factors led to decline
in the attendance of the nurses to the CPD activities for the last
two years.
Alternative hypothesis: There are significant factors that led to
decline in the attendance of the nurses to the CPD activities for
the last two years.
Or
H0: μ=0
H1: μr0
Methods of analysis
Based on the method used to collect data and the type of
data collected, the method of analysis that will be appropriate to
this research will involve both qualitative and quantitative
research. Qualitative analysis involves describing the responds
given by the respondent while quantitative analysis involves
gives information based on numbers. Therefore, we shall
convert the qualitative data collected to quantitative data to
carry out quantitative analysis. One sample test will be used to
test the significant of the questions and descriptive statistics
will be used to identify the answers that have more response.
Also; the statistical tool that will be used to analyze the data
will be SPSS (Savin-Baden, 2014).
Results output
One-Sample Statistics
N
Mean
Std. Deviation
Std. Error Mean
What motivates you to undertake CPD activities?
11

4. 22.7273
19.73875
5.95146
What strategies do you consider in enhancing your CPD
activities?
11
9.0909
8.23959
2.48433
How these strategies made impact on you as a learner, to your
colleagues or the organisation in which you work?
10
14.6000
9.47746
2.99704
How do you measure the impact of the CPD you attended on
your growth and development and the effectiveness of the
strategies identified?
16
13.9375
14.95089
3.73772
One-Sample Test
Test Value = 0
t
df
Sig. (2-tailed)
Mean Difference
95% Confidence Interval of the Difference

5. Lower
Upper
What motivates you to undertake CPD activities?
3.819
10
.003
22.72727
9.4666
35.9879
What strategies do you consider in enhancing your CPD
activities?
3.659
10
.004
9.09091
3.5555
14.6263
How these strategies made impact on you as a learner, to your
colleagues or the organization in which you work?
4.871
9
.001
14.60000
7.8202
21.3798
How do you measure the impact of the CPD you attended on
your growth and development and the effectiveness of the
strategies identified?
3.729
15
.002
13.93750
5.9707
21.9043

6. Descriptive Statistics
What motivates you to undertake CPD activities?
What strategies do you consider in enhancing your CPD
activities?
How these strategies made impact on you as a learner, to your
colleagues or the organization in which you work?
How do you measure the impact of the CPD you attended on
your growth and development and the effectiveness of the
strategies identified?
N
Valid
11
11
10
16
Missing
9
9
10
4
Minimum
4.00
2.00
4.00
1.00
Maximum
64.00
28.00
34.00

7. 44.00
Bar graphs
The central tendency of the first question is 22.7273 which
is higher as compared to other questions. This implies that most
individuals respondent to the first questions. Also, the first
question had a high standard deviation which means that there
were more spread response to the question as compared to
others. Based on the result of one sample t test, the degree of
freedom of the questions were, 10,10,9 and 15 respectively. The
P-value of all the questions are 0.003, 0.004, 0.001 and 0.002
respectively. These P-values are less than 0.05, which means
the questions were all significant. Thus we shall reject the null
hypothesis for hypothesis one and accept alternative hypothesis
which says that there is a significant difference between the
respondent views (Verma, J. 2013).
Furthermore, based on descriptive statistics the maximum
values represent the question that had more response as
compared to other questions. Also, the bar graphs displays the
highest bar shows the most preferred needs by the nurses.
Therefore, most of the individual claimed that the motives that
made them to undertake CPD activities was the updates
knowledge and skills and closely followed by the collection of
CPD credit points. Also, most of the respondent considered
reading and reviewing internet in enhancing their CPD
activities. However, these strategies impacted most of the
individual’s knowledge and skills updates and improved and
increased competency. The measure of impact of the CPD
attended by every individual on their growth and development
along with the effectiveness of the strategies identified had a
significant difference. Based on the results, most of the

8. respondent claimed that it has improved the quality of care such
as work patient care, efficient in patient care and less patient
incident and admission. In addition, other claims that CPD has
helped to apply the new practice to clinic. From these results,
the null hypothesis will be rejected and we conclude that there
are significant factors that led to decline in the attendance of
the nurses to the CPD activities for the last two years.
Conclusion
The aim of the research was to collect data using
questionnaires on what motivated the nurses to attend the
continuing professional development (CPD) activities along
with the impact of these activities on the nurses’ performance as
they perceived. This was due to the decline in attendance by
nurses to CPD activities. We therefore realize most of the
nurses were motivated by update knowledge and skills. Also; we
shall incorporate the reading and review from internet to
capture the nurses’ attention to attend the CPD training. These
strategies helped most of the nurses to gain knowledge and
skills updates and increased their competency in working.
Previously, the measure of CPD was rated as a tool to improve
quality of care including work patient improvement, efficient in
patient care and less patient incident and admission.
Reference
Verma, J. (2013). Data Analysis in Management with SPSS
Software. doi:10.1007/978-81-322-0786-3
Savin-Baden, M., & Wimpenny, K. (2014). Issues of Analysis,

9. Intepretation and Representation. A Practical Guide to Arts-
related Research, 63-79. doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-815-2_5
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