XUO3583 Nursing Research 2

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Špirudová, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
In the introduction to the course, nursing is specified as a field of science with its own subject of research, theoretical models, standard terminology and classification systems and methodology. What follows is a chapter showing how to formulate a research problem, a research question and research goals. The chapter Quantitative Research is focused mainly on mastering of basic research techniques - standardized tests and scales, on principles of making of original questionnaires and their first and second stages of assessment. The chapter Qualitative Research provides knowledge about basic techniques of quantitative data collection - interview, monitoring, document analysis, case report sets. It instructs students how to assess quantitative data by means of a cluster formation method, grounded theory, matrix formation etc. The aim of this course is to present fundamentals of scientific methods of the field to students of nursing and to teach them to draft and execute as well as assess a simple empiric research in clinical nursing.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to sector research. Definition of science. Scientific findings. Typical features of modern sciences.
    2. Specification of the term "research" and its types. Science, scientific approach, basic and applied research. Research in medicine. Classification systems in nursing.
    3. Scientific approach, resources of human knowledge, description of a scientific approach.
    4. Ethics of a scientific approach in nursing. The ethical code of an institution dealing with research. The ethical code of a scientist. Ethics of scientific research in medicine and nursing.
    5. Research stages: preparatory stage, research project, subject of the research (hypothesis and its types, methods and techniques, processing, organization of research).
    6. Priorities of research for the 21st century in nursing.
    7. Individual stages of preparation and execution of a research process.
    8. Formulation of a research problem, work with information sources. Searching - formulation and elaboration of a research problem.
    9. Methods, techniques and strategies of research - summary, stages of a scientific proof. Basics for selection of a method, technique and strategy for specific research work. Variables in research - carrier - a source of primary data and information. Secondary data in research.
    10. Information systems for research and development. Research and development databases. A structure of publicized scientific research work.
    11. EBP (EBN).
    12. Assignment and consultations of the upcoming project for credit allocation for WT - formulation of an individual research problem, searching for relevant studies in both Czech and foreign sources.
    13. Quantitative research method. Causality and inductive methods in scientific findings. Causal tasks, causal systems. Inductive methods.
    14. Quantitative methodology of research in nursing - basic principles and processes. Formulation of hypotheses. Formulation of research questions.
    15. Techniques of quantitative research - tests, questionnaires, scales.
    16. Data assessment methods - frequency table, mean values, graphs. Hypothesis testing. Responses to research questions found out in the research.
    17. Generalization of results, comparison to results from different studies.
    18. Qualitative research method. Using of qualitative methods in research. Qualitative methodology - basic principles and procedures.
    19. Qualitative research in sciences about humans at the threshold of the 3rd millennium.
    20. Specific techniques of data and information collection - monitoring, interview.
    21. Causal systems, case reports.
    22. Assessment of qualitative data by methods of cluster forming, grounded theory, matrix forming etc.
    23. EBP - EBN, method of PICO(T).
    24. Project planning. Elaboration of an individual research problem to the form of a grant project.
    25. Critical reviewing of a scientific article.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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