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NURS 7383 Qualitative Methods II: Applications in Nursing Science

NURS 7383 Qualitative Methods II: Applications in Nursing Science

NURS 7383 Qualitative Methods II: Applications in Nursing Science

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to conceptualize a research problem from a qualitative perspective, to study one specific method (grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenology, hermeneutics), and to practice qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis in that method.  Students will have opportunities to write a mini-proposal guided by a qualitative research question and leading to a specific qualitative research approach to the problem.  There will be opportunities for participating in Mock reviews of qualitative research proposals (either as investigator or reviewer).  Students will learn the IRB approval process with qualitative proposals and will have opportunities to develop pilot research strategies building to a dissertation proposal.  Strategies will include interviewing, focus group, or participant observation following the selected method.  Through this process students will practice and learn strategies and processes for conceptualizing and implementing a qualitative study guided by a specific qualitative methodology.

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CREDIT AND TIME ALLOCATION

Credit Hour Allocation: 3 Semester Credit Hours
Clock Hour Allocation: 3 Clock Hours Class (45 hours class)

PREREQUISITES

  • NURS 7325 Philosophy of Nursing Science
  • NURS 7226 Ethics of Nursing Science
  • NURS 7374 Nursing: Quantitative Research Methods I
  • NURS 7380 Qualitative Inquiry for Clinical Nursing Research

PROGRAM OUTCOMES – NURS 7383 Qualitative Methods II: Applications in Nursing Science

Upon completion of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing Program students will:

  1. Advance the discipline of nursing through the generation of new knowledge and theory.
  2. Demonstrate excellence as a clinical researcher in the health sciences in a focal area of nursing.
  3. Synthesize theories from natural and/or behavioral sciences for application to a specified area of nursing.
  4. Advance evidence-based clinical practice.
  5. Assume nurse scientist roles within academic health centers and other health centers and other interdisciplinary health sciences and educational institutions.
  6. Evaluate the value and knowlege components of philosophical and ethical dimensions of issues confronting healthcare and nursing.

COURSE OUTCOMES

  1. Apply a specific qualitative research process to address a clinical nursing problem.
  2. Synthesize information about a health care problem that is amenable to nursing research into a mini proposal employing a qualitative research approach.
  3. Apply specific strategies appropriate to a selected qualitative method to collect data.
  4. Interpret qualitative data using initial coding procedures appropriate to the method and collected data.

CLINICAL OUTCOMES

N/A

GRADING SCALE FOR GRADUATE COURSES

A = 4 points (90-100)
B = 3 points (80-89)
C = 2 points (75-79)
D = 1 point (66-74)
F = 0 points (65 or below)

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION / GRADES

25% Interview
25% Photo Elicitation
25% Participant Observation
25% Coding/Analysis

100% Total

A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = Below 60%

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

  1. If written assignments are made in a course they are required.
  2. Students are expected to submit written work on the scheduled date and time.
  3. The student must notify the course coordinator prior to the scheduled due date and time if they are unable to submit the written work as scheduled. Failure to make this notification in advance will result in a “zero” for that written work.
  4. If the excuse is accepted as reasonable and necessary, arrangements will be made for an alternative due date and time.
  5. Each student is responsible for making sure that he or she has completed the written work prior to submission.
  6. Late work will be accepted with consequences as outlined per course syllabi.

APA GUIDELINES

The APA Publication Manual 6th edition is required for use in all nursing school programs.

REQUIRED TEXT / REFERENCE

RECOMMENDED (OPTIONAL) TEXT / REFERENCE

Kvale, S. (2009). InterViews: An introduction to qualitative reserch interviewing. Sage. ISBN: 978-0-7619-2542-2

Pink, S. (2007). Doing visual ethnography. Sage ISBN13-978-1-4129-2348-4

Richards, M. & Morse, J. (2007). README FIRST for a user’s guide to qualitative methods. Sage ISBN: 1-419-2743-9

Saldana, J. (2009). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Sage. ISBN:978-1-84747-549-5

Spradley, J.P. (1979) . The ethnographic interview. CA: Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning. ISBN: 10:0-03-044496-9

Spradley, J.P. (1980). Participant observation. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. ISBN: 30445019

Wolcott, H.F. (2009). Writing up qualitative research. 3rd ed. Sage. 978-1-4129-7011-2

CONTENT OUTLINE – NURS 7383 Qualitative Methods II: Applications in Nursing Science

I. Specific qualitative research design

  1. qualitative research questions (specific to selected method)
  2. framing the problem in qualitative language and building to research question
  3. use of literature to frame a specific qualitative research problem
  4. describing strategies to assure rigor in qualitative research
  5. protection of human subjects participating in qualitative research

II.  Interviewing
III.  Participant observation strategies
IV.  Data management
V.   Coding Techniques
VI.  Ethics of qualitative research