NUR 80A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deductive Reasoning, Determinism, Randomness
14 Mar 2020
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Woo et al. (2019), chapters 1, chapter 3 (pp. Basic research extend the base of knowledge appropriate for discovering general principles may do a study without having explicit nursing applications in mind i. e. a study to better understand grieving processes. Applied research finding solutions to existing problems designed to show how principles can be used to solve problems in nursing practice i. e. a study to determine the effectiveness of a nursing intervention to ease grieving. Purposes of nursing research (cont"d) (refer to table 1. 2, p. 12 in woo et al. , 2019) Type of questions that could be asked for each purpose. Exploration look at the factors related to x. Explanation look at the causes, using deductive reasoning. A paradigm is: a world view or a general perspective a way of looking at the world from different angles. Constructivist (naturalistic) (refer to table 1. 1, p. 7 in woo, 2019) Researcher uses logic and objective approach to knowledge.
