NUR 80A/B Chapter : Fall Week 1 - Introducing Research
13 Dec 2011
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Empirical evidence: evidence rooted in objective reality and gathered through the senses rather than personal beliefs or guesses; Positivist paradigm: traditional scientific approach to conducting research. Positivists seek to be objective at all times. Calls for orderly, disciplined procedures to test the researcher"s ideas about the nature of the phenomena in question and relationships among them. Most closely allied with quantitative research: systematic reasoning, numbers and control. Naturalistic paradigm: assumes that knowledge is maximized when the distance between researcher and subject is minimized. The voices and interpretations of those under study are key to understanding the phenomena. Most closely allied with qualitative research: collecting and analyzing narrative, subjective materials. General purpose is to answer questions or solve problems of relevance to the nursing profession. Identification: when so little is known about the phenomena, it has yet to be identified or named. Description: main objective of nursing research is the description and explanation of phenomena related to the nursing profession.
