[Nursing 3340A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 3340A/B
• Professor: Christina Hurlock- Chorostecki

Document Summary

Example methodology: phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, narrative. Ontology: assumption about the nature of reality (i. e. based on personal interpretation; reality is an objective truth) Epistemology: set assumptions about the relationship b/w the knower and the known (i. e. being objective and have little effect on the outcome, or actively co-construct knowledge) Induction: concrete ideas abstract ideas, principles, or laws (theory building) Gather data look for patterns develop theory. Deduction: abstract ideas, principles, or laws concrete details (theory testing and refinement) Theorize/hypothesize analyze data hypotheses supported or not. 4 main types: exploration (ethnography, trying to uncover phenomena of interest, how are things related to each other, natural groups of things here, description (phenomenology, precise, qualitative or quantitative or both, comparison (interpretive/hermeneutics) Identifying features that a sample shares or does not share: can be qualitative or quantitative, developing models (theories, test hypotheses against observations, quant. , qual. , or both, ka(cid:374)te(cid:396)"s theo(cid:396)(cid:455) of st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)al e(cid:373)po(cid:449)e(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, i(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilit(cid:455), (cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:374)out, a(cid:374)d o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al commitment.