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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on philosophical and theoretical issues involved in the discovery and verification of theory in various disciplines. Students are asked to examine various patterns of knowing and to investigate the implications of the words I know. Levels of certainty gained through various processes and various theories of truth are explored. The process of questioning what one knows and from whom or from where one has gained the knowledge will be explored. This includes the idea of questioning authority and the dangers in blind obedience. Using the method delineated by Walker and Avant, the various methods of theory development are analyzed. Differences in theories developed from abductive, inductive, and deductive methods are compared. The contextual relevance of theory to practice is discussed. Students get the opportunity to do a comprehensive critique of a theory and, in this way, to integrate the various content discussed in the course. The course begins the process of looking at various theories as they relate to advance practice. This will be further developed in the next course.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of quantitative research designs and methods and scientific inquiry from the viewpoint of the positivistic paradigm. Focus is placed on descriptive, correlational, experimental and quasi-experimental designs as applied to nursing problems. Emphasis will be placed on multi-dimensional methods designed to explore complex health care and nursing problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the application of measurement theory and psychometric techniques to the development, use, and evaluation of measurement instruments for nursing and health care research. The operationalization of concepts, assessment of reliability and validity, and appropriate and ethical use of measurement instruments are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the analysis of research traditions that guide the collection and analysis of qualitative data in the development of nursing science. Included are naturalistic, conceptual, interpretive and analytical research methods such as phenomenology, grounded theory, case study, ethnography, hermeneutics and historical approaches. The course is designed to provide half the menu of research methods available to nurse researchers. As such, it complements the Quantitative Methods course and can be taken before, after, or concurrently with Quantitative Methods.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the major research trends in nursing and health care. Discussion includes emphasis on the prevalent complex problems and the dominant methodologies used to investigate these. The current state of the art of nursing research and the effect of nationally determined research agendas on the type and quality of research is emphasized.
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1.00 Credits
Introduction to expectations for the nurse scientist role and to approaches which foster strong scholarly work. This course will include an on-site intense week coupled with an on-line seminar.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an opportunity to study a specific area that is not covered in depth by another course. Students will work with a faculty member to develop specific learning objectives, assessment, and evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consist of analysis, synthesis and application of selected health policy issue and leadership needed to influence the political system at all stages in the policy process. The course will focus on elements of the policy process, outcomes, and nursing leadership necessary to impact the policy process to effect change. Students will have selected opportunities that will allow them to focus on and examine key health policy concepts, models of analysis and theories. Students will be involved in a front-line examination and evaluation of the policy process. Students will examine health policy and politics as they relate to current health issues within a policy framework. The course will provide students an opportunity to review health policy research and see the relationship of it to all phases of the policy process. The course will specifically focus on analysis of key factors affecting and influencing policy and policy decisions and the application of them through selected classroom readings, case studies, and optional policy experiences.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with hands-on experience with various aspects of the research process by participating in faculty research in an area consistent with students' plans for dissertation research. Students may have an opportunity to participate in data collection, data management, data analysis, preparation for research presentations and publications related to a study already in progress. Students may participate in grant writing or the design of pilot studies. The exact content of the practicum will be negotiated based on the students' background and future goals as well as available resources and faculty resources.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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