Nursing 3340A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feminist Theory, Dependent And Independent Variables, Photovoice

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 3340A/B
• Professor: stephenlin

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Today"s age(cid:374)da: review of syllabus, deliverables, use of owl, grading, review of research and our focus, arrow framework, course content. The myth of common sense: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=d9xf0qozwm0 (15:14) Research example: patient restraint minimization act (prma) 2001, the common & acceptable practice of restraining patients now illegal. Immediate response of icu staff: (cid:862)icu is different and conforming to the prma is i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le(cid:863, thought (np and 2 rns), the(cid:374) let"s de(cid:373)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)ate to se(cid:374)io(cid:396) leade(cid:396)s (cid:449)hy it is i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le to do minimal restraints in the icu. Ways of knowing: empirical, personal, ethical, aesthetic. N3340 week 1 lecture: ontology, epistemology, methodology. Paradigm: models or frameworks derived from a worldview or belief system about the nature of knowledge and existence, how you see and know the world, can use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approaches. In this course we will focus on the quantitative (positivist) and qualitative (interpretivist) paradigms: pa(cid:396)adig(cid:373) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es , ontology, epistemology, methodology, choice of research methodology(ies) including selection of data analysis approach(es)