NURS362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Data Management, Grounded Theory, Sample Size Determination
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Outcome - description of a series of events; reports, books; events that shaped healthcare practice problems using a pragmatic approach - more scientific/stepwise. Researcher explores own personal feelings and experiences that would influence things. Be very aware of that when you"re going into interviews. Integrates the understanding of own personal feelings into the study. Similar to reflexive thought but you don"t want to misinterpret phenomenon. Used to help researcher avoid misinterpreting phenomenon as it is being experienced by. Bracketing is suspending or laying aside what researcher knows about experience being studied: data reduction categories, coding. You have volumes of data and you slowly reduce it to concepts and put them in different. Every time somebody uses this word it"s going to be the category of fear . Analysis focuses on reducing the large volume of acquired data to facilitate examination. Researcher begins to attach meaning to elements of data. Researcher discovers classes of things, persons, events, and properties.