Nursing

Nursing Research4

Investigação em Enfermagem

Course code:9500315

Cidália Maria da Cruz Silva Patacas de Castro

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Goals:

  • Develop analytical skills to understand the results of health research in light of the methodologies used.
  • Reflect on the importance of the knowledge produced through the scientific investigation in the care process in nursing.

Skills:

  • Identifies scientific paradigms and relationship with knowledge patterns.
  • Interprets reports of qualitative and quantitative studies.
  • Analyzes scientific articles taking into account their validity and applicability in nursing practice.
  • Recognizes research as a contribution to the development of nursing and as a means for the improvement of nursing care.
  • Searches properly in the different sources of information.
  • Identifies the ethical principles of research work.
  • Participates in research.
  • Values the need for dissemination of scientific works.
Syllabus:
  1. LITERATURE REVIEWS
    Approaches to various types of literature reviews.
    Preparation of RSL protocol.
    Elaboration of the research question.
    Database search strategies.
    Critical review of articles.
    Discussion and conclusions.
    Preparation of the report.
  2. WRITING OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
    Construction of scientific articles.
    Writing scientific articles.
    Elaboration of scientific posters.
  3. CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDIES ON QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
    Strategies of qualitative research.
    Strategies of quantitative research.
    Qualitative studies: phenomenological and ethnographic, case study, "Grounded Theory" and the Appreciative Inquiry.
    Data analysis: content analysis.
 
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Albarello L, Digneffe F, Hiernaux JP, Maroy C, Ruquoy D, Saint-Georges P (2011) Práticas e métodos de investigação em ciências sociais, 3rd ed., Lisboa, Portugal: Gradiva.
  • Bardin L (2009) Análise de conteúdo, Lisboa, Portugal: Ed. 70.
  • Beck C (ed) (2013) Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Recearch, Oxon, Routledge.
  • Burns N & Grove K (2001) The practice of nursing research: Conduct, critique & utilization, 4th ed., Philadelphia, P. A.: W. B. Saunders.
  • Bulman C & Schutz S (2008) Reflective practice in nursing, 3rd ed., Oxford: Blacwell Publishing.
  • Polit D, Beck C, Hungler B (2004). Fundamentos de Pesquisa em Enfermagem. 5th ed. (A. Thorell, Trad.) Porto Alegre: Artmed.
  • Streubert H, Carpenter D (2002). Investigação Qualitativa em Enfermagem. Loures: Lusociência..