Fundamentals of Nursing Research

Code: ENF14443L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This UC contributes, through its programmatic contents, to the knowledge construction and translation process and the main research paradigms.

Sustainable Development Goals

1. Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Goals:
- Understand the knowledge construction and translation process;
- To know the main research paradigms;
- Develop basic consumer research skills:
- Criteria for analysis of research articles
- Integrative and systematic review
- Rules for the use of information sources
- Develop basic research skills
- Knowing structuring elements and the different phases of the research process
- Develop a pre-project research
- Ethics in research

Competences:
Theoretical knowledge
- Demonstrates to know:
- the process of knowledge construction and translation
- the structuring elements and the different stages of the research process
- the ethical principles underlying research
- criteria for the analysis of research articles
- the process of integrative and systematic review
Theoretical and practical knowledge
-Builds a pre-research project
-Properly uses electronic and physical sources

1. The the knowledge construction and translation process;
2. Ethical principles in research
3. Research paradigms
4. Fundamentals of Nursing Research
5. Use of the produced research - basic consumer research skills:
a. Criteria for analyzing research articles
b. Integrative review and systematic review
c. Rules for using fonts
6. Research production - The research process
a. Framing and formulating research problems
b. Population and Sample Definition
c. Data collection techniques and instruments; interviews and questionnaires
d. Treatment and data analysis
i. Statistical analysis
ii. Qualitative analysis of data
e. Interpretation and analysis of research produced
7. Outline of a pre-project research

Teaching Methods

Student has a co-responsibility role for their own learning, and are expected to actively participate in class.
Expositive classes are planned, in order to explain the more abstract content, and theoretical and practical lessons for learning, training and examples for the application of the materials. For practice classes, the group will be divided in small groups. This is required for a better interaction between professor-student, for example in the research database, references management exercises, research plans. The OT is used for individual tutoring or in small groups as situation.

Assessment

The assessment of the Curricular Unit is continuous and follows the weighting criteria: a draft of a research pre-project (group work), accounting for 40% of the final grade, and responses to questions carried out on Moodle during the Theoretical-Practical classes (individual assessment), accounting for 60%. Questions will be administered in four TP sessions (each assessment moment will represent 25% of the final theoretical grade), and will refer to the content covered in the previous theoretical classes. To achieve a positive evaluation in the Curricular Unit, students must obtain a grade higher than 9.5 (out of 20) in each component (group work and individual assessment).
The final assessment: a written exam lasting 90 minutes, according to the school calendar for the different evaluation periods.