2024
Fundamentals of Nursing Research
Name: Fundamentals of Nursing Research
Code: ENF14443L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC contributes, through its programmatic contents, to the knowledge construction and translation process and the main research paradigms.
Sustainable Development Goals
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
- 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
Contents
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
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.
Evaluation Regime:
1) Continuous evaluation: A moment of evaluation by individual (60%) and a moment of assessment by group exercise (40%). Students who
do not perform any of these moments opts for the examination regime.
2) Exam: Written test lasting 90 minutes.
Time for exam will respect calendar of the semester.
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.
Evaluation Regime:
1) Continuous evaluation: A moment of evaluation by individual (60%) and a moment of assessment by group exercise (40%). Students who
do not perform any of these moments opts for the examination regime.
2) Exam: Written test lasting 90 minutes.
Time for exam will respect calendar of the semester.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
