Learning objectives
The course aims to enable students to acquire a repertoire of
knowledge, skills and capacity for critical reflection regarding use
of research, given its relevance to the profession
nursing and midwifery. Students will have to demonstrate that they have
understood and assimilated the research process in all its phases
compose, highlighting the differences inherent in the different typologies of
Education. They will have to know how to read and critically analyze the results
of research, national and international, drawing on the sources of
best available evidence of efficacy. They will be built with the students i
fundamental steps of the research process, with a particular degree of
in-depth analysis for the first two phases.
Students will be able to specifically outline a possible area
problem, formulate the research question correctly,
identify and formulate the research hypothesis and select the design
relevant research.
The aim is to ensure that students acquire the main tools for
preparation of a qualitative-quantitative research project, applicable to
specific areas of nursing and midwifery expertise.
Prerequisites
Not essential.
Course unit content
Meaning and phases of the nursing and midwifery Search: wording of the
question (problem) for research and definition of the purpose - Research
design, qualitative and quantitative tools of hypothesis testing - Methods
of sampling and data collection. Basic research and applied research in
health care settings - experimental studies, observational studies -
Identification of relevant variables to the research problem - Formulation
of the hypothesis of research-Critical reading of a scientific article -
Ethical issues related to research in health care.
Full programme
At the end of the course the student will be able to argue consciously the
following contents:
- Definition of Search - The importance of research in nursing and
midwifery - The scientific method (systematic, objectivity) - inductive and
deductive reasoning - Theories, concepts, elements to be considered in
the criticism of the theories and conceptual models - EBM, EBN, EBHC:
the best evidence base for clinical practice and the management of
issues related to the organizational aspects of the nursing and midwifery professions, the training focused on developing strategies EBN - The
pyramid of evidence - Types of studies and their characteristics:
experimental, quasi-experimental, observational (descriptive and
analytical) - Basic and applied research - The phases of the research
process - Classification of research based on time - Approaches to
research: scanning and searching - Correct formulation of the research
question: backgroud, foreground , method PICO - The review of the
literature: aims, primary sources, secondary sources - Guidelines for the
critique of a research report - Classification of variables: definition and
different types depending on the type of study and the research question
- causal relationships between the variables - Formulation of the
hypothesis of research and its verifiability - Selection of research design
(quantitative and qualitative), the purpose of design - Materials and
Methods - Tools for Checking dell'ipostesi Research - Principles of
measurement - Reliability - Validity (internal, external) - Selection of the
sample: the universe, the unit of analysis, methods for probabilistic and
non-probabilistic sampling - The questionnaire: fundamental concepts for
the construction and administration of the questionnaire - Development
of a research project; fundamental areas of the Protocol of a study. -
Ethical considerations related to research.
It should be noted that, as a compendium of theoretical concepts, the
focus will be constantly orients nanny to the presentation of examples
and case studies drawn from everyday contexts of care.
Bibliography
-D.F.Polit - C.T. Beck, Fondamenti di ricerca Ricerca infermieristica, Cc Graw - Hill Education, 2018, edizione italiana a cura di Alvisa Palese.
- James A. Fain, La ricerca infermieristica – leggerla, comprenderla e
applicarla, Milano, McGraw-Hill Companies, srl Publishing Group Italia,
2004, trad. it. di: Reading, Understanding, and Applying Research. A test
and Workbook, 2nd edition
- Kenneth D. Bailey, Metodi della ricerca sociale, Bologna, ed. Il Mulino,
1985, trad. it. di Methods of Social Research, New York, The Free Press,
1982. Edizione italiana a cura di Maurizio Rossi.
- Geri Lo Biondo – Wood, Judith Haber, Metodologia della ricerca
infermieristica, Milano, McGraw-Hill Companies, srl Publishing Group
Italia, edizione italiana a cura di Julita Sansoni, 3nd edition.
- Monographs
- Lesson slides
Teaching methods
Lectures and interactive with the use of audiovisual aids, classroom
discussion with students, group and individual processing. The course will be held through lectures to Students either in the classroom (“in presenza”) or in synchronous-streaming (“in telepresenza”) on the Teams platform. Therefore, the opportunity of Student/Teacher interaction will be preserved both face to face and remotely, by the simultaneous use of the Teams platform.
Lectures will be supported by slide presentations, which will be available to students on the Elly platform (https://elly.medicina.unipr.it).
Supporting material will be available on the specific, student-reserved platform (Elly) and will include slide presentations, audio-video aids or video-recording of the lectures.
Assessment methods and criteria
The learning and the degree of preparation is checked by oral test will
ensure that the knowledge gained by the students also through in-depth
study of the following material:
1) Text: D.F.Polit - C.T. Beck, Fondamenti di ricerca Ricerca infermieristica, Cc Graw - Hill Education, 2014, edizione italiana a cura di Alvisa Palese.
2) Slides posted on the site is the University. Oral examination.
Students with SLD / BSE must first contact Le Eli-che: support for students with disabilities, D.S.A., B.E.S. (https://sea.unipr.it/it/servizi/le-eli-che-supporto-studenti-con-disabilita-dsa-bes)
Other information
The learning and the degree of preparation is checked by oral test will
ensure that the knowledge gained by the students also through in-depth
study of the following material:
1) Text: D.F.Polit - C.T. Beck, Fondamenti di ricerca Ricerca infermieristica, Cc Graw - Hill Education, 2018, edizione italiana a cura di Alvisa Palese.
2) Slides posted on the site is the University.
2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
Among the objectives indicated in Agenda 2030, the course gives priority to the following:
- health and wellness
- quality education
- decent work and economic growth.
