Nursing: Innovation and Development

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

All course contents will start with theoretical classes. Theoretical-practical classes will be distributed between the course contents and reserved for the critical analysis of articles, statistical and qualitative data analysis training, using SPSS and NVIVO software, respectively, and the analysis of health R&D projects. Seminar classes will be dedicated to presenting and discussing research problem statements, preferably in the areas in which students plan to conduct their Thesis.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss the major onto-epistemological issues relevant to developing knowledge and innovation in Nursing praxis;

2. Critically analyze the development of Nursing theories and models of reference for practice;

3. Understand the relevance of evidence-based practice;

4. Apply instruments for the reflective analysis of practices;

5. Select research designs suitable for the nature of problems;

6. Carry out multivariate statistical analysis;

7. Carry out qualitative textual data analysis;

8. Carry out critical analysis of primary and secondary research;

9. Identify areas of Nursing innovation & development.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Development of philosophical and theoretical frameworks

The nature of Nursing phenomena and knowledge

The theories and models for practice

Evidence-based health care

The ethics of principles and the ethics of care

2. Advanced Nursing practice

Development of professional practice

Disciplinary identity and interprofessionality

Clinical judgment and human responses

Nursing taxonomies and documentation systems

Care management

3. Research methodologies

Building the object of Nursing research

Science and truth: successive ruptures and breakthroughs; Internal and external validity

The process of knowledge production-synthesis-translation

Types and designs of quantitative research

Qualitative research approaches

Multivariate statistics

Qualitative data analysis (QDA)

Synthesis and implementation of empirical evidence

4. Health care innovation

Global health

Organizational cultures and leadership

Technological applications in care

Health care quality and safety.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ananda Maria Fernandes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Apóstolo, J. (2017).Síntese da evidência no contexto da translação da ciência. Coimbra: ESEnfC

Apóstolo, J. & Gameiro, M. (2005).Referências onto-epistemológicas e metodológicas da investigação em enfermagem: uma análise crítica. Referência, 2(1),29-38

Loureiro, L. & Gameiro, M. (2011). Interpretação crítica dos resultados estatísticos: para lá da significância estatística.

Referência, 3(3),151-162

Oliveira, A. et al. (2019).Nursing practices in peripheral venous catheter: Phlebitis and patient safety. Texto & Contexto Enfermagem, (28),e20180109

Polit, D. & Beck, C. (2021) Essentials of nursing research: Appraising evidence for nursing practice (10ª ed). Philadelphia: W.K. & W.

Queirós, P. (2015). Cuidar:da condição de existência humana ao cuidar integral profissionalizado. Referência, 5(4),139-146.