75196 - Nursing and Midwifery Research (RN)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student must be able to investigate the nursing and midwifery, organizational and educational processes related to the evolution of population health problems, health and social systems and specific professionalization paths.

Course contents

Prerequisites:

The contents of the modules on OBSTETRICS AND NURSING BASED ON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE and on Medical Statistics applied to health care.

Training Goals

At the end of the module the student has to achieve these goals/target:

knowledge and skills related to the research process and to the main study designs;

tools and methods for choosing and developing the thesis topic and the subsequent elaboration.

The student has to be able to:

Identify possible research problems and hypotheses in the field of nursing and midwifery

Identify and apply research findings

Develop research projects

Program/Course

Introduction

Identify problems from which it is possible to formulate research questions in the field of nursing and midwifery

The importance of research in nursing and midwifery

Aims and areas of nursing and midwifery research

The research process

The quantitative research process and its phases

Hypotheses/research questions (PICOS) and research variables

The rationale of the study and bibliographic research

The main research designs and their characteristics: descriptive, observational and experimental

The research protocol: drafting and design

Data collection and the main data collection tools

Study authorization paths

Guidelines for reporting studies

Organizational research

The research project

Develop a research project

Readings/Bibliography

Gaeta L. (2010) Critical reading of clinical studies, Aras editions, Fano

Polit, DF & Beck, CT(2018) trad it by Palese A. Fundamentals of Nursing Research. 2 Ed. McGraw Hill, Milan

Articles of interest will be indicated by the teacher during the lesson

Teaching methods

lectures, presentation of problems in plenary, individual/pair and group exercises

Assessment methods

The student will have to develop and present their own project complete search of the following documents:

- The complete protocol

- The synopsis

- The data collection tool(s).

- The information sheet for the patient or participants (if appropriate)

- the study consent form

The documents described above must be sent via email 10 days before the exam date.

The evaluation will be carried out taking into account the following aspects:

- originality and completeness of the project;

- clinical-care problem/question;

- hypotheses/questions and variables consistent with the problem;

- background bibliographic research;

- methodology for testing hypotheses/answering questions;

- instruments;

- planned statistical analyses;

- action plans with timing consistent with the conduct of the research.

The final mark is expressed out of 30 points according to the following graduation:

30 cum laude, excellent implementation of the research protocol completes with all the required documentation, respect for delivery times.

24-30, complete implementation of the research protocol, compliance with delivery times.

18-23, sufficient implementation of the research protocol, compliance with delivery times.

< 18 insufficient

The evaluation will be averaged with the evaluations of the other modules making up the Integrated Course

Teaching tools

In classroom: PC and video projector, flipchart,

On Virtuale: slides, articles and documents of interest.

Office hours

See the website of Patrizia Di Giacomo