Health Science Colleges Research

Recent Masters in Nursing Graduate, Shahnaaz Mia together with Karien Jooste authored an article   "Self-Leadership of Male Learner Nurses During a Four-Year Program at a College in the Western Cape, South Africa" in the   Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture,  Volume 5, Issue 4. The abstract reads "Self-leadership is an enabling process during which a male student nurse learns to know himself better. This enriched self-awareness enables him to steer his work life. Male learners in the nursing profession could face gender-based challenges during their training that requires self-leadership. The study described the best experiences of self-leadership by male learner nurses during their four-year training programme at a nursing college in the Western Cape Province. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and contextual design, incorporating the philosophy of the Appreciative Inquiry paradigm, was used. Purposive sampling was applied and 12 i...

View the following DVDs at the library Steps in Planning and Conducting a Research Study This DVD  explores the steps for planning and carrying out a research study. It explains how to choose a topic; establish a hypothesis; select dependent and independent variables; choose a research design; select participants; and collect data, analyze results, and share the findings of the study. Qualitative Research: Methods in the Social Sciences This DVD examines the types of questions addressed through qualitative research, considers problems of research validity, examines qualitative textual analysis, and looks at the primary methods of qualitative research. Research Ethics This DVD explores ethical issues in reporting and conducting research and teaches how to avoid breaches in research ethics.