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NUR 378 Final Exam 2025: Pharmacology Actual
Questions & Answers – Concordia University St. Paul
Qualitative Study Characteristics - ANS - Narrative descriptions or
information
- Focuses on human experience
- Asks the questions
- More global than hard data presented in a quantitative study
- Study comes full circle
- Continual examination and interpretation of data
- Decisions about how to proceed are based on what has been discovered.
- Design is flexible
Qualitative Naturalistic Paradigm - ANS - Reality is not fixed.
- Reality cannot be known...it is constructed by each individual.
- No comparison group
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- Focus is to describe & explain new phenomenon
- Non statistical methods
Descriptive Qualitative Study - ANS - preliminary study to establish basic
knowledge regarding responses to health or illness
- many studies do not claim any specific type of approach or disciplinary
tradition
- seek to holistically describe phenomena as they are perceived by the people
who experience them.
- researchers may say that they did a content analysis of the narrative data
with the intent of understanding important themes and patterns
Interpretive Qualitative Study - ANS more complex analysis of data that
interprets the meaning of information in categories or themes
The Qualitative Researcher - ANS becomes intimate with subjects, may
remain in field for long periods of time, and is the research instrument
Qualitative Data Analysis - ANS is ongoing, may lead to changes in data
collection, and strives for an understanding of the whole
NUR 378
NUR 378
NUR 378 Final Exam 2025: Pharmacology Actual
Questions & Answers – Concordia University St. Paul
Qualitative Study Characteristics - ANS - Narrative descriptions or
information
- Focuses on human experience
- Asks the questions
- More global than hard data presented in a quantitative study
- Study comes full circle
- Continual examination and interpretation of data
- Decisions about how to proceed are based on what has been discovered.
- Design is flexible
Qualitative Naturalistic Paradigm - ANS - Reality is not fixed.
- Reality cannot be known...it is constructed by each individual.
- No comparison group
NUR 378
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NUR 378
- Focus is to describe & explain new phenomenon
- Non statistical methods
Descriptive Qualitative Study - ANS - preliminary study to establish basic
knowledge regarding responses to health or illness
- many studies do not claim any specific type of approach or disciplinary
tradition
- seek to holistically describe phenomena as they are perceived by the people
who experience them.
- researchers may say that they did a content analysis of the narrative data
with the intent of understanding important themes and patterns
Interpretive Qualitative Study - ANS more complex analysis of data that
interprets the meaning of information in categories or themes
The Qualitative Researcher - ANS becomes intimate with subjects, may
remain in field for long periods of time, and is the research instrument
Qualitative Data Analysis - ANS is ongoing, may lead to changes in data
collection, and strives for an understanding of the whole
NUR 378
