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Employment and future goals

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Part 1: Introduce yourself to your classmates with your name, location, current employment, and future goals.

Part 2: As you have learned in this lesson, it is not unusual for researchers to naturally adopt a methodology (quantitative or qualitative) that is consistent with their own worldview. Explain your worldview when it comes to research.

Please include the name of the person or question to which you are replying in the subject line. For example, “Tom’s response to Susan’s comment.”

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Family Dynamics and The Chapters of My Life

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NOTICE***(Due Sunday by midnight at the end of week 3)

This month you are to write a 1200 word research paper on concepts covered in this class and how you see them related to your own family life.
This paper is worth 20% of your grade. As you read the text and do research throughout the class make notes of family systems concepts that you see illustrated in your own family life.You may use some of the concepts in bold print in the Weekly Summaries.
You will identify each concept and tell how it applies to your own family system.

Please use the APA format and cite at least four (4) sources. I have guidelines on using the APA format and citing sources posted in Student Resources for you.
Please submit your research paper into THE Dropbox called “Family Dynamics Paper.” Follow the directions below for a step-by-step process.

Assignment Requirements (Use as a checklist):

Identify six or eight marriage and family concepts and explain how they apply to your own family system over the years

Use a 10 or 12 pt Arial or Times New Roman Font
Double-space paper
Minimum of 1200 words. No more than 2,000 words
Minimum of four (4) cited sources
Use APA format and parenthetical citations right after cited material (See below)

Make sure your name is on your paper
Paper should contain an introduction, a body, and a conclusion

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Qualitative and Quantitative Research Design

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You will critically appraise a research design

Content Requirements:

You will select one research report with a qualitative design and one with quantitative design and answer the following questions regarding the following categories:

Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative Research
Briefly, describe the characteristics of qualitative research and identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a qualitative research approach.

Compare and contrast three different qualitative research methodologies.
Briefly, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research evidence for informing nursing practice.

Communicate how this research design used in research.

The study, sampling, data collection, analysis, rigor, findings and limitations
Identify the purpose of the study.
Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.

Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.
Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.

Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.
Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.
Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.
Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing.

Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research – Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references):
Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach
Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
Communicate how this research design used in research.

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Experience with locating and reading weekly research articles

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Describe your experience with locating and reading weekly research articles. Share an example of an article that has been useful and applicable to your practice. Share an example of an article (or information) that was not helpful. Provide rationale.

Submission Instructions:

Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

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Final research proposal

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Assignment Content

Throughout this course, you will be working towards formulating a final research proposal due in Week 8. This proposal will guide you through the process of conducting responsible research, even though you will not be conducting the study you describe in your proposal in real life. You will complete different steps in the research proposal process each week and will be expected to implement the feedback provided by your instructor in your final proposal. Here are the steps (course assignments) leading up to your final proposal:

Wk 4 Research Plan

Wk 5 Research Proposal Part 1 – Introduction to Research Study

Wk 6 Research Proposal Part 2 – Methods of Research Study

Wk 7 Research Proposal Q&A: Results and Discussion Sections

Wk 8 Research Proposal Part 3 – Discussion and Revisions of Research Study

Read the Research Proposal Guide for details about these assignments. This week you are working on the research plan..

Develop a plan for the research you will do to complete your proposal by Week 8.

Locate and read 5 scholarly peer-reviewed articles on your topic.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word research plan in which you:

Define the research topic that you plan to use.

Summarize your plan for the following:

Study design (i.e., experimental, correlational)

Variables of interest

Hypothesis

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Research methodology and conceptual frameworks.

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For this assignment, you will select an appropriate appraisal tool (cohort studies, case control studies, systematic reviews, qualitative studies, et cetera) to analyze three published journal articles related to the topic of hypertension in the African American population. This assignment will help you to develop critical and analytical skills by methodically appraising the merits of published research. A sound appraisal will gather the most reliable information concerning a health problem, relevant research methodology, and conceptual frameworks.

In addition, you will write a brief summary on how you will use the information from these appraised journal articles in your proposed intervention study and determine how the interpretation of the research results described in the articles are affected by information bias, selection bias, and confounding.

Instructions
Analyze three published journal articles related to the topic you selected for the assignment in Unit 3.
Write a brief summary of how you will use the information from these appraised journal articles in your proposed intervention study and how the interpretation of the research results described in the articles are affected by information bias, selection bias, and confounding.