Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive 

About: Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Nurse education & Health care. It has an ISSN identifier of 0844-5621. Over the lifetime, 640 publications have been published receiving 6308 citations.

The freedom to learn.

Abstract: I believe that: _I cannot teach another person directly, I can only facilitate his/ her learning. _A person learns most readily if he/she is interested in that which he/she is trying to learn. _People differ in their ability to learn through any given teaching method. _A person is capable of knowing best how he/she learns. _A person is capable of carrying the responsibility of seeking out learning situations best suited to his/her needs. _A person's evaluation of his/her own performance has a greater impact on his/her future behavior than the instructor's evaluation of that person's performance. On this basis I planned and conducted a program in psychiatric nursing in which I attempted to allow the students as much freedom as possible to meet their own learning needs.

Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research

Abstract: This handbook presents guidelines for synthesizing findings of qualitative research.After discussing the importance of such synthesis for building knowledge, in the second chapter the authors introduce definitions of and types of qualitative research synthesis.They view the synthesis as a study comprising a series of steps, starting with the formulation of a problem and a statement of purpose. In chapter 3 the authors focus on the steps of retrieving all research reports and determining their relevance to the study domain. In chapter 4 they describe strategies for appraising individual study reports and for conducting a comparative appraisal. Comparative appraisal consists of displaying key elements of the studies included in the synthesis and comparing them in order to determine whether they confirm, extend, refute, or complement each other. In chapter 5 Sandelowski and Barroso discuss issues encountered in appraising the quality of qualitative studies and present a typology of findings that can be used to classify results. In chapters 6 and 7 they describe the process of implementing the two types of qualitative research synthesis, metasummary and metasynthesis. In chapter 8 the authors review strategies for maintaining validity of qualitative research synthesis and in chapter 9 they review content and format for presenting the results of the synthesis. Sandelowski and Barroso are to be commended for addressing a controversial topic, and for refining the types of qualitative research findings and procedures for conducting a synthesis of these findings.They clarify the arguments advanced by proponents and opponents of the qualitative research synthesis, thereby facilitating our understanding of the rationale underlying the two types of synthesis. Conceiving the synthesis as a study that is conducted in steps, similar to those entailed in a metaanalysis, helps us to view the process as a systematic one with a welldefined sequence of steps.The book is structured accordingly, starting with the formulation of a researchable problem, moving on to the conduct of an extensive search of the relevant literature, then to an appraisal and synthesis of findings across studies, and ending with CJNR 2008,Vol. 40 No 3, 179 –180

Two-eyed seeing: a framework for understanding indigenous and non-indigenous approaches to indigenous health research.

Abstract: This article presents two-eyed seeing as a theoretical framework that embraces the contributions of both Indigenous and Western "ways of knowing" (worldviews). It presents key characteristics and principles of these different perspectives and suggests ways in which they might be used together to answer our most pressing questions about the health of Indigenous people and communities. Presenting a critique of positivism, which has historically undermined and/or dismissed Indigenous ways of knowing as "unscientific," it discusses the origins of both Western and Indigenous approaches to understanding health; the importance of giving equal consideration to diverse Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews such that one worldview does not dominate or undermine the contributions of others; and how balanced consideration of contributions from diverse worldviews, embraced within a two-eyed seeing framework, can reshape the nature of the questions we ask in the realm of Indigenous health research.