Qualitative Research Methods

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This course is geared towards the study of qualitative methodology with an inductive focus used to generate knowledge from human experience in different health and illness situations, as well as from nursing practice and models. Philosophical and psychological underpinnings of qualitative research paradigm which underlie ethnographic, phenomenological, case study, historiography and emerging or grounded theory design will be analyzed. Also, the student must apply the bioethical principles that guide the trustworthiness of qualitative research to protect the human rights of participants. The course will be taught using hybrid modality.