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Table of Contents

Question - 14

Introduction4

Discussion5

Case Study5

Grounded Theory5

Characteristics and the Effectiveness of Qualitative Research in the Health Care System6

Theoretical Foundations8

Phenomenological Research Perspective9

Phenomenological Data-Gathering Method9

Symbolic Interaction13

Culture13

Ethnomethodology14

Methods of Qualitative Research14

Observation14

Participant Observation15

Ethnomethodology15

Document Study16

Techniques of Collecting Qualitative Data16

Field Notes17

Personal Documents17

Photography18

Official Statistics18

Analyzing Qualitative Data19

Conclusion20

Question - 221

Introduction21

Discussion21

The Impact of Mentoring On the Mentor, Protégé, Healthcare Organization and Industry Leadership22

The Negative And Positive Implications Of Mentoring26

Conclusion30

References32

Appendix36

Question - 1

The Effectiveness of Qualitative Research in the Health Care System

Introduction

Human beings possess the ability to think rationally and logically, which in turn leads to curiosity. You may have heard of the Philosophy 101 final examination that contained just one question: “Why?” Students wrote up to 20 pages, quoting philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Buber, but the correct answer was “Because.”Research or the process thereof, answers the question Why? There are multiple reasons for a myriad of questions, but how can we know what the best answer is? Research and the application of the scientific method will enable us to answer such questions.

The health science profession had its beginnings at the start of the nineteenth century, when improvement of the health of school-age children provided impetus for the new discipline. In addition, we health science professionals have strived to provide information to those populations of high risk. These have been our primary goals, and we have attempted to use research and evaluation to improve our ability to meet these objectives. However, criticism about the research conducted can be found in the health science literature. With these criticisms in mind, you might be asking: Why study health science research? What can it do? What can we expect? All professionals, including community and school health educators, nurses, physicians, and other health care providers, are involved in the research process. There are some interpretively based approaches to data gathering in Health Care researches. These approaches include phenomenology, hermeneutics, gender-based approaches (including feminism and queer theory), and semiotics.

Discussion

Research in the health sciences is still in its early years, because the profession is relatively young. Even though they have their critics, and most of them are on target, health scientists have dramatically advanced in the field's research and evaluation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s. Using science in the quest for knowledge, health scientists have become imaginative, rigorous, and conscientious in their approach to research. (See Appendix Table-A1)

Case Study

Health Data Analysts, a research consortium, has been awarded a contract to examine the efficacy of a hospital's Wellness Center. Steven has been named the project director of this study, and he will head a team comprised of several staff people who are all trained and educated to gather and interpret data for the layperson. The consortium devised a methodology to use qualitative research in order to best reach the goals and objectives of the project.

Some of the previous chapters of this textbook have dealt with collecting and reporting data in a quantifiable manner. This paper discusses another method of gathering data that is different from experimental and survey research in that it is ...