Laura Lewis, PhD, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing Laura.Lewis@med.uvm.edu

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  1. Hi, everyone.
  2. My name is Laura Lewis.
  3. I'm an assistant professor in the nursing department and see
  4. NHS. And I'm very excited to be joining you as
  5. a guest lecturer today.
  6. I've had the privilege of being part of the course
  7. faculty for this course in the past, so I'm very
  8. happy to be to be back as a guest lecturer.
  9. Um, I just wanted to give a brief background about
  10. myself, My clinical experiences in oncology nursing, Um, and I'm
  11. a qualitative researchers.
  12. So I work mostly with adults on the autism spectrum
  13. in my research that I've also applied qualitative methodology to
  14. a lot of different content areas outside of that specialty
  15. as well.
  16. So this week, I've put together a few screen casts
  17. and activity to hopefully provide you with some background about
  18. the ways that we appraise and use qualitative literature, especially
  19. in the clinical setting.
  20. So I'll give you just an overview of some qualitative
  21. methodology in general to give you some background to work
  22. with, um and then look a little bit closer at
  23. how we use those rapid critical appraisal tools when we're
  24. looking at qualitative evidence.
  25. Um, most likely for this course and for your clinical
  26. practice. A lot of the PICO questions that you have
  27. will be better answered through those higher levels of evidence.
  28. Um, that are usually quantitative.
  29. But there are some PICO questions that are better answered
  30. with qualitative methodology.
  31. And it's a great way to inform your practice in
  32. other ways that we'll get into in some of the
  33. screen casts.
  34. Um, and basically, it's just really important that you're able
  35. to tell just the same as with quantitative literature, what
  36. makes it good?
  37. What makes it bad so that you have a handle
  38. on whether a study is rigorous and trustworthy.
  39. Um, when you're wondering if you should use the data,
  40. um, so please feel free to reach out to me.
  41. I've included my email address below and on blackboard as
  42. well. If you have any questions about the content, obviously
  43. your course instructors are available, but I'm also happy to
  44. answer any questions about qualitative methodology specifically so I hope
  45. you enjoy and wishing you a great semester