Courses Handbook 2010

300720 (v.4) Research Foundations in Nursing and Midwifery 213


Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 300716 (v.2) Foundations of Health Care 112 or any previous version
OR
310962 (v.1) Midwifery Studies 112 or any previous version
OR
301591 (v.3) Bachelor of Science (Nursing) Conversion Program for Registered Nurses or any previous version
OR
310824 (v.1) Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to quantitative and qualitative approaches to nursing and midwifery research. Research process: research problems/hypotheses; literature review; theoretical frameworks; sampling; data collection; data analysis; descriptive and inferential statistics; reliability and validity; trustworthiness. Research ethics. Analysis of research reports as a consumer of research. Current issues and trends in nursing and midwifery research. Application of research to nursing and midwifery practice.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 060399 Nursing not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2010 Geraldton University Centre Semester 2 Y        
2010 Great Southern TAFE Albany Semester 2 Y        
2010 CSM Academy Singapore Semester 1 Y        
2010 CSM Academy Singapore Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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