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Seeing the forest for the trees: a qualitative synthesis project.
Full Abstract
Although qualitative studies are increasing in the discipline of nursing, their clinical application and knowledge development will be impeded unless the rich understandings revealed in these individual studies can be synthesized. Meta-synthesis is an invaluable method for accumulating knowledge from individual qualitative studies. This article describes a project focusing on qualitative synthesis that the author required her nursing students in a graduate-level research course to complete. In addition, qualitative meta-synthesis is defined, and its benefits are discussed. Then, Noblit and Hare's approach for synthesizing qualitative studies is described. The remainder of the article is devoted to explaining the actual course project and students' evaluation of the project. The benefits of having graduate students conduct a meta-synthesis are many, and as one student shared, "It was a wonderful, very interesting, and challenging way to teach us."
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Author information
Author/s: Beck, Cheryl Tatano (CT);
Affiliation: University of Connecticut, School of Nursing, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2026, USA. cheryl.beck(-atsign-)uconn.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of nursing education (J Nurs Educ), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jul; vol 42 (issue 7) : pp 318-23
Dates: Created 2003/07/22; Completed 2003/08/20; Revised 2007/11/15;
PMID: 12873062, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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