Continuing Education

The focus of this institute is on the general principles of and generic techniques for qualitative analysis, with an emphasis on empirical/analytical or naturalist methods. Participants will practice techniques associated with these methods with a data set provided for them.

This institute is designed to assist health professions faculty and clinicians to write a publishable manuscript. Each participant who comes with an idea for a manuscript will have the opportunity to write that manuscript and have the writing critiqued and edited.

This institute will address the knowledge and skills administrators and researchers need to create or select outcomes that document effectiveness of care using patient outcomes for accreditation, quality improvement purposes, or developing research programs.

This institute will focus on teaching a process developed by the instructors for identifying a theory of the problem and moving from that step to a theory of the intervention and the relationship between these theories. The institute will be of benefit to doctorally prepared nurses who have a background in studying a specific topic. Two days will focus on a theory of the problem with three days focused on the intervention. We will address the connection between these theories and also include how to identify mediators and moderators for the intervention.

This institute will cover aspects of longitudinal study design and provide an introduction to analysis of data from longitudinal studies. Aspects of design will touch upon appropriate choice of design for the research question, power, randomization, missing data, and data management. Analysis methods to be covered include linear mixed models, generalized estimating equations, and a very brief introduction to survival analysis. The format for this institute will be lectures. Since the goal of the institute will be to provide general guidance for the analysis methods not specific to any particular software, there will be no hands-on (i.e., computer lab) component.

This course is now FULL. Please consider registering for either Qualitative Analysis I: Empirical/Analytical Methods, offered June 2-5 or Qualitative Analysis II: Phenomenological and Narrative/Discourse Methods, offered July 28-31. Both of these are Summer Research Institutes on similar topics. For more information or to register, please call the CE office at 919-966-3638 or email nursing_ce@unc.edu.

This institute is designed to assist health professions faculty and clinicians whose native language is Asian to write a publishable manuscript for English journals. Each participant who comes with an ideas for a manuscript will have the opportunity to write that manuscript and have the writing critiqued and edited.

This institute is designed to assist doctorally-prepared researchers or educators, post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students to understand the steps in instrument development and testing, the concepts of reliability and validity, and to be able to contrast instrument development from qualitative data and traditional approaches. There will also be discussions on exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, differentiation of various scaling methods, and a critique of existing instruments.

Focus is on phenomenological/hermeneutic and narrative discourse methods of analysis. Participants will practice techniques associated with these methods with a data set provided to them.

This intensive course focuses on legal research methods used to analyze primary and secondary legal authority affecting the provision of health and nursing care, the health care professions and organizations, communities within which care is provided, and the populations they serve. The purpose of the Institute is to analyze the qualitative aspects of legal research and examine legal research methods that address the intersection of nursing phenomena and the law. The course provides the opportunity for participants to synthesize legal and nursing phenomena and apply legal research methods to work on their dissertation or other research topics. The course features presentations by faculty and hands-on experience with legal research in consultation with Law librarians and Health Sciences librarians.