Course syllabus for Degree Project for Master's Degree (60 credits) in Nursing

Examensarbete för magisterexamen i omvårdnad

Essential data

Course code: 2QA179
Course name: Degree Project for Master's Degree (60 credits) in Nursing
Credits: 15
Form of Education: Higher education, study regulation of 2007
Main field of study: Nursing
Level: Second cycle, contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
Grading scale: Fail (U) or pass (G)
Department: Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
Decision date: 2011-01-25
Revised by: Board of Higher Education
Last revised: 2016-02-04
Course syllabus valid from: Autumn semester 2016

Literature and other teaching aids

  • Skrivregler för svenska och engelska från TNC, Solna : Terminologicentrum (TNC), 2001 - 236 s. ISBN: 91-7196-100-3, LIBRIS-ID: 8372003,
  • Day, Robert A.; Gastel, Barbara, How to write and publish a scientific paper, 6., [updated and enlarged] ed. : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 - xv, 302 s. ISBN: 0-521-67167-1 (hft.), LIBRIS-ID: 10148844,
  • Ethics in qualitative research, Mauthner, Melanie, London ; a Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications Ltd, 2002 - x, 172 s. ISBN: 0-7619-7309-5 (hft.), LIBRIS-ID: 8954442,
  • Gustafsson, Bengt; Hermerén, Göran; Petersson, Bo, Good research practice - what is it?: views, guidelines and examples, Stockholm : Vetenskapsrådet, 2006 - 89 s. ISBN: 91-7307-086-6, LIBRIS-ID: 10161165, http://www.cm.se/webbshop_vr/pdfer/Rapport%201.2006.pdf,
  • Creswell, John W.; Plano Clark, Vicki L, Designing and conducting mixed methods research, Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; a London : SAGE, cop. 2007 - xviii, 275 p. ISBN: 9781412927918 (hbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 10467450, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008436.html,
  • Hulley, Stephen B., Designing clinical research, 3. ed. : Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, cop. 2007 - xv, 367 p. ISBN: 9780781782104, LIBRIS-ID: 10535344,
  • Polit, Denise F.; Beck, Cheryl Tatano, Nursing research: generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice, 9.ed. : Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, cop. 2012 [dvs 2011] - xiv, 802 s. ISBN: 978-1-60547-708-4 (hardback), LIBRIS-ID: 12094617,
  • Altman, Douglas G.; Gardner, M. J. q (Martin John), Statistics with confidence [Elektronisk resurs] b confidence intervals and statistical guidelines., 2nd ed. / b edited by Douglas G. Altman .. [et al.]. : [Great Britain] : BMJ Books, 2000. - xii, 240 p. LIBRIS-ID: 9773694, http://ezproxy.its.uu.se/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uppsala/Doc?id=10033071 z Tillgänglig för användare inom Uppsala universitet,
  • Handbook of health research methods: investigation, measurement and analysis, Bowling, Ann; Ebrahim, Shah, Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005 - x, 625 s. ISBN: 978-0-335-21461-7 (hbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 9951075,
  • Howell, David C., Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences, 6. ed. : Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, cop. 2008 - xiv, 594 p. ISBN: 0495099007 (hbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 10469533,
  • Pett, Marjorie A., Nonparametric statistics for health care research: statistics for small samples and unusual distributions, Thousand Oaks : Sage, cop. 1997 - 307 s. ISBN: 0-8039-7038-2, LIBRIS-ID: 5691752,
  • Streiner, David L.; Norman, Geoffrey R., Health measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use, 3. ed. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, cop. 2003 - xii, 283 s. ISBN: 0-19-852847-7, LIBRIS-ID: 9079866,
  • Vittinghoff, Eric, Regression methods in biostatistics: linear, logistic, survival, and repeated measures models, New York : Springer, cop. 2005 - xv, 340 p. ISBN: 0-387-20275-7 (acid-free paper), LIBRIS-ID: 9962279,
  • Dahlberg, Karin, Reflective Lifeworld Research, 2. uppl. : Studentlitteratur AB, 2008 ISBN: 91-44-04925-0, LIBRIS-ID: 10616729,
  • Krippendorff, Klaus., Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology, 3rd ed. : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012. - 1 v. ISBN: 1-4129-8315-0 ¹44.99, LIBRIS-ID: 12766953,
  • Kvale, Steinar; Brinkmann, Svend, Den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun, 2:a : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2009 LIBRIS-ID: 9607320,
  • Morse, Janice M; Field, Peggy-Anne; Field, Peggy-Anne. t Nursing research, Qualitative research methods for health professionals, 2nd ed : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995. - 254 s. ISBN: 0-8039-7326-8, LIBRIS-ID: 5691888,
  • Strauss, Anselm L.; Corbin, Juliet M., Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory, 2. ed. : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, cop. 1998 - xiii, 312 s. ISBN: 0-8039-5939-7 (inb.), LIBRIS-ID: 5691227,
  • Writing in the dark: phenomenological studies in interpretive inquiry, Van Manen, Max., London, Ont. : Althouse, 2002 - 252 p. ISBN: 0-920354-49-1 (pbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 8424780,
  • Day, Robert A.; Gastel, Barbara, How to write and publish a scientific paper, 7. ed. : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2011 - xxi, 300 s. ISBN: 9780313391972 (pbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 12238385,
  • Cooper, Harris M, Synthesizing research: a guide for literature reviews, 3. ed. : Thousand Oaks : SAGE, cop. 1998 - 201 s. ISBN: 0-7619-1347-5, LIBRIS-ID: 5601608,
  • Cooper, Harris M.; Cooper, Harris M., Research synthesis and meta-analysis: a step-by-step approach, 4th ed. : Los Angeles, [Calif.] : SAGE, c2010. - ix, 269 p. ISBN: 1-4129-3705-1 (pbk.) : ¹29.00, LIBRIS-ID: 11732925,
  • Higgins, JPT; Green, S editors, Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 4.2.6: [updated September 2006]. In: The Cochrane Library, 4 : Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006
  • Users' guides to the medical literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice, Guyatt, Gordon; Rennie, Drummond, Chicago b American Medical Association, c cop. 2002 : American Medical Association, cop. 2002 - 706 s. ISBN: 1-57947-174-9, LIBRIS-ID: 8842951,
  • Complex interventions in health: an overview of research methods, Richards, David A.; Rahm Hallberg, Ingalill, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015 - xxv, 381 p. ISBN: 9780415703147, LIBRIS-ID: 17901560,
  • Riessman, Catherine Kohler, Narrative methods for the human sciences, London : SAGE, 2008 - x, 251 s. ISBN: 0761929983, LIBRIS-ID: 10542799,
  • Bogdan, Robert; Biklen, Sari Knopp, Qualitative research for education: an introduction to theory and methods, 5. ed. : Boston, Mass. : Pearson A & B, cop. 2007 [dvs 2006] - 304 p. ISBN: 0-205-48293-7, LIBRIS-ID: 10256268,
  • Alligood, Martha Raile, Nursing theorists and their work, Eighth edition. : cop. 2014 - xvii, 746 pages ISBN: 9780323091947 (pbk. : alk. paper), LIBRIS-ID: 14723902,
  • Willman, Ania; Stoltz, Peter; Bahtsevani, Christel, Evidensbaserad omvårdnad: en bro mellan forskning och klinisk verksamhet, 2., [rev.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2006 - 172 s. ISBN: 91-44-04578-6,
  • Forsberg, Christina; Wengström, Yvonne, Att göra systematiska litteraturstudier : värdering, analys och presentation av omvårdnadsforskning, 3. uppl. : Stockholm : Natur & Kultur, 2013 - 219 s. ISBN: 9789127134157, LIBRIS-ID: 13560592,
  • Walker, Lorraine Olszewski; Avant, Kay Coalson, Strategies for theory construction in nursing, 5. ed. : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, cop. 2011 - xi, 243 s. ISBN: 978-0-13-215688-2 (alk. paper), LIBRIS-ID: 11959692,