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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"substantive theory"”.
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Managing Patient Care: A Substantive Theory of Clinical Decision Making in Home Health Care Nursing
… of clinical decision making, deriving a grounded substantive theory to explain how home health care nurses make patient care decisions. Despite the continuing shift of health care from acute care settings to the patient's home, little is known about home health care nurses' clinical decision …
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Competency maturing: a substantive theory of how senior information systems undergraduates develop their existing competencies and acquire additional competencies within an organic learning environment
… and values. This thesis employs Classic Grounded Theory Methodology (CGTM) with a single case to identify the main concern of senior IS undergraduates during their learning process, and how they resolve the concern. Data were obtained from two diverse groups of senior IS undergraduate classes …
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An Examination and Analysis of Bank Corporate Governance Regulation in The Gambia: A Grounded Theory Approach
… Governance Regulation in The Gambia: A Grounded Theory Approach Abstract The purpose of this research is to carry out an empirical investigation of bank corporate governance regulation in The Gambia. The aim is to determine what contributions, if any, effective governance systems can make to the …
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Being Heard: A Classical Grounded Theory Exploring the Experiences of Bedside Nurses Working in Children's Hospitals with Established Shared Governance Models
This Classical Grounded Theory (CGT) study explored the experiences of bedside nurses working in children’s hospitals where shared governance (SG) has been in place for at least four years. Shared governance is a professional practice model that has been offered as a way to improve nurse …
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Shifting Paradigms: The Development of Nursing Identity in Foreign-Educated Physicians Retrained as Nurses Practicing in the United States
… The purpose of this study was to generate a theory that can explain the development of their nursing identity. Specific aims were to discover barriers that participants perceived as problematic in their transition to nursing and catalysts that influenced how they addressed the central …
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Doing the Right Thing: Relational Ethics in Institutional Caregiving for Veterans
… was conducted in three phases using grounded theory methodology. The research purpose, guided by symbolic interaction theory, was to develop substantive theory in relational ethics. Study analyses used Atlas.ti qualitative software. Main study one, Veteran-Formal Caregiver Relations, focused …
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An Exploration and Analysis of the Evolving Bank Corporate Governance Practices in Egypt: A Grounded Theory Approach
… been ignored by the literature. Through grounded theory methodology, an empirical study of the nature of corporate governance in the EBS is undertaken, it identifies the factors affecting corporate governance in the EBS, the interests corporate governance is serving and as such outline the model …
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Employee Assistance Program and Occupational Health Providers’Perceptions and Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence in the Workplace: A Grounded Theory Study
… partner violence (IPV). This Classical Grounded Theory (CGT) study explored providers’ experiences and perceptions of working with employees in IPV relationships. This study advances the mission of the Southern Nursing Research Society by communicating research findings related to a persistent …
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Transformation of provisional existence of unknown limit: A grounded theory
… The second purpose was to develop a grounded substantive theory that would explain the elements and their relations in the basic social process. The data on which analysis was based included seven formal unstructured interviews, four observations, and interpretation of nine written text of …
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Fitting Things Together: A Grounded Theory Study of Clinical Judgment in Nursing
… reveals the lack of an empirically derived theory of clinical judgment or methods to teach the skill. Progress has been limited because of the difficulties inherent in measuring cognitive work in complex practice environments, as well as the tendency of nursing authors and researchers to …
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The State of Teacher Evaluations in California K-12 Public Schools during COVID-19
… non-experimental case study employed a grounded theory research approach to gain an understanding of teacher evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic. To conduct the study, human resource administrators in public school districts serving K-12 students across all 58 counties in California were …
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Ethical Dimensions of Corporate Governance Practice in Ghana: Building a Theoretical Perspective
… governance systems in Ghana. Using grounded theory methodology, data was collected from 28 semi structured interviews with board of directors and senior officials, and group discussion of 9 participants, mainly directors and officials involved with Ghanaian corporate governance system. The …
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The Recognition of Child Abuse: Expert Providers' Experience
… within all socioeconomic structures. No grounded theory study to date has examined the processes which lead child abuse experts to recognize child abuse. The aim of this qualitative study was to construct a substantive theory, using the Strauss and Corbin grounded theory method, to describe the …
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The delivery of Primary Health Care in remote Australian communities: A Grounded Theory study of the perspective of nurses
… was conducted from a Constructivist Grounded Theory perspective to generate a substantive theory. Data were collected through 23 telephone interviews and an expert reference group. This study adds previously unknown information to the body of work about remote area nursing. The context of …
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The Far Reaching Impact of Transformative Learning: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study
… as an analytic tool employing grounded theory leading to the development of a substantive theory. In-depth, semi-structured interviews and researcher's reflective journal were employed to collect data for this study that critically examined the impact of the transformative process of its …
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Exploring the factors that contribute to high failure rate among final year students in public higher education institutions in the kingdom of eSwatini.
… factors contributing to failure and developing a substantive theory to mitigate failure in final year of study in Eswatini. The study employed qualitative research methodology using Constructivist Ground Theory. It used snowballing and theoretical sampling. The participant were students who failed …
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Interrogating Artist-Teacher Identity Transformation in Adult Community Learning
… to be told. The research developed a constructed substantive theory of artist-teachers in ACL identity transformation using second-generation and constructivist grounded theory approaches. This methodology chronicles how an artist-teacher in ACL comes to be. Additionally, autoethnography is used …
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Maintained weight loss: facilitators and barriers
… The aim of this research was to develop a substantive theory to explain maintained weight loss. The inclusion criteria selected participants who began their intentional weight loss from a B.M.I. of 35 or above, reached their goal weight and maintained this weight loss for at least one year. …
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Promoting normal birthing : aspiring to develop a midwife-led scope of practice
The purpose of this study was to develop a substantive theory of the processes used by midwives in exercising their scope of practice when caring for women and babies during normal birthing. The grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbin (Corbin & Strauss, 2008; Strauss & Corbin, 1998, 1990) …
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Behaving Collaboratively and Getting Along: A Classical Grounded Theory of Certified Nurse Midwives Collaborating With Physicians in U.S. Hospitals
This dissertation is a classical grounded theory study that examines how certified nurse midwives perceive their collaborative role as they work with physicians in U.S. hospitals. The most common reason for hospitalization in the U.S. is birth and care of the newborn (Levit, Wier, Stranges, Ryan, & …
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