Perspectives on Conducting Research in Indian Country
| Autor: | Margaret P Moss, Emily J. Jones, Emily A. Haozous, Laura S Larsson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Novice nurse
media_common.quotation_subject Practicum Article Indigenous 03 medical and health sciences Indian country 0302 clinical medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology General Nursing media_common 030504 nursing business.industry Timeline Public relations Alaskan Natives Trial and error Intercultural communication Nursing Research Negotiation Indians North American Health Services Research 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Nurs Res |
| ISSN: | 1538-9847 0029-6562 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/nnr.0000000000000379 |
| Popis: | Background Certain research principles, framed within an indigenous context, are helpful guideposts to practice ethical, relevant, and sensitive inquiries. It is essential to further adapt research approaches based on the unique geographical, sociopolitical, and cultural attributes of partnering tribal communities. These adaptations are largely shaped by trial and error. Objectives The purpose of this article is to offer the prospective novice nurse researcher lessons that we learned when entering Indian country to conduct research for the first time. As indigenous and nonindigenous researchers, we are not seeking to set down a methodology but rather offer a list of processes, environments, timelines, and barriers that we never learned in didactic, seminar, clinical, practicum, or any other academic setting. Methods We organized a set of memories and thoughts through a series of semistructured iterative sessions specific to our first encounters as researchers in Indian country. We compiled our written responses and field notes from our dialogue, interpreted these data, and organized them into themes. We have reported what we felt would be the most surprising, frequent, or important information to note. Results We identified three overarching themes in our collective experience: orientation and negotiation, situating ourselves and our work, and navigating our way. Subthemes included perceiving ourselves as outsiders, negotiating distance and time realities, relying on the goodness of gatekeepers, shaping research questions per community priorities, honing our cross-cultural and intercultural communication skills, discovering the many layers of tribal approval processes, and developing sensibilities and intuition. Discussion Our previous experiences as novices leading research projects in Indian country have produced unique sensibilities that may serve to guide nurse researchers who seek to partner with tribal communities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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