Getting at the "So What?": The Interpretive Description Approach

In February and March 2022, NL SUPPORT will be hosting a Research Design Series, featuring weekly webinars from guest speakers on various quantitative and qualitative research topics.

Quantitative methods will be covered in February, and qualitative methods in March. The series is intended for students, researchers, patient partners and other professionals who have an interest in and/or would like to learn more about health research methodology.

This session will provide an overview of Interpretive Description, an approach to Qualitative research designed for the applied disciplines. Using this approach, the qualitative researcher remains grounded in the goal of knowledge translation from start to finish of a study.

Presenter:

Rebecca Puddester MN BN, RN is a PhD Student at the Faculty of Nursing at Memorial University. Her research interests involve genomics in nursing practice and she studied cancer genomic risk assessment through the intensive course at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer centre.