Análisis Estadístico de las Encuestas Realizadas al Personal de la

The purpose of this Enabler is to facilitate the researcher (or it can be used by a

clinician) to move from mainly a distrusted stranger to a trusted friend in order to obtain authentic, credible, and dependable data (or establish favorable relationships as a

clinician). The user assesses oneself by reflecting on the indicators while moving from stranger to trusted friend. There are dynamic indicators from cultures.

Indicators of Stranger (Largely etic or outsider’s views)

Dates Noted

Indicators of a Trusted Friend (Largely emic or insider’s views)

Dates Noted

Active to protect self and others. They are gatekeepers and guard against outside intrusions. Suspicious and questioning.

Less active to protect self. More trusting of researchers (their gate-keeping is

down or less). Less suspicious and less questioning of researcher.

Actively watch and are attentive to what researcher does and says. Limited signs of trusting the researcher or stranger.

Less watching the researcher’s words and actions. More signs of trusting and accepting a new friend.

Skeptical about the researcher’s motives and work. May question how findings will be used by the researcher or stranger.

Less questioning of the researcher’s motives, work and behavior. Signs of working with and helping the researcher as a friend.

Reluctant to share cultural secrets and views as private knowledge. Protective of local lifeways, values, and beliefs. Dislikes probing by the researcher or strangers.

Willing to share cultural secrets and private world information and

experiences. Offers mostly local views, values, and interpretations spontaneously or without probes.

Uncomfortable to become friend or to confide in stranger. May come late, be absent, and withdraw at times from researcher.

Signs of being comfortable and enjoying friendship – a sharing relationship. Gives presence, is on time, and gives evidence of being a genuine” true” friend.

Tends to offer inaccurate data. Modifies truths to protect self, family, community, and cultural lifeways. Emic expressions, beliefs, and practices are not shared

spontaneously.

Wants research truths to be accurate regarding beliefs, people, values, and lifeways. Explains and interprets emic ideas so researcher has accurate data of the culture and informant.

Open Ended Inquiry Guide ETHNODEMOGRAPHICS – Part I

Name: Religious affiliation:

Informant code: Years of education:

Age: Occupation:

Sex: Dates of interview:

Place of birth: Years at the college:

Residence:

OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS

CARE

1. What does the word “care” mean to you?

2. Describe a caring person? A caring faculty? A non-caring faculty?

3. Tell me why you chose this nursing program.

4. Describe to me incidents during which you provided care to a family member or friend.

5. In your culture/family, how do men, women, children, family members show care?

7. Tell me some of the ways you have cared for yourself while in nursing school.

8. Tell me about some of your expectation of care while in the nursing program.

HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND WELL-BEING

1. What does the word health mean to you? What does “well- being” mean to you?

2. Describe activities you do to maintain good health while in the nursing program.

3. Describe any cultural practices you do to improve or maintain your health.

4. Are there certain foods, medicine, or home remedies that you believe keep you healthy or improve health?

5. What does the word “illness” mean to you?

6. Describe any cultural practices you know that treat illnesses.

7. Tell me about the care you have received from nursing faculty, staff, or your peers.

8. In what ways has nursing school affected your health?

9. Tell me how the care you have received since starting school has affected your academic progress in school.

ENVIRONMENT

1. Tell me about your life since you started nursing school here. How has your daily life been affected by attending this nursing program?

2. Tell me about any foods or activities you believe keep you healthy.

3. Do you have concerns about the environment in which you live? Or go to school? Do you have a long commute to school?

KINSHIP/SOCIAL FACTORS

1. Do you have family living in this area?

2. How often do you visit with your family and friends?

3. What is your role/status in your family?

4. Tell me about your family and how they view your experiences in this nursing program.

5. Tell me about your relationship with nursing faculty and your peers.

6. How do you spend a typical day and night?

7. Who helps you when you are sick or need care?

8. Who helps you when you need assistance with school work?

9. Tell me about any of the resource programs you have used while at the college?

CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS FACTORS

1. Can you tell me about your customs and cultural lifeways?

2. Which cultural group do you identify yourself with?

3. Which religious holidays do you observe and how do you celebrate them?

4. Tell me about faculty whose values and beliefs about “care” differ from yours?

5. Tell me about the cultural groups that are represented in this college/nursing program.

5. Can you describe to me how nursing faculty view your cultural expressions, beliefs, and practices? Can you give me some examples?

6. What do you believe that nurses can do to help people stay healthy or to help them get better when they are not healthy?

7. What does religion mean to you? Describe for me your religious beliefs?

8. Does your religion or religious activities help you succeed in nursing school?

9. Can you describe for me how your religious beliefs have influenced you while in the nursing program?

ETHNODEMOGRAPHICS – Part IV

TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS

2. What types of technology are you comfortable with?

3. How do you see technology affecting the care received in the hospital?

4. How do you see technology affecting your education in the nursing program?

ECONOMICAL/POLITICAL FACTORS

1. What type of health insurance do you have?

2. What are your concerns about your economic situation in relation to

attending nursing school? Tell me how you are financing school? Has the college or nursing program assisted you with any funding or financial assistance?

3. Tell me about your working schedule while you are in school?

4. Who is in charge of the budgeting in your family?

5. Tell me how your economic situation affects your health and well-being?

6. Tell me about political factors, either at the college, in the state, or in your local environment that affect you as an individual?

7. Tell me about your views of the political situation in this country?

8. How do/can political or professional leaders show care/caring to you as an individual?