Fundamentals of Nud*ist 6

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Fundamentals of Nudist 6

• Overview for Nursing Faculty
• May 2003
• by June Kaminski, MSN

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Tasks done with Nudist 6

• Data Collection
• Start New Project
• Import Data
• Identify Themes
• Annotations
• Memoing
• Text Searches
• String Searches

• Pattern Searches
• Manual Coding
• In Vivo Coding
• Cluster Themes - tree nodes
• Latent analysis
• Text/Visual Display of Final Report

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Collect Import Data

• Collect qualitative data eg focus group, survey,
  dialogue
• Import all data into New Project as txt or rtf
  files and save
• Browse your data documents within Document
  Explorer

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Identify Themes

• Determine Text Unit
• Annotations within text record observation
• Memos record personal thoughts, memos, reminders
• Themes are clustered into Free Nodes

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Methods for Identifying Themes

• Word Repetition
• Indigenous categories
• Keywords in Context
• Compare Contrast
• Whats Missing?
• Metaphors, Analogies

• Transitions
• Connectors
• Unmarked text
• Pawing through text
• Cutting sorting for sub themes

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Searching

• Searching is done as
• TEXT Searches that can be further divided into
• STRING Searches - a sequence of characters
• PATTERN Searches - eg want/need/desire

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Cluster Themes into Tree Nodes

• Create Tree Nodes by clustering Free Nodes in the
  Index Tree
• View manipulate nodes in Tree Display Window
  a powerful hierarchical index system for analysis

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Latent Analysis

• Tables are possible to display Cluster Analysis
  of findings
• Matrix analysis can be done to display category
  node data

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Final Report

• Narrative summary of identified themes, memos,
  annotations
• Table summary of theme and subthemes
• Matrix summary of categories