TY - JOUR
T1 - Appreciative inquiry
T2 - A strength-based research approach to building Canadian public health nursing capacity
AU - Knibbs, Kristin
AU - Underwood, Jane
AU - MacDonald, Mary
AU - Schoenfeld, Bonnie
AU - Lavoie-Tremblay, Mélanie
AU - Crea-Arsenio, Mary
AU - Meagher-Stewart, Donna
AU - Stamler, Lynnette
AU - Blythe, Jennifer
AU - Ehrlich, Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by: Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (Grant Number RC2-1471-06); Public Health Agency of Canada (Grant Number 6266-15-2006/8660001); Health Canada (Health Human Resources Strategy Division; Office of Nursing Policy; First Nations and Inuit Health Branch); British Columbia Ministry of Health Services (Nursing Directorate; Communicable Diseases and Addictions Prevention Branch); McMaster University, Nursing Health Services Research Unit; and Vancouver Coastal Health. These funders had no part in the study design, data collection, analysis or interpretation. Acknowledgement of them does not imply endorsement of the results or analysis.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - In this paper we evaluate the use of appreciative inquiry in focus groups with public health nurses, managers and policy makers across Canada as part of our project to generate policy recommendations for building public health nursing capacity. The focus group protocol successfully involved participants in data collection and analysis through a unique combination of appreciative inquiry and nominal group process. This approach resulted in credible data for analysis, and the final analysis met scientific research standards. The evaluation revealed that our process was effective in engaging participants when their time available was limited, no matter what their position or public health setting, and in eliciting solution-focused results. By focusing on what works well in an organisation, appreciative inquiry enabled us to identify the positive attributes of organisations that best support public health nursing practice and to develop practical policy recommendations because they were based on participants' experience. Further, appreciative inquiry was especially effective with public health policy makers and nurses as it is consistent with the strength-based, capacity building approaches inherent in public health nursing practice.
AB - In this paper we evaluate the use of appreciative inquiry in focus groups with public health nurses, managers and policy makers across Canada as part of our project to generate policy recommendations for building public health nursing capacity. The focus group protocol successfully involved participants in data collection and analysis through a unique combination of appreciative inquiry and nominal group process. This approach resulted in credible data for analysis, and the final analysis met scientific research standards. The evaluation revealed that our process was effective in engaging participants when their time available was limited, no matter what their position or public health setting, and in eliciting solution-focused results. By focusing on what works well in an organisation, appreciative inquiry enabled us to identify the positive attributes of organisations that best support public health nursing practice and to develop practical policy recommendations because they were based on participants' experience. Further, appreciative inquiry was especially effective with public health policy makers and nurses as it is consistent with the strength-based, capacity building approaches inherent in public health nursing practice.
KW - Appreciative inquiry
KW - evaluation
KW - focus groups
KW - nominal group process
KW - public health nursing
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U2 - 10.1177/1744987110387472
DO - 10.1177/1744987110387472
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84865104554
VL - 17
SP - 484
EP - 494
JO - Journal of Research in Nursing
JF - Journal of Research in Nursing
SN - 1744-9871
IS - 5
ER -