Conduct an analysis of a problematic professional discourse in clinical practice or a health issue that results in inequity or harm. This assignment will be a maximum of 10 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract and references.
Choose a health-related topic relevant to your practice setting or community.
Locate 8-10 scholarly research articles that will inform your analysis of your chosen discourse. Be sure that your references are peer reviewed research articles rather than opinion/editorial, or review articles (e.g., systematic, literature, discussion).
Next, analyze these articles to show how the assumptions of the empirical, constructivist and critical paradigms influence the knowledge that was produced. For example, the assumptions of the paradigms may influence research questions, research methods, data analysis, and conclusions. In this way, the paradigms influence what is known and what can be known from the research studies/articles. Your analysis will demonstrate your understanding of how the assumptions of the paradigms influence knowledge production and then how this knowledge shapes power and culture.
Use the following guide and headings to write your analysis of the professional discourse
A. Introduction and Background to the Topic
Provide a brief (less than a page) background to the topic to establish the context for the paper. You will need all of the remaining 9 pages to cover the requirements for this paper.
B. Approach to the Literature Search
Provide a brief (one paragraph) description of the methods used to locate the literature reviewed for the paper. The search terms and limits you placed on the search strategy influence the types of articles you located and therefore, your search strategies shape the discourse.
C. The Paradigms (40%)
Using the assumptions of the paradigms, analyze your chosen peer reviewed articles to explain how the knowledge in the articles was produced.
Justify your analysis by referring to the paradigms’ underlying assumptions and specific examples from the articles. Discuss how the assumptions of the paradigm used by the authors influence the research questions, purpose of the article, research methods including analysis and conclusions, or recommendations for practice.
Which paradigm dominates the discourse? Why?
D. Power Relations (25%)
Using the findings from your discourse analysis (not your practice), describe how the professional literature establishes and maintains power relations.
A common mistake is to apply your clinical or expert opinion to describe why the power imbalances exist. Resist this temptation. Use your chosen literature. You will use your expertise in the next assignment.
How are the power relations among the differing parties (patients, health care providers, government) depicted in the discourse about the topic?
Which parties are more powerful, and which are less powerful?
How does the discourse silence certain perspectives?
What views and voices are not heard?
E. Cultural Issues (15%)
How are cultural variables considered or represented in the discourse?
For instance, how are social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, sexual preference, disease or disability, the culture of health professions/systems, or other cultural variables represented in the discourse?
F. Conclusion
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