Creating a conceptual blueprint for nursing innovation through qualitative data synthesis
Keywords:
qualitative data, nursing innovation, draft of blueprint, data synthesisAbstract
This invited article presents guidelines and a method for synthesizing data from multiple qualitative sources. It serves as a foundation for further research aimed at generating new insights that could lead to practical applications, such as developing phenomenon descriptions, innovation blueprints, practice concepts, models, or theories. In addition, there is another term related to qualitative data synthesis, namely, qualitative evidence synthesis in a systematic literature review, which is not discussed in detail in this article. Qualitative data synthesis begins with questioning the results of interest to present them in a topic based on the purpose of seeking answers. This is followed by the synthesis of multiple qualitative data sets, in which data or results from multiple studies are combined to answer the specified questions, for further study until the results are new knowledge as mentioned above.
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