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| The end of the thesis ≠ The end of the question |
I waited a few days in case there was a major resubmission. There wasn't thankfully! So then after what has been 3 months of posting what more can I say than... Phew!
So what did I finally submit?
My thesis book in a nutshell:
- Rationalized a dire need for an online system for nurses for CPD as well as a means for regularizing unregistered nurses in the private sector
- Introduced nursing in general and finally went down to the private sector
- Exposed the problem of the non-registered nurses and discussed the existing attempt to run a refresher nursing course
- Made objectives to perform the pilot project
- Saw what the literature had to say about what had been done with online nursing courses
- Applied a method to make the system a reality
- Tested it with nurses
- Got their feedback
- Analyzed and discussed this data along with the data available in Moodle
- In general about the review of the students of the components in the course
- In detail about how they have spent their time in the course
- Tried to illustrate that their was no advantage even being a more learned staff nurse as compared to the student nurse and thus the main reason for learning was the design of the LMS so to speak to avoid the question if more experienced nurses had made the course seem 'good' because of their pre - training
- Gave my limitations
- Finally recommended how we should proceed in the future
My thesis CD included:
- A .pdf of my thesis
- Any source codes I used (In my case the flash project files I designed + the HTML)
- Clearly labelled with name and index number
What this thesis wont tell you
- Dont be fooled: The work required for even the most simplest scientific process is quite a bit. Value the time you have got. At a point with many problems around me I took it easy and finally had to race against the clock.
- Sleep less (which I did)
- Eat less (which I did not)
- Keep thinking: For me this thesis seemed like a constant answer of questions. And I kept on trying to answer questions within questions. So keep thinking of little details which might make your thesis distinct.
- Give insight: Off the bat I did not want to vomit out mere facts. I felt I needed to give insight to my examiner who will read my thesis and this what I strived to do: to give the story behind the facts.
- Blog blog blog: Who said a blog cant save your life? This blog did! I cannot remember how many times I was off track and this blog put me back on track. I feel this is particularly useful when working with a team member.
- Email email email: I was lucky in that my supervisors, Dr Gominda and Professor Jayantha were constant on the email. So push your luck and keep on emailing your supervisors even when you dont meet them for any doubt you have. They may grumble but in the end you and your supervisors will feel the better for it (with apologies to my supervisors).
Stay tuned for post viva voce updates...
