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A re‐examination of the experimental design for nursing research
Author(s) -
Poole Karen,
Jones Adrian
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.16215.x
Subject(s) - certainty , causality (physics) , research design , politics , exploratory research , psychology , epistemology , nursing , management science , computer science , medicine , sociology , social science , political science , economics , law , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper will present a case for the re‐examination of the experimental design for contemporary nursing research It is an attempt to re‐dress the academic ‘romance’ with the new found orientation towards exploratory descriptive research To make the case, there is a need to make explicit some of the erroneous assumptions regarding the philosophical origins of the experimental design By ignoring the contribution of the experimental design, there is the risk of overlooking certain areas of potential nursing knowledge This is particularly pertinent in the current political climate, where the need to provide cost‐effective outcomes is reliant upon the principles of causality and certainty inherent in experimental designs