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Supporting organizational learning: a comparative approach to evaluation in action research
Author(s) -
Livesey Heather,
Challender Shelia
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2834.2002.00323.x
Subject(s) - normative , action (physics) , narrative , action research , context (archaeology) , positivism , process (computing) , order (exchange) , health care , psychology , sociology , knowledge management , management science , public relations , political science , computer science , pedagogy , business , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics , law , biology , operating system
For well over a decade, the organizational context of nursing in the United Kingdom has been one of change and reform with a policy shift towards primary and community led health care. Such a major shift in policy provides nurses with an opportunity to re‐think their approaches towards the individuals and communities they serve in order to promote self‐care, recognize achievable health goals and provide family and community support. Although there is a growing appreciation of action research as an useful approach to this kind of development, it can be difficult to evaluate published studies because of the diverse nature of the literature. This paper will present and evaluate two case studies using a particular conceptual device (The Normative Information Model‐based Systems Analysis and Design) in order to explore a possible alternative to the interpretative narrative or positivistic hypothesis‐testing models used to report other kinds of nursing research and enlarge the debate about process evaluation.