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Historical and epistemological perspectives on research and nursing
Author(s) -
Cushing Angela
Publication year - 1994
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1994.tb02373.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , nursing research , qualitative research , context (archaeology) , nursing literature , sociology , epistemology , focus (optics) , engineering ethics , nursing , psychology , social science , medicine , alternative medicine , political science , philosophy , history , physics , archaeology , optics , pathology , law , engineering
This paper examines four main themes with respect to some problematic issues concerning the discipline of nursing, nursing scholarship and the social sciences First, attention is directed to the controversial issues concerning nursing's search for a knowledge base Second, a historical context is provided by drawing attention to some key developments between the quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in nursing Third, the issue of the fundamental and attested difficulties in the application of qualitative methodologies is addressed Finally, it is submitted that in the interest of nursing's future as a scholarly endeavour, the discipline should focus polemic attention on the body of knowledge already accumulated