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An Analysis of Entry Into Practice Arguments
Author(s) -
Warner Sandra L.,
Ross M. Candice,
Clark Lori
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00079.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , demographics , identification (biology) , heuristic , content analysis , epistemology , psychology , sociology , positive economics , social science , medicine , philosophy , economics , demography , botany , biology
This article describes the findings derived from a content analysis of arguments related to the entry‐into‐practice issue. Written and oral testimonies presented to the North Dakota Board of Nursing were examined within the framework of Lewin's change theory. An analysis of what was said and by whom, provided a heuristic classification of the substantive content of the arguments and the identification of argument profiles in terms of selected demographics.