Premium
Critical Multiplism: A Research Strategy for Nursing Science
Author(s) -
Coward Doris D.
Publication year - 1990
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.1547-5069.1990.tb00201.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , perspective (graphical) , nursing research , nursing science , nursing , work (physics) , psychology , engineering ethics , sociology , medicine , epistemology , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , artificial intelligence , engineering
This paper describes critical multiplism from the perspective of the world views and models of scientific inquiry that frequently guide the work of nurse scientists. Nurse scientists may wish to consider critical multiplism as a research strategy within a dialectical model of scientific inquiry to study the multiple realities of interest to nurses. This approach to nursing knowledge development may enhance the usefulness of nursing research findings in nursing practice.