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护理知识发展中的测量值:基础哲学、文稿和评论
Author(s) -
Durepos Pamela,
Orr Elizabeth,
Ploeg Jenny,
Kaasalainen Sharon
Publication year - 2018
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/jan.13778
Subject(s) - constructive , positivism , epistemology , reductionism , realism , constructivism (international relations) , philosophy of science , nursing , nursing interventions classification , psychology , engineering ethics , sociology , medicine , psychological intervention , computer science , process (computing) , philosophy , international relations , politics , political science , law , engineering , operating system
Aim A philosophical discussion of constructive realism and measurement in the development of nursing knowledge is presented. Background Through Carper's four patterns of knowing, nurses come to know a person holistically. However, measurement as a source for nursing knowledge has been criticized for underlying positivism and reductionist approach to exploring reality. Which seems mal‐alignment with person‐centred care. Design Discussion paper. Discussion Constructive realism bridges positivism and constructivism, facilitating the measurement of physical and psychological phenomena. Reduction of complex phenomena and theoretical constructs into measurable properties is essential to building nursing's empiric knowledge and facilitates (rather than inhibits) person‐knowing. Implications for nursing Nurses should consider constructive realism as a philosophy to underpin their practice. This philosophy supports measurement as a primary method of inquiry in nursing research and clinical practice. Nurses can carefully select, and purposefully integrate, measurement tools with other methods of inquiry (such as qualitative research methods) to demonstrate the usefulness of nursing interventions and highlight nursing as a science.