NUR1 422 Lecture Notes - Experiment, External Validity, Formal System
13 Jun 2012
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Chapter 1: introducing research and its use in nursing practice. Nursing research systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of importance to nurses and serves to establish a base of knowledge for nursing practice. Paradigms world views with underlying assumptions about the complexities of reality. Positivist paradigm there is an objective reality and that natural phenomena (observable facts and events) are regular and orderly (quantitative research) Determinism events are not haphazard but rather the result of prior causes. Naturalistic paradigm reality is not a fixed entity but rather a construction of human minds, and thus truth is a composite of multiple constructions of reality (qualititative research) Qualitative research researchers within naturalistic paradigm emphasize understanding human experience as it is lived through the collection and analysis of subjective, narrative materials using flexible procedures that evolve in the field. Basic research designed to provide information for the sake of knowledge. Applied research designed to solve specific problems.
