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    This document summarizes a philosophical paper on qualitative research approaches in nursing. It discusses that while qualitative research has been used in other disciplines, it is still emerging in nursing. There is an irreconcilable conflict between quantitative and qualitative paradigms on a philosophical level. The paper argues that nursing research needs broader definitions that move beyond a sense-organ bias and give qualitative researchers more legitimacy. It introduces several qualitative approaches grounded in phenomenological philosophy, which focuses on subjective experiences and interpretations.

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    This document summarizes a philosophical paper on qualitative research approaches in nursing. It discusses that while qualitative research has been used in other disciplines, it is still emerging in nursing. There is an irreconcilable conflict between quantitative and qualitative paradigms on a philosophical level. The paper argues that nursing research needs broader definitions that move beyond a sense-organ bias and give qualitative researchers more legitimacy. It introduces several qualitative approaches grounded in phenomenological philosophy, which focuses on subjective experiences and interpretations.

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    This document summarizes a philosophical paper on qualitative research approaches in nursing. It discusses that while qualitative research has been used in other disciplines, it is still emerging in nursing. There is an irreconcilable conflict between quantitative and qualitative paradigms on a philosophical level. The paper argues that nursing research needs broader definitions that move beyond a sense-organ bias and give qualitative researchers more legitimacy. It introduces several qualitative approaches grounded in phenomenological philosophy, which focuses on subjective experiences and interpretations.

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    NLN Publ. 1993 Aug;(19-2535):66-93.

    Philosophical foundations of qualitative research.


    Boyd CO.

    Abstract
    Although new and still emerging for us, qualitative research approaches have been receiving
    considerable attention for some time in other disciplines. Along with philosophical debates, there
    are debates about whether there needs to be a debate. On a philosophical level, there is
    irreconcilable conflict between the quantitative and qualitative paradigms. It is important to
    recognize this conflict, avoiding illogical compromise. Yet, proponents of each paradigm need to
    applaud both the existence of the other and the hybrid paradigms that inevitably are born of
    conflict. An apt beginning would be broader definitions of what constitutes science and research
    in nursing, eliminating the sense-organ bias that is so contrary to our philosophy for practice. This
    alone would provide qualitative nurse researchers with the sanction they need to progress in their
    exploration of various approaches to creating a science and a body of knowledge in, for, and
    about nursing practice. In the chapters to follow, readers will be introduced to several qualitative
    research approaches. Each approach represents an interpretation of the qualitative paradigm in
    nursing research, grounded in the general perspective of phenomenological philosophy. This
    perspective focuses on phenomena as they appear and recognizes that reality is subjective and a
    matter of appearances for us in our social world. Subjectivity means that the world becomes real
    through our contact with it and acquires meaning through our interpretations of that contact. Truth,
    then, is a composite of realities, and access to truth is a problem of access to human subjectivity.
    This perspective guides the qualitative researcher in nursing to the subject matter of lived
    experiences, which are the original contacts with a world, and of the processes and content of
    interpretation--the meaning attributions that constitute realities and perspectives for a future of
    possibilities in the world. Other consequences of a phenomenological perspective in research
    include deliberate attention to the researcher's involvement in the study, engagement of multiple
    modes of awareness, and creative expression of findings. The product of efforts to establish a
    phenomenological baseline, a thorough and accurate description of nursing phenomena (a task
    that remains forever incomplete), will be clarified nursing concepts. If we encourage our
    qualitative nurse researchers, we can look forward to enhanced relevance in theoretical and
    empirical comments about nursing from studies guided by a mature nursing identity.

    PMID: 8247713
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