BUILDING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH QUALITATIVE RESEARCH - THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

Authors
PARSE RR
Citation
Rr. Parse, BUILDING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH QUALITATIVE RESEARCH - THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, Nursing science quarterly, 9(1), 1996, pp. 10-16
Citations number
66
Categorie Soggetti
Nursing
Journal title
Nursing science quarterly → ACNP
ISSN journal
08943184
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
10 - 16
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-3184(1996)9:1<10:BKTQR->2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
In this article, the author specifies the ontological, epistemological , and methodological differences among selected borrowed qualitative r esearch methods and the three extant nursing research methods. A furth er distinction is made between nursing knowledge per se and general kn owledge that can be used by nurses. Building nursing knowledge require s a connection with extant nursing theories and frameworks.