The role of theory in qualitative research.

abstract：:The purpose of this phenomenological study was to uncover the meaning of the lived experience of choosing life goals. Seven married women, nurse administrators between the ages of 27-37, employed in middle management positions in two large metropolitan hospitals, were asked to provide a written description of a situat...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Costello-Nickitas DM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of change. More precisely, considering insights from Buddhism, existential philosophy, and modern developmental thought, this paper will discuss two aspects of change: (a) change as a fundamental, inevitable aspect of life, and (b) change as a process of risking to c...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： DeFeo DJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing knowledge is housed in its paradigms, philosophies, models, and theories. This knowledge must be utilized to demark nursing's unique contributions within healthcare, regardless of the setting. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which Parse's community model may serve as a way to think about he...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Ortiz MR

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this column, the author describes imaginative capacities that encourage imaginative thinking and creating anew. Concepts from the nursing theory of humanbecoming are presented to further explore the applicability of focusing on cultivating the imagination in nursing curricula. A nursing seminar is proposed, entitle...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bunkers SS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of life, from the person's perspective, is the goal of the human becoming theory. Thus far, research on quality of life has been implemented from a totality paradigm perspective, excluding consideration of the human as a unitary being. The most valuable conclusion to be drawn from all the research is that qual...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Parse RR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evolve a structural description of the experience of recovering from addiction. The phenomenological method was chosen for the study. The sample consisted of three subjects recovering from addiction. The subjects were asked to write a description of a situation in which they were aware...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Banonis BC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nursing profession in the Sultanate of Oman in the past 50 years has undergone considerable growth and development. Its modernization was assisted by visiting professors from outside the country and by sending some nurses to study abroad. Visiting nurses and nurse educators who go to work in countries like Oman sh...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Baumann SL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing education often focuses attention on the interminable amount of information required of students to learn. This learning must be accomplished in a short time frame and at a rapid pace. With attention focused here, students and faculty may not recognize the importance of taking time to celebrate the now. In thi...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Condon BB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an introduction to the column on the Concept Inventing of Sufferance. ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bunkers SS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the meaning of time passing for nine men with the human immunodeficiency virus. Framed within the human becoming theory, Parse's research method was chosen to guide this investigation. Findings show that for study participants time passing is a lumbering-hastening tempo clarifying opportunities and...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Northrup DT

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This column addresses the idea of practitioner as theorist as it may inspire new paths of theory development in practice for nursing. Historical and philosophical dimensions of theory development are discussed. Extant theory development strategies as well as new approaches for practice-based theory development are pro...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Reed PG

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-care is essential for elderly individuals to maintain their optimal level of health. This meta-analysis was conducted to summarize research findings relating to self-care among the elderly in Thailand. Twenty studies undertaken from 1990 to 2008 were used and 328 effect sizes were computed. Most studies were unpu...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Klainin P,Ounnapiruk L

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of humanbecoming can be illuminated through utilizing popular literature as a situation study. The living experience of Morrie Schwartz as related in Tuesdays with Morrie, serves as exemplar for lingering presence, the emerging now, and the three themes of meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence. This exemp...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Delis PC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of nurses' participation in health policy leadership is discussed within the context of Rogers' science of unitary human beings, Barrett's power theory, and one nurse-politician's experience. Nurses have a major role to play in resolving public policy issues that influence the health of people. A brief ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Wright BW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This column provides a report of the effectiveness of a nursing program in Hong Kong that used narrative pedagogy. The comments of 12 recent graduates from a postgraduate baccalaureate nursing degree program who were willing to participate in a series of focus group meetings were included. The findings show that nursi...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Chan EA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author in this article presents a theory of decision-making in nursing, specifically a middle-range theory of intuitive decision-making in nursing created through the synthesis of Patricia Benner's model of skill acquisition in nursing and Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis. The author proposes that Damasio's som...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Payne LK

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the meaning of living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) using Parse's theory of man-living-health as the conceptual framework. The design of the study is based on the qualitative descriptive method. Analysis of the data gathered from interviews with fourteen subjects reveals the emerg...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Nokes KM,Carver K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeling respected-not respected is an experience integral with the ways nurses choose to describe the quality of their work environments and with the quality of care they provide to patients and families. The purposes of this study were to enhance understanding of nurses' experiences of feeling respected-not respected...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Bournes DA,Milton CL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this column nurses influenced by Watson's human caring theory and Eriksson's theory of caritative caring share their ideas about what nursing theory-guided practice will be like in 2050. Following these contributions about caring theories in 2050, is a synthesis of threads of relatedness across the volume 20 Practi...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Mitchell GJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conducting studies at the end of life is often challenging for researchers due to the sensitive nature of the research, the vulnerability of the participants and the inherent methodological complexities. Methodological challenges include identifying and gaining access to eligible research participants, estimating the ...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Kavanaugh KL,Campbell ML

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imagination is powerful. It may bring questions to mind or bring clarity to wondering about something. Imagination may bring new thought, new ideas, and new possibles to day-to-day thinking, contemplation, and being. In this column, imagination will be explored first through a nursing perspective and then examined thr...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Letcher DC

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-three retrievable studies guided by the human becoming theory between 1985 and 2006, are reviewed. A summary of the studies is tabulated according to the two basic human becoming research methods, the human becoming applied research method, and other qualitative research methods using human becoming as the fram...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Doucet TJ,Bournes DA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nursing practice with abused women and their families based on Parse's theory of Man-Living-Health is described with emphasis on implementation of the practice processes flowing from the theory and common outcomes of the processes. A case study is presented to illustrate how the practice processes aided one couple i...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Butler MJ,Snodgrass FG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing theories are like myths, in that they contain symbolic representations that tell a story about nursing, and these stories represent or explain nursing's image, worldview, beliefs, and practices. Five theories are analyzed to identify the myths that they represent. It is proposed that uncovering the myth in nur...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Pilkington FB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphors are widely understood concepts or structures of human understanding undergirded with transformational creativity. The usages of metaphors are ubiquitous; they are used to convey unique meaning messages in healthcare disciplines. This article begins an ethical straight-thinking discussion of the defining aspe...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Milton CL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of this paper explore the distress that terminally ill children experience when they see the suffering their illness and dying is causing their parents. The authors refer to this experience as special sorrow. The conceptual framework that guides this reflection of the terminally ill child's experience is t...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Velasco-Whetsell M,Baumann SL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this ethnographic study with Mexican American families was to document characteristics of Mexican American family processes of nurturing, support, and socialization. Audiotaped conversations with participants were transcribed verbatim in Spanish or English. Content analysis was used to derive characteri...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Niska KJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the continued use of borrowed theories in nursing, little attention has been given to determining whether theories developed in another discipline are empirically adequate descriptions, explanations, or predictions of nursing phenomena. In this article, we demonstrate how a borrowed theory can be placed within...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Villarruel AM,Bishop TL,Simpson EM,Jemmott LS,Fawcett J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resilience is a phenomenon discussed by scholars in many disciplines; it holds similar definitions across the human, social, and physical sciences. It is important to understand the phenomenon from a variety of disciplines. Therefore, the author of this article reviews the existing literature on resilience from the di...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Daly LM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this essay is to share Kan Koffi's ideas about scientific revolutions in the discipline of nursing. Koffi has proposed that the works of Florence Nightingale and Martha E. Rogers represent two scientific revolutions in nursing as a learned discipline. The outcome of these two scientific revolutions is a...

journal_title：Nursing science quarterly

authors： Koffi K,Fawcett J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00