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- Title
NURSING IS -- AND HAS -- A METHODOLOGY: A NURSING VOICE.
- Authors
Litchfield, Merian
- Abstract
Access to nursing is at the core of health care in civilised societies. This paper is about naming, framing and claiming nursing's contemporary significance for health and people's lives through research. I argue that a nursing paradigm, with its historial ethos of caring and humanness, identifies and differentiates nursing's perspective on health, reframing the paradigm of practical expertise. Drawing on my experience in research, I establish my rationale for nursing as a paradigm that frames "research as-if practice", as participatory. Through research, each nurse, as practitioner/ researcher, evolves and presents findings as practice wisdom: the coherence of the knowing and the doing aspects of nursing. The significance of nursing is explained as being its knowledgeable practitioners -- their methodology is not deterministic, and involves "what can be" for all participating. The nursing voice comes from the collective. The need for kōrero, and for a succinct phrase indicating the distinctly nursing perspective of health in Aotearoa/New Zealand as a reference point are emphasised.
- Subjects
NURSING; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING practice; PARADIGMS (Social sciences); MEDICAL research personnel; NURSES
- Publication
Kaitiaki Nursing Research, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
1179-772X
- Publication type
Article