World Views & Nursing Research

Question 1

Science

Answer 1

Intellectual and practical activity that systematically studies the structure and behaviour of physical and natural world through observation and experiment. It is systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject.

Question 2

Paradigm

Answer 2

Provides lense, frame and process inquiry it’s built upon.

Question 3

Power of perspective

Answer 3

It affects how we think, how we feel, and what we do.

Question 4

Worldview

Answer 4

How you view the world, what you accept as true about the world, what’s real ad true for us. It is influenced by family, culture, society and education.

Question 5

Inquiry

Answer 5

Seeking truth to solve problems. It leads to knowledge development.

Question 6

Nursing science

Answer 6

The process of inquiry to create and develop nursing’s body of knowledge.

Question 7

Ontology

Answer 7

What exists? What is reality?

Question 8

Epistemology

Answer 8

Nature and theory of knowledge.

Question 9

Methodology

Answer 9

Methods applied to field of study.

Question 10

Positivism/empiricism

Answer 10

It involves control and prediction. The scientific method is used to develop general abstract laws and to predict and describe patterns in the real world which is driven by cause and effect.

Question 11

Criticism of positivism

Answer 11

1. Impossible to control many factors in humans
2. Does not recognize other forms of knowing
3. Does not reflect values of holism, person-centred care, and understanding of human experiences.

Question 12

Interpretive approach

Answer 12

Emphasizes understanding of meaning individuals ascribe to their actions and actions of others.It studies people and their lived experiences.

Question 13

Criticisms of interpretive approach

Answer 13

1. Ignores reality of physiological problems related to health and disease.
2. Nursing is not social science and one must acknowledge physiological and psychological phenomena.
3. Qualitative data are interesting stories that are not generalizable and do not advance the profession.

Question 14

Critical Worldview

Answer 14

It deals with emancipation, the method is dialogue and it seeks to free people from the effects of societal pressure, structure and counters oppression.