World Views in Nursing: Principles and Practice

W OR L D V I E W S OW IT. W E KN O W I T TH E WAY WE KN N O W W H A T WE K N OW AND WHY DO HO W D O WE K...

W OR L D V I E W S OW IT. W E KN O W I T TH E WAY WE KN N O W W H A T WE K N OW AND WHY DO HO W D O WE K 1 ADAPTED FROM DBENTHAM 2021 LEARNING OBJECTIVES  DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OR WORLD VIEWS USED IN DEVELOPING NURSING KNOWLEDGE  DESCRIBE THE COMPONENTS AND APPROACHES TO RESEARCH PARADIGMS  UNDERSTAND HOW NURSING RESEARCH IS APPLIED TO NURSING PRACTICE. HOW DO WE VIEW NURSING? IS IT A SCIENCE? IS IT AN ART? LET THE DEBATE BEGIN! 3  NURSING ‘ART’ ART IS: SKILL IN DOING ANYTHING AS THE RESULT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE. SKILL IN APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF A SPECIAL SCIENCE; TECHNICAL OR PROFESSIONAL SKILL. (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ON-LINE, 2000) 4  NURSING ‘SCIENCE’ ‘SCIENCE’ IS: “…KNOWLEDGE…AS OPPOSED TO BELIEF OR OPINION” “CONCERNED EITHER WITH A CONNECTED BODY OF DEMONSTRATED TRUTHS OR WITH OBSERVED FACTS SYSTEMATICALLY CLASSIFIED…INCLUDES TRUSTWORTHY METHODS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW TRUTH WITHIN ITS OWN DOMAIN.” (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ON-LINE, 2000) 5  NURSING KNOWLEDGE = SCIENCE + ART NURSING KNOWLEDGE IS OBTAINED THROUGH ‘SCIENTIFIC’ METHODS (EVIDENCE-INFORMED RESEARCH) AND APPLIED AS NURSING ART (CRITICAL THINKING & CLINICAL JUDGEMENT) IN PRACTICE. 6  Knowledge = Education Science = Theory Art = Practice 7 WHAT ARE WORLDVIEWS? RESEARCH PARADIGMS DEFINITIONS (PARADIGM) = A RESEARCH PARADIGM IS A METHOD, MODEL, OR PATTERN FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH. IT IS A SET OF IDEAS, BELIEFS, OR UNDERSTANDINGS WITHIN WHICH THEORIES AND PRACTICES CAN FUNCTION. RESEARCH PARADIGMS - COMPONENTS ONTOLOGY – BELIEFS ABOUT REALITY/TRUTHS EPISTEMOLOGY – BELIEFS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE (WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?) AXIOLOGY – THE AIMS OR VALUES OF THE RESEARCH METHOD/METHODOLOGY WATCH THE VIDEOS ON ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH PARADIGMS - APPROACHES PARADIGMS: POSITIVISM – SINGLE VIEWPOINT POST-POSITIVISM – SINGLE VIEWPOINT THAT CANNOT ALWAYS BE IDENTIFIED INTERPRETIVE / CONSTRUCTIVISM – MULTIPLE SUBJECTIVE REALITIES MENTALLY CONSTRUCTED BY INDIVIDUALS RADICAL – MULTIPLE REALITIES; BASED ON CHALLENGING AND CHANGING VIEWS TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE PRAGMATIC – SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS CRITICAL THEORY – AIMS TO CREATE AWARENESS AND ELICIT SOCIAL CHANGE RESEARCH PARADIGMS WATCH VIDEOS POSTED TO MOODLE ON VARIOUS PARADIGMS ARTICLE ANALYSIS IN SMALL GROUPS, REVIEW THE ARTICLE POSTED TO MOODLE AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: WHAT IS THE RESEARCHER’S WORLDVIEW(S) WHAT IS/WAS THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS THAT GUIDES THE RESEARCHERS WORK? REFERENCES POTTER, P., PERRY, A., ROSS-KERR, J.C., & WOOD, M.J. (2019). CANADIAN FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING. (6TH ED.). TORONTO, ON: ELSEVIER. PAGES 79-85 (SECTION ON NURSING RESEARCH). DAVIES, C. & FISHER, M. (2018). UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH PARADIGMS. JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN REHABILITATION NURSES ’ ASSOCIATION, 21(3), 21-25. REHMAN, A. & ALHARTHI, K. (2016) AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH PARADIGMS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS, 3(8), 51-59 ISSN: 2410-3446 WWW.IJEIONLINE.COM KELLY, M., DOWLING M, MILLER M. (2018) THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING: THE ROLE OF PARADIGMATIC WORLDVIEWS. NURSE RESEARCHER, 25(4), 9-13