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Nurs Inq. 1998 Jun;5(2):104-11. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.1998.520104.x.

Phenomenologies as research methodologies for nursing: from philosophy to researching practice.

Nursing inquiry

J Lawler

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  1. Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing (MO2), University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

PMID: 9923304 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.1998.520104.x

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the popularity of phenomenologies and the tensions that arise from their use as research methodologies in nursing. Among these tensions are: the troublesome issues of adapting a fundamentally philosophical means of understanding human being(s) for use as a more pragmatic and robust research approach in a practice discipline; the various types of phenomenology and the confusions that surround these and other interpretive methodologies, particularly within different intellectual and cultural traditions; and the need for nursing to find a space in which it can give voice to aspects of its practice that are silenced in less existentially oriented methodologies. Although phenomenologies are currently popular and possibly fashionable in nursing, there are important issues in relation to their use in a methodological sense that remain to be addressed.

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