Approaches to nursing science methods.
Approaches to nursing science methods.
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护理科学方法的途径。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00023.x
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发表时间:
1988
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通讯作者:
Phyllis R. Schultz
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作者:
Susan R. Gortner;Phyllis R. Schultz
cience is conceived today as being consensual, informed opinion about the natural world including human behavior and social action (Gortner, 1984; Ziman, 1980) rather than as a body of codified knowledge (Brooks, 1973; Gortner, 1974). While not synonymous with its tool (ie, research), science is characterized by systematic inquiry and thus by coherence, precision and generality (Batey, 1972; Ziman, 1980). Furthermore, science rests so heavily on empirical observations of the natural world, on empirical apprehending of experience of the human world and on judgements about those observations and apprehendings that its credibility lies in the main on demonstrated evidence. This last characteristic leads to a fur-ther criterion: intersubjectivity, that is, evidence and knowledge claims that can be corroborated by others. The consensual nature of scientific work is uniformly valued in societies for its normative, error-correcting features. Through open, professional scrutiny, knowledge claims are examined for their rigor, precision and contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of interest. This scrutiny leads to consen-sus on well-researched topics, helps to shift priorities, encourages the opening up of new fields of inquiry and promotes collaborative work. Scientific knowledge develops in this manner in any discipline.From preclassical times to the present there is an important history of agreement on scientific approaches, on the comple-mentary nature of induction and deduction and on the need to reconcile fact with theory. From the classical Greek period on, logic and systematic reasoning coupled with careful observation, reflection and intuition have constituted the essential processes for human understanding.