The Prototypical Method
Janice M. Morse 16 THE PROTOTYPICAL METHOD Q: How many people of a certain classification does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: More than one. Recall the definition…
Concepts in Context
Janice M. Morse 7 CONCEPTS IN CONTEXT … the important innovations in social science are conceptual, a way of seeing the social world, and that the most important innovations that…
Toward Understanding Comfort and Comforting
Janice M. Morse 36 TOWARD UNDERSTANDING COMFORT AND COMFORTING Nurses who work in the hospital, work with patients who have ongoing irreversible, irretrievable suffering. Physical suffering, emotional suffering, mental suffering—anguish…
The Evolution of Our Understanding of Suffering: The Praxis Theory of Suffering
Janice M. Morse 35 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SUFFERING: THE PRAXIS THEORY OF SUFFERING The primary role of nursing is to care for those who are ill or…
The Social Determinants of Health: An Expanded Conceptual Framework for Nursing
Shirley M. Solberg 28 THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: AN EXPANDED CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR NURSING If our goal is to reduce health disparities rather than to just study them, nursing…
Building Concepts
Janice M. Morse 14 BUILDING CONCEPTS A concept … refers to the properties of a phenomenon, not the phenomenon itself. It gives meaning to what can be seen, heard, tasted,…
Concept Identification Using Qualitative Inquiry
Janice M. Morse 13 CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION USING QUALITATIVE INQUIRY What is wrong with health care are its concepts and words, rather than its picayune—but rather costly—procedures. —Ivan Illich (1994) Concept…
From Concept Development to Qualitatively Derived Theory: Ethical Sensitivity in Professional Practice
Kathryn Weaver 21 FROM CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT TO QUALITATIVELY DERIVED THEORY: ETHICAL SENSITIVITY IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE The signs – sometimes imperceptible, at others very clear – are all around us. But…
Modes of Releasing in the Praxis Theory of Suffering: The Responses of Women to the Results of Breast Biopsy
Janice M. Morse and Charlotte Pooler 24 MODES OF RELEASING IN THE PRAXIS THEORY OF SUFFERING: THE RESPONSES OF WOMEN TO THE RESULTS OF BREAST BIOPSY For the next thirty-six…
The Praxis Theory of Comfort and Comforting
Janice M. Morse 37 THE PRAXIS THEORY OF COMFORT AND COMFORTING1 Asked by elderly woman: “What do you call a group of nurses?” Answer: “A comfort!” What, then, is comfort?…
