Janice M. Morse 6 THE BATTLEFIELD OF KNOWLEDGE: DIFFERENT PURPOSES, DIFFERENT APPROACHES “It’s a bird.” “It’s a plane.” “It’s Superman!” —Maxwell and Duchovny (1939) As our perception of something changes,…
Janice M. Morse 11 CONCEPT EVALUATION: DETERMINING APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES FOR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT1 Trust, but verify. —Ronald Reagan Concepts do not dichotomously simply exist or not exist. Rather, scientific concepts are…
Janice M. Morse 2 WHERE WE CAME FROM I have a confession—and an apology—to make. Once, in 1982, the director of nursing at a Canadian hospital decided to implement a…
Judith A. Spiers 10 THE PINK ELEPHANT PARADOX (OR, AVOIDING THE MISATTRIBUTION OF DATA)1 One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in…
Janice M. Morse 8 SUMMARY OF MAJOR METHODS FOR EXPLORING CONCEPTS “Anything worth doing, is worth doing properly …” —Bob’s mother (personal communication) Important concepts that contribute to the discipline,…
Janice M. Morse 1 THE FRINGES OF KNOWLEDGE If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical and…
