Qualitative Strategies for Concept Development
Janice M. Morse 12 QUALITATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Concepts shape how we think about the patients, families, and communities with whom we work. They direct our observations and our…
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Qualitative Structured Techniques
Janice M. Morse 15 QUALITATIVE STRUCTURED TECHNIQUES Analysis of any kind involves a way of thinking. It refers to the systematic examination of something to determine its parts, the relationship…
Linking and Ordering Concepts
Janice M. Morse 22 LINKING AND ORDERING CONCEPTS The First Rule of Conceptualization It must be possible And it should be probable And then If it can be verified, even…
Developing Quantitative Theory
Janice M. Morse 27 DEVELOPING QUANTITATIVE THEORY Theories cannot be verified absolutely and forever; however, they can be falsified—i.e., they can be proven to be wrong—given a certain degree of…
Research Using Pragmatic Utility
Janice M. Morse 18 RESEARCH USING PRAGMATIC UTILITY Researchers who disagree about facts will often use concepts in different ways, rightly so. After all concepts are not designed to “fit”…
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…
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…
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 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…
