NURS 595 SYNTHESIS



NURS 595 SYNTHESIS

INTEGRATIVE QUESTIONS

SPRING 2002

1 How does your philosophical basis influence your choice of methods or

methodology?

2 Does all research have to have an explicit and/or implicit philosphical

basis?

3 Does philosphy influence theory development and/or testing?

4 Can a theory be tested using different methodologies?

5 How does conceptual framework influence the choice of methodologies?

6 How can human health ecology be applied as a conceptual framework to

develop the body of knowled in nursing science?

1. Whether the required courses in the first year of the doctoral program

(NURS588, NURS589, NURS590, NURS592, NMETH580) provides a coherent sequence of

core courses? If not, what is the suitable sequence? Why?

2. Since our Ph.D. in nursing program lack of practical requirement, how to

incorporating nursing knowledge from theory development, philosophy, and

methodological perspectives into the clinical setting and research?

3. Do you think the integrations of theory development, philosophy, and

methodological perspectives can generate new knowledge in nursing science?

4. How the required courses in the first year of the doctoral program can

prepares students to advance nursing practice and education through research

and scholarly activity, and teaching?

5. Is theory always necessary to guide nursing research and practice?

6. Do you think using a multimethod and/or triangulation of methods conduct

nursing research is better than using single methods?

1. Does a philosophical approach require the use of a specific methodology and/or

method?

2. Can a theory serve as tool of knowledge organization and generation under any

philosophical approach?

3. To what extent does the study of ecology of human health influence nursing as a

science?

4. Does the evaluation or development of certain theory require only empirical

examination or can we employ alternative approaches effectively?

5. How is methodology connected to certain philosophical approaches and methods?

6. Does a research question, theoretical approach or philosophical one obligate us to use

specific methods?

Are there any potential problems in utilizing a research methodology that

is vastly different from your basic philosophic scientific belief?

Does a research problem's underlying nursing theory affect the choice of

its methodological approach? How?

Does the significance of viewing a research problem within an ecological

context vary depending on the methodological approach one utilizies?

Philosophy

1. How do philosophy and methodology articulate - does a methodology

always, consistently articulate with the same philosophy?

2. Can our understanding of ecology be expressed in philosophical terms?

Theory

1. In intervention testing -how important is it that a study be

theory-guided?

2. Does theory prescribe methodology?

Methodology

1. Method-Methodology-Philosophy: to what degree is conceptual integrity

necessary?

2. How would I describe my personal methodological ecology? That is,

describe the web of context that effects my decision-making in

relation to choice of methodology. What methodology and I most

comfortable with and why.

Philosophy

According to philosophy course, how can ecology course be understood?

How can philosophical inquiry guide nursing therapeutics?

Theory

How can theory guide nursing therapeutics course research (scientific paper)?

Are most ground theories based on philosophy or not?

Methodology

1. How do philosophy relate to methodology? Can same methodology always use same philosophy?

2. How can ecology be understood by using different methodology?

Philosophy: 1. Specifically, how does philosophy link to theory in developing a

conceptual framework for research?

2. Is it appropriate to compare philosophical inquiry and

scientific inquiry? I do not view them as dichotomies and do not feel that

scientific inquiry is synonymous with "empirical approach", as sometimes used

in class. If nursing is concerned with systematic reflection upon human

affairs, many different approaches of scientific inquiry could be utilized.

Theory: 1. I can appreciate the difference between grand theory and middle

range theory..is it important to always distinguish what you are referring to

in conversation? Should we be more specific when speaking of "theory"?

2. The blending of disciplines such as nursing and informatics, nursing

and health services, etc. almost forces us to broaden our views and incorporate

theories from other disciplines...does this blur the scope of our professional

practice and the discipline of nursing?

Methodology: 1. The class on Methodological Perspectives left us very

enthusiastic about our research but my question is this...can a doctoral

student do justice to more than one methodology during the doctoral

dissertation? I feel less than well-prepared to undertake a research project

involving more than one methodology although I recognize that some projects may

naturally encompass more than one methodology.

2. There is so much emphasis on our personal research interest and

how we will design our study that our focus is narrowed and we may not have the

opportunity to explore other methodologies incorporating ecological

perspectives, therapeutic interventions, or social/political issues (depending

on what our interest area involves). Should there be less emphasis on our

single research phenomenon and more emphasis on the varying schools of thought

and how this can influence research design and methods?

Philosophy

1. Whar’s the relationship between philosophy and theory in the nursing inquiry?

2. How the philosophical approach can contribute to scientific-based nursing interventions (nursing therapeutics) ?

Theory

1. What’s the essential role of theory-deriven inursing interventions?

How do you decide what theory to choose for the development of body of knowledge in the decipline of nursing in terms of diverse methodologies?

Methodology

1. How apply the ecological perspective in different schools of thoughts?

2. How to link philosophy, theory and methodology in terms of implementing appropriate nursing therpeautics for improving the quality of care for the area you are interested?

Philosophy:

1.Is a methodology usually congruent with philosophy?

2.How closer are related between philosophy and ecology?

Methodology:

1.How ecology views (perspectives) can influence a researcher’s chosen of methodology?

2.How does theory/conceptual framework influence the choice of methodology?

Theory:

1.How does the theory/conceptual framework give direction to a methodology?

2.How a theory/conceptual framework extends the philosophy and guides nursing research?

#1. How are philosophical basis, methodology and theory, ecological perspective

connected in nursing science?

#2. What is the role of philosophy, methodologies, and theories in nursing

science to evolve the phenomena of health and to develop nursing science?

#3. What is the main focus of each philosophy, methodologies, and theories in

nursing science to evolve the phenomena of health and to develop nursing

science?

#4. How do each philosophy, methodology, and theories, and ecological

perspective explain the nursing domain?

#5. How we can integrate philosophy, theory, and research into nursing science

within ecological perspective to produce nursing knowledge?

#6. What is the difference between philosophical basis and methodological

perspective?

(philosophy)

1. Because philosophy focuses on providing framework for asking questions

about the central values, concepts, and assumptions of some particular

phenomena, how does one utilize ones philosophy as the guideline to formulate

his or her theoretical framework and to choose certain methodology for his or

her research interest?

2. Based on own philosophy, how does one define human, health, and

nursing? How will one integrate this definition into ones theoretical

framework for his or her research interest?

(theory)

1. In theory class, we debated in nursing. To what extent has

nursing discipline accepted pluralism at the philosophy of science and

philosophy of nursing?

2. Do any of the present nursing theories serve as potential predictive

principles for nursing as a science? Is there a future for developing nursing

theories as scientific theories?

(methodology)

1. Because multiple methodologies may compete with each other, what

benefit or function is served by holding multiple methodologies in one study?

Can RCTs include multiple methodologies?

2. In NURS 592, we debated about whether RCTs (randomized control trials)

as the gold standard of science. What are the interrelationships among

evidence-based practice, theory-based practice, and the philosophy of nursing?

And what are the methodological issues?

Philosophy

1. We talked about "Science is the basis of knowledge" in class.

Nobody had comments on this quote. What is "science"? When we say nursing

is a science, what mode of knowledge inquiry we are based on?

Theory

1. Can we view knowledge from other disciplines through a nursing

perspective? Or we just borrow it as what it is? Do we need to be unique

in some way to be a professional discipline, to be called "nursing

science"?

Methodology

1. How to combine different methodologies? (triangulation)? What is

the advantage and disadvantages?

2. What factors determine your choice of methodology? Philosophical

belief, societal values? or its generalizability?

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