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W K Cody

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PubMed1995

The meaning of grieving for families living with AIDS.

Parse's research method was used to study the meaning of grieving for families living with AIDS. In videotaped dialogues, diverse families living with AIDS described their experiences of grieving in relation to death and other losses. Narratives of the grieving experiences of each family were constructed. Through the process of extraction-synthesis, the structure of grieving was generated. The four concepts within the structure are explicated in this article as essential in family grieving. Further interpretation led to a theoretical structure of grieving within the human becoming belief system. This view of grieving, as a multidimensional rhythmical process of intersubjective becoming, expands and specifies nursing's theory base. The study also confirms that Parse's methodology is valuable for family-centered nursing research.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1994

Nursing theory-based practice in the home and community: the crux of professional nursing education.

Nursing has been viewed as a service for people wherever they may be--a service, grounded in scientific knowledge, that transcends setting. Yet nursing education has been overwhelmed by hospital institutions for the past 50 years, its attention diverted to medical entities and institutional trends, with fragmentation and depersonalization of general health care as well as nursing care as the result. Nursing theory-based practice is not feasible in institutions where medical orders overshadow all other disciplines. Community-based experiences in which nursing students learn about people and their health in the context of home and community offer the best promise for students to learn the complex human dynamics of real life and develop the holistic perspective required for independent nursing practice. The time has passed for nursing education to focus on the fraction of the population in hospitals while slighting knowledge about health as it is lived every day. Priority content for all nursing students should be a portable nursing theorybase that can be taken anywhere, focusing on health promotion, healthy environments, and quality of life.

Community Health Nursing↗
PubMed1994

Homeless patients: designing a database for nursing documentation.

Care of the homeless in small out-patient clinic settings presents unique challenges in health care documentation. The transitory and infrequent episodic nature of client contact, as well as the inherent inefficiencies of the traditional paper chart, tend to minimize the collection of useful data for analyzing trends and patterns to identify and meet evolving health care needs.

Databases, Factual↗
PubMed1993

The role of theory in qualitative research.

Increasingly philosophers and scientists have affirmed that all knowledge is theory-laden and that methods are theory-driven. These assertions raise important questions related to the role of theory in qualitative research. There are scholars who propose that qualitative research can enhance understanding and expand theoretical knowledge from a disciplinary perspective. And there are others who contend that qualitative inquiry is purely inductive and that its validity can therefore be judged by the extent to which preconceived theory is absent from it. The purpose of this article is to examine three qualitative methods, grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology, and their use in nursing in order to explicate the role of theory in knowledge development. The authors propose that, by nature, inquiry, discovery, and theoretical interpretation coexist simultaneously and must be recognized as such if the theory-research linkage is to advance nursing science through qualitative research.

Anthropology, Cultural↗
PubMed1992

Parse's theory as a model for practice: the cutting edge.

If nursing practice is the performing art of the science of nursing, then practice is guided by nursing theory and cannot be considered separately from it. Nursing theory based practice is the cutting edge of the discipline. Practice methods reflect the beliefs and values of the theories from which they evolve. Nurses' values and beliefs about human beings and health are incarnated in the way they practice. This article presents Parse's theory of human becoming as a model for practice; explicates the beliefs, values, and ethic of the practice method; analyzes the logical coherence of theory and method; illustrates the pragmatics of the method, and gives evidence of its soundness. The theory-research-practice triad developed by Parse articulates a paradigmatic view of the discipline as a whole with a view of the human being as a living unity freely choosing personal meanings in life situations. Parse's practice methodology provides nurses with a way of practicing with a focus on the quality of life as it is humanly lived. It is presented here as the practice component of an emergent theory-research-practice tradition on the cutting edge of nursing science.

Ethics, Nursing↗
PubMed1992

Nursing knowledge and human science: ontological and epistemological considerations.

This article examines the meaning of human science in relation to extant nursing knowledge. The origins of the human science tradition are traced to the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, who challenged the dominance of the positivist perspective for generating knowledge of the human lifeworld. Specific ontological and epistemological criteria for human science are proposed. Four nursing frameworks, Paterson and Zderad's humanistic nursing, Newman's model of health as expanding consciousness, Watson's human science and human care, and Parse's theory of human becoming, are found to have consistencies and inconsistencies with the human science tradition. It is proposed that the human science perspective is present in and will continue to be reflected in the evolution of nursing science.

Humans↗