Examining progression and degeneration of nursing science using Imre Lakatos’s methodology of scientific research programs

Over the years, nursing research and practice have been through remarkable transformations in response to evolving and emerging healthcare systems and practices. Regarding research, nurses moved beyond merely using the quantitative methodology to combining qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods...

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主要作者: Younas, Ahtisham (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2021, 卷: 22, 发布: 2
Further subjects:B Nursing
B nursing science
B nursing research
B nursing knowledge
B programs of research
B nursing philosophy
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总结:Over the years, nursing research and practice have been through remarkable transformations in response to evolving and emerging healthcare systems and practices. Regarding research, nurses moved beyond merely using the quantitative methodology to combining qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. In practice, nurses have transitioned from the delivery of medical-based care to nursing theory-guided practice, evidence-based practice, knowledge translation and transformative practice. Some domains of nursing research and practice became progressive, while others degenerated. This paper aims to examine how different domains of nursing research and practice progress and degenerate using Imre Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programs. Lakatos differentiated scientific and pseudoscientific knowledge and coined the idea of scientific research programs. He believed that science in any discipline develops so that some programs are more progressive and others’ degenerative. The degeneration and progression of programs occur steadily and rationally and are determined based on the extent of development and programs’ potential to predict new solutions to old problems. Adopting this idea could enable nurses to critically analyse research programs in everyday knowledge development to use valid and legitimate programs for informing nursing practice.
ISSN:1466-769x
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nup.12342