Misusing phenomenology in nursing research: identifying the issues
Nurse ResearcherPublished 1 April 1999
Veronica Corben
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Nursing has been slow to develop its own body of research, perhaps because of the inability to define what nursing is, and there has been a move towards nursing as an art as a science, resulting in a more humanistic approach to research.
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Veronica Corben looks at some of the pitfalls for researcher and reader in phenomenological research.
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MedicineHealth ProfessionsNursing
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