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A Lifeworld Paradigm for Nursing Research

Karin Dahlberg, Ph.D

Bora's University College of Health Sciences

Nancy Drew, Ph.D

Saint Joseph College

This article is a companion to an earlier article entitled "Challenging a Reductionistic Paradigm as a Foundation for Nursing," which appeared in the December 1995 issue of the Journal of Holistic Nursing. The authors discuss how five concepts—encounter, openness, immediacy, uniqueness, and meaning—which constitute their philosophy for nursing practice, also comprise a foundation for human sciences research. In the first article, encounter was presented as the core concept for practice. In the present work, openness is the central idea in a lifeworld research paradigm, with encounter, immediacy, uniqueness, and meaning as supporting concepts. Openness is explicated with the notions of open-mindedness, open-heartedness, phenomenological questioning, and preunderstanding. A lifeworld paradigm for research is based on phenomenological philosophy and the understanding that the conduct of research is guided by the researcher's openness to the phenomena of the everyday world.

Journal of Holistic Nursing, Vol. 15, No. 3, 303-317 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/089801019701500309
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