2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2005.00259.x
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The language of ‘experience’ in nursing research

Abstract: This paper is an analysis of how the signifier 'experience' is used in nursing research. We identify a set of issues we believe accompany the use of experience but are rarely addressed. These issues are embedded in a spectrum that includes ontological commitments, visions of the person/self and its relation to 'society', understandings of research methodology and the politics of nursing. We argue that a poststructuralist understanding of the language of experience in research opens up additional ways to analyz… Show more

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“…We do not wish to position ourselves as neutral instruments through which nurses’ discursive practices can be ‘discovered’. Along with Allen and Cloyes (2005), we argue that as investigators we actively contribute to the production of knowledge. We thus regard our results as one among other possibilities of understanding the complex interplay of practices and discourses in this particular setting.…”
Section: Final Remarksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We do not wish to position ourselves as neutral instruments through which nurses’ discursive practices can be ‘discovered’. Along with Allen and Cloyes (2005), we argue that as investigators we actively contribute to the production of knowledge. We thus regard our results as one among other possibilities of understanding the complex interplay of practices and discourses in this particular setting.…”
Section: Final Remarksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In analyzing the data, particularly the interview transcripts, I draw from critical and feminist qualitative methodological approaches that allow for reflexivity and constant comparison (i.e. Allen and Cloyes 2005;Emerson et al 1995;Fonow and Cook 2005;Smith 2002;Stanley and Wise 1990;Strauss and Corbin 1990;Turnbull 2000). This approach allows for themes to emerge from the data, thus creating theory from the themes and categories that surface.…”
Section: Setting the Scenementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Equally, one must be cautious about participants' ability to differentiate between their own values and the social performance elicited by the interview process itself. 26 My professional acquaintance with three of the four participants might have additionally influenced the conversations in unknown ways. The selection of participants was limited to nursing education leaders in authorized positions, and did not include emergent leaders among faculty members or general nurses.…”
Section: Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 99%