Phenomenological research in Nursing. An approximation to the basic principles of utility for nurses
Section: TEACHING TO LEARN
Authors
Epifanio Fernández Collado
Position
Doctor en Enfermería. Catedrático de Universidad de Enfermería, Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Contact email: epifanio.fernández@uem.es
Abstract
Phenomenology emerges as a philosophical movement that is employed by social and human sciences as a methodological perspective in interpretative research. This methodological trend, along with the established theory and ethnography, are the most representative trends in qualitative nursing scientific production. The contributions of nursing researchers who use phenomenology as a methodological approach demonstrate the importance of using interpretative models that are based on the human condition and the idea that the best way to understand other human beings is through an understanding of experiential reality, of what has been lived through. To achieve this, descriptions or interpretations of daily human experiences are used in an attempt to discover the “essence”, the “essential structures”, of experienced phenomena as a source of qualitative tests. The aim of this article, which compiles applied concepts in phenomenology, is to provide some useful principles (as learning for beginners in the subject) for “new students”, “future researchers”, who are interested in phenomenology in nursing. Fundamental ideas in phenomenology, such as a philosophical approach, as an alternative research methodology.
Keywords:
nursing; phenomenologyresearch
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