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Unitary appreciative inquiry.

W R Cowling1

  • 1School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.

ANS. Advances in Nursing Science
|June 8, 2001
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Unitary appreciative inquiry offers a holistic approach to understanding human life, valuing unique experiences often missed by diagnostic methods. This nursing science inquiry emphasizes participatory and transformative qualities for knowledge development.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing Science
  • Humanistic Inquiry

Background:

  • Current research methods often overlook the wholeness and uniqueness of human life.
  • A need exists for inquiry that fully accounts for subjective human experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Unitary Appreciative Inquiry (UAI) as a distinct orientation and process.
  • To explicate the participatory, synoptic, and transformative qualities of UAI.
  • To examine UAI within the context of nursing knowledge development and its critical dimensions.

Main Methods:

  • Describing UAI as an approach rooted in the science of unitary human beings.
  • Analyzing UAI's alignment with key dialectics in nursing knowledge (e.g., general/particular, theory/action).
  • Evaluating UAI's legitimacy and credibility using four quality standards.

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Main Results:

  • UAI provides a framework for illuminating the essence of human life.
  • The process emphasizes participation, synthesis, and transformation.
  • UAI addresses critical dimensions of nursing knowledge, including aesthetics, empirics, and emancipation.

Conclusions:

  • Unitary Appreciative Inquiry is a valid and valuable approach for advancing nursing science and practice.
  • UAI offers a complementary perspective to diagnostic methods, enhancing the depth of humanistic inquiry.
  • The study posits four quality standards for assessing the worthiness of UAI research.