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1Professor, Director of PhD Program, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
Abstract:
All phenomenological research, including descriptive phenomenological methods, are theory based. The knowledge in a discipline is built using discipline-specific methods. The purpose of this article is to develop and describe the processes of a mode of inquiry specific to caring in nursing theories housed within the unitary caring paradigm. Morgan's practical framework examining ontological-epistemological-methodological linkages was used to develop the unitary-caring hermeneutic phenomenological research method The method is specific to conducting hermeneutic phenomenological research within Watson's unitary caring science and Smith's theory of unitary caring. The method includes a process of linking and interpreting themes generated from the textual analysis of participant descriptions of the caring phenomena to concepts in the specific unitary caring theory that informs the researcher's a priori theoretical perspective to develop a theoretical understanding of the experience and contribute to the development of unitary caring nursing science.
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