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Embracing Paradigmatic Diversity in Nursing: The Stadium Model in Nursing
Ahmad M Deeb1, Crystal Vaughan, Rebecca Puddester
1Author Affiliations: Faculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada (Mr Deeb and Mss Vaughan, Puddester, and Curnew); and Centre for Nursing Studies, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada (Ms Curnew).
Abstract:
Arguably, the quest for a central, unifying paradigm in nursing has distracted from moving disciplinary knowledge forward in an accessible, meaningful manner. In this discursive philosophical article, we uphold that multiparadigmatic research teams and diverse approaches inform effective nursing praxis. We provide an overview of our worldviews (dialectical pluralism, critical realism, humanism, and pragmatism) and their philosophical assumptions and describe how they are commensurate with nursing. We present the Stadium Model in Nursing as a metaphor to illustrate how various worldviews function like different sections of a stadium to offer diverse, yet important vantages of our nursing phenomena of interest.
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