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Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim, Sung, Shin, Shin, Lee, and Jeong: Trends of Nursing Science Inquiry in Doctoral Dissertations
Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2004; 34(2): 315-323.

Published online: 28 March 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2004.34.2.315

Trends of Nursing Science Inquiry in Doctoral Dissertations

Eui Sook Kim1, Gwang Suk Kim2, Dae Ran Kim3, Eun Jeong Kim4, Kyung Mi Sung5, Hae Kung Shin6, Hyun Sook Shin7, Young Ja Lee8, Seok Hee Jeong9

1Yonsei University College of Nursing, Korea.

2The University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing, USA.

3Department of Physiology, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea.

4College of Medicine, Pochon CHA University, Korea.

5The University of Pittsburg, College of Nursing, USA.

6Severance New Hospital Opening preparation Committee, Korea.

7The University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing, USA.

8Education and Publicity Dept., Korean Association of Smoking and Health, Korea.

9QI department, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Korea.

euisook906@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr

Copyright © 2004 Korean Society of Nursing Science

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to identify the theoretical characteristics and direction of inquiry in the discipline of nursing by analyzing doctoral dissertations.

Method

The materials used in this study were 277 doctoral dissertations from five universities in Korea. The framework for the study was derived from Kim's(1993) alternative linkage among philosophy, theory, and method in nursing science.

Result

Of the 277 dissertations it was found that there were 13 types of linkages out of a possible 54 types. Most of the dissertations (128 of 277) were done within the linkage of realism/etic/quantitative/explanatory knowledge type. Of the 218 dissertations within scientific realism, 42 were within relativism, and 17 within practicism. There were 134 dissertations of the explanatory knowledge type, 112 descriptive ones, and 31 prescriptive ones. Studies done within the etic quantitative methodology included 209 dissertations and within the emic perspective, 43 with qualitative methodology, and 7 with quantitative.

Conclusion

The results show that it is necessary to develop more alternative linkages for nursing practice and this will lead to expanding nursing knowledge.

Keywords: Nursing philosophy, Knowledge type, Methodology, Doctoral dissertation

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