Personal documents and nursing theory development
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Advances in Nursing Science
- Vol. 8 (3) , 50-57
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00012272-198604000-00007
Abstract
Personal documents, notably autobiographical accounts, supply a compelling realm of phenomenological data for nursing theory, providing insight and understanding into the nonnormative nature of health and health-related experience. Personal documents occasion a discussion of empathic understanding as an analytical component of human science and illness as an occasion of heightened personal awareness. Triangulation research strategies are advocated as a means of incorporating personal experience data in nursing research.Keywords
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