Research with/in nursing: 'Troubling' the field

Kim Walker
Nursing (Applied Research), St Vincent's Private Hospital, Darlinghurst; Nursing Research Institute, St Vincent's and Mater Health Sydney; Australian Catholic University, Sydney NSW

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Abstract

Nursing and research coexist in a 'troubled' relationship. The culture of nursing and the discourses of research together generate tensions and conflicts which often work to constrain nurses' attempts to engage in research activity.

In this paper I attempt to expose possible reasons why this might be so. Drawing on critical feminist post-structuralist theories and recent empirical research with clinical nurses some of the 'challenges' to thinking and doing research in nursing are given voice and brought to critical expression.

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Keywords

feminism, culture, research


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