Brown Janet Witucki
The University of Tennessee College of Nursing, USA.
Nurs Sci Q. 2011 Jul;24(3):197-201. doi: 10.1177/0894318411409428.
Margaret Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness provides an excellent nursing perspective for nursing grounded theory research studies. Application of this nursing theory to grounded theory research provides a unitary-transformative paradigm perspective to the sociological underpinnings of grounded theory methodology. The fit between this particular nursing theory and grounded theory methodology is apparent when purpose, timing, process, and health outcomes of the two are compared. In this column, the theory of health as expanding consciousness is described and the theory's research as praxis methodology is compared to grounded theory methodology. This is followed by a description of how the theory of health as expanding consciousness can be utilized as a perspective for nursing grounded theory research.
玛格丽特·纽曼的健康即意识扩展理论为护理扎根理论研究提供了一个极佳的护理视角。将这一护理理论应用于扎根理论研究，为扎根理论方法的社会学基础提供了一种整体变革性的范式视角。当比较这两种理论的目的、时机、过程和健康结果时，这一特定护理理论与扎根理论方法之间的契合度就显而易见了。在本专栏中，将描述健康即意识扩展理论，并将该理论的研究即实践方法与扎根理论方法进行比较。接下来将描述如何将健康即意识扩展理论用作护理扎根理论研究的一个视角。
