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(1993) Health research in practice, Dordrecht, Springer.

Phenomenological method in nursing

theory vs. reality

Bev Taylor

pp. 112-125

Since my earliest recollections of relatively mature reflective thought, I have been a person who has believed firmly in the benefits of making a strategic plan for important events in my life. Projections of likely situations and ways of approaching them have been my salvation in the immediacy of "life's little trials', so in my postgraduate student life the academic requirement to produce a research proposal outlining a method, prior to embarking on an area of study, seemed a reasonable thing to do. What I failed to recognize on the research occasion I will describe now and in many other less formal personal occasions in which I have formulated plans of action, was that although at the time it seemed the best possible avenue, I was under no obligation to remain wedded permanently to that plan.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-4497-9_8

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Taylor, B. (1993)., Phenomenological method in nursing: theory vs. reality, in D. Colquhoun & A. Kellehear (eds.), Health research in practice, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 112-125.

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