Abstract

The study was an exploration of the nature of nursing practice with families with young children in complex circumstances. The purpose was to further explicate the health patterning process of nursing partnership through praxis research. The theory of health as expanding consciousness was a priori, where consciousness refers to the informational capacity of the partnership between participants. Expressing a unitary transformative paradigm, a hermeneutic dialectic methodology was used. The form of research took the form of practice and the researcher was as if practitioner.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 9728968; ProQuest document ID: 304410487. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Merian C. Litchfield, PhD

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Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Other

Keywords:

Families with Young Children, Family Systems, Community Nursing

Advisor

Margaret A. Newman

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Minnesota

Degree Year

1997

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2020-01-10

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