Postpositivist critical realism: philosophy, methodology and method for nursing research.

CONCLUSION: Postpositivism negotiates some of the conflict and differences between positivism and interpretivism. It offers a variety of methodological choices for nurses who do not wish to align themselves only with facts, cause and effect, proving hypotheses, or the perspectives and experiences of participants. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Researchers can use Bhaskar's critical realist principles to study complex and open systems, such as those of teams and organisations, public health interventions, and social situations, but particularly the complexities of nursing practice, service delivery and service design. PMID: 31468918 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Nurse Researcher - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Nurse Res Source Type: research