Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm and Its Implications for Social Work Research

Kaushik, Vibha; Walsh, Christine A.

doi:10.3390/socsci8090255

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“…This approach is often used where there is no clear answer to a problem. It acknowledges multiple realities to a phenomenon, based upon a person's beliefs, experience and background, the meaning for which is dependent on the context within which research is analysed (Kaushik & Walsh, 2019). In this case, the context is the work environment within which nurses are having to ration care.…”

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Nurses’ views on workload, care rationing and work environments

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Aims The article examines nurses’ experiences to institutionally enforced choices they must make regarding what patient care will be left undone. Cognitive dissonance theory is used to discuss how missed care is reconciled with the nurses’ sense of professionalism and feelings of compassion. Background Research into missed nursing care and care rationing is increasing, with an awareness that it impacts on nurses’ coping ability. Methods In‐depth video and telephone interviews were conducted with four experienced nurses who were asked to describe how they made choices regarding required patient care and how they managed care under workload pressures. Results Thematic analysis of interview narratives revealed four key themes describing the experiences of nurses managing their work: compromising care; incongruity between professional standards and organisational resources; emotional exhaustion; and depersonalization. Conclusions Nurses expressed concerns that their professional values regarding patient care are being lost in a quest to achieve financial targets. It raises questions regarding ethical and psychological dilemmas created for workers by work intensification. Implications for Nursing Management Financial effectiveness negatively impacts on nurses’ emotional and clinical well‐being cannot be easily dismissed, given that cognitive dissonance arises from attempting to provide quality care of patients whilst meeting organisational financial targets.

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Nurses’ views on workload, care rationing and work environments

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“…The point is that, obviously, space and time themselves are not methods -they are named in such a way for short. They become methods, when a human establishes a way of their use for developing paradigms [15], way of solving a human problem [16,17].…”

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Philosophical Bases of Improvement of Paradigm Development Methodologies

Dmytriiev

Babailov

Levchenko

2020

EUREKA: Social and Humanities

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The analysis of modern literary sources shows that the paradigms of the main areas of human activity were developed in 2013-18, using only time-based methods. However, in 2019, the development of paradigms of mechanics showed that they depend not on time, but only on space. Therefore, there arose a problem: when, where and how to apply the space-based method and the time-based method. This is a problem of improving the methodology for developing paradigms – global strategies, strategies of the behavior of mankind as a whole in a specific area of activity. The analysis of recent studies and publications indicates that this problem has not even been raised in world literature and research practice. In the coming new era, the depletion of basic natural resources of the planet and the aggravation of the need to develop a new, third generation of paradigms will only urge the importance of solving this problem. Therefore, the aim of the research is to improve the methodology for developing paradigms. For this purpose, the following tasks are solved: – the analysis of the level of knowledge about space, time and matter is carried out; – the essence and content of space, time and matter is determined; – the nature of the relationship between the space- and time-based methods is determined; – the nature of the connection of space- and time-based methods with matter is established; – a brief description of the results obtained is given. Research methods: review of literary sources; historical and logical method; analog method; 2C70; VEO; Babailov’s method. Results: the matter-based methodology as the only methodology for the development of paradigms is created. Scientific novelty: the composition and sequence of the application of methods for the development of paradigms – space- and time-based methods and the matter-based methodology are streamlined. Practical relevance: the implementation of the matter-based methodology in the practice of developing paradigms will result in improving the methodology of strategic planning in an enterprise, which in turn will increase the efficiency of its management and production.

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“…Pragmatism "emphasises that all aspects of research inherently involve decisions about which goals are most meaningful and which methods are most appropriate" (Morgan, 2014(Morgan, , p. 1050. Pragmatism states that there is an objective reality but that this can only be encountered through human experience and inquiry (Kaushik and Walsh, 2019;Morgan 2014) and on the scale or continuum of mode of inquiry, with deductivism and postpositivism on one end, and inductivism and constructivism on the other, pragmatism is located in the middle (Kaushik and Walsh, 2019). Instead of being "trapped" in either of these dichotomous corners, pragmatism accepts that there are multiple realities and research should apply the methodological approach best suited for the particular research problem at hand (Feilzer, 2010;Kaushik and Walsh, 2019).…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pragmatism states that there is an objective reality but that this can only be encountered through human experience and inquiry (Kaushik and Walsh, 2019;Morgan 2014) and on the scale or continuum of mode of inquiry, with deductivism and postpositivism on one end, and inductivism and constructivism on the other, pragmatism is located in the middle (Kaushik and Walsh, 2019). Instead of being "trapped" in either of these dichotomous corners, pragmatism accepts that there are multiple realities and research should apply the methodological approach best suited for the particular research problem at hand (Feilzer, 2010;Kaushik and Walsh, 2019). For this reason, pragmatism is often connected to mixed-methods research, but it is not limited to any particular method (or mix of methods), nor does it exclude any other (Feilzer, 2010).…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The research within this thesis has been conducted, for the most part, through a qualitative approach. A common research orientation in qualitative research is the interpretive, rooted in constructivism (Kaushik and Walsh, 2019), in which the research aims to develop an understanding based on the subjective meanings of the studied actors or persons (Schwandt and Gates, 2018). Or, as put by Kakkuri-Knuuttila et al (2008, p. 268): "the act of interpretation,…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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