ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES

• Differentiates nursing from other disciplines.
• Practice - Provides guidelines of care and useful administration.
• Useful in Education.
• Provides research methodologies.
• Provides framework to guide inquiry of other theories (grief, hope, laughter, etc.).

DISADVANTAGES

• Research considered to be in a “closed circle”.
• Rarely quantifiable results - Difficult to compare to other research studies, no control group, standardized questions, etc.
• Does not utilized the nursing process/diagnoses.
• Negates the idea that each person engages in a unique lived experience.
• Not accessible to the novice nurse.
• Not applicable to acute, emergent care.