title: Philosophical underpinnings of an emergent methodology for nursing as caring inquiry.
abstract: Two research approaches congruent with the theory of nursing as caring are described: group interpretive phenomenology and nursing as caring research as praxis. The idea of praxis and the theory of communicative action are explored for congruence as philosophical underpinnings of a possible eventual methodology for developing knowledge of nursing as caring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Graduate Nursing, Alcorn State University, Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
authors.forename: Savina O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Schoenhofer
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*