title: The language of 'experience' in nursing research.
abstract: This paper is an analysis of how the signifier 'experience' is used in nursing research. We identify a set of issues we believe accompany the use of experience but are rarely addressed. These issues are embedded in a spectrum that includes ontological commitments, visions of the person/self and its relation to 'society', understandings of research methodology and the politics of nursing. We argue that a poststructuralist understanding of the language of experience in research opens up additional ways to analyze the relationship between the conduct of nursing research and cultural/political commitments.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. dgallen@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cloyes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D004644:Emotions; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016294:Models, Nursing; D033262:Narration; D017008:Negotiating; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011057:Politics; D033302:Postmodernism; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000523:psychology; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012660:Semantics