Nursing Practice Vs Interpretive Nursing Paradigm

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in my opinion, the nursing paradigm is like the foundation of a building. There are two nursing paradigm; the empirical paradigm and the interpretive paradigm. The empirical paradigm is based on assumption that the knowledge development through sense observations of the existing world as well as helps in providing a structure for the testing of theory, and the comparison of interventions (Quantitative nursing research) while the interpretive paradigm facilitates the understanding of the human experience as in qualitative nursing research.

I think in nursing practice, paradigms are not fixed concepts; paradigms are real tools used in the daily practice of nursing. These two types of nursing paradigms give the validity for impacting in nursing