TY - JOUR
T1 - GIS(c)
T2 - A scientific framework and methodological tool for nursing research
AU - Moss, Margaret P.
AU - Schell, Matthew C.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The purpose of this article was to bring to nursing science a theoretical framework and technology that can transport with it new ways of knowing by exploiting microperspectives and macroperspectives, both from "within the map" and globally. Nursing continues to find its voice, but it also must lend its voice to the forming of Geographic Information Systems and Science in a pan-disciplinary partnership with geography, cartography, sociology, public health, and information technology. It is proposed that nursing take advantage of the latest databases that hold "person" information and layer these over geographical maps holding "environment" and "health" information as a new way of seeing and applying the metaparadigms of nursing. By using Geographic Information Systems for understanding spatial, numeric, health, and population relationships as they relate to nursing practice, research, and teaching, nursing science will continue to evolve at a speed needed to be effective in the new millennia.
AB - The purpose of this article was to bring to nursing science a theoretical framework and technology that can transport with it new ways of knowing by exploiting microperspectives and macroperspectives, both from "within the map" and globally. Nursing continues to find its voice, but it also must lend its voice to the forming of Geographic Information Systems and Science in a pan-disciplinary partnership with geography, cartography, sociology, public health, and information technology. It is proposed that nursing take advantage of the latest databases that hold "person" information and layer these over geographical maps holding "environment" and "health" information as a new way of seeing and applying the metaparadigms of nursing. By using Geographic Information Systems for understanding spatial, numeric, health, and population relationships as they relate to nursing practice, research, and teaching, nursing science will continue to evolve at a speed needed to be effective in the new millennia.
KW - Geographical Information Systems
KW - GIS
KW - Mapping
KW - Methods
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U2 - 10.1097/00012272-200404000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00012272-200404000-00008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15206686
AN - SCOPUS:3142732281
SN - 0161-9268
VL - 27
SP - 150
EP - 159
JO - Advances in Nursing Science
JF - Advances in Nursing Science
IS - 2
ER -
