Abstract

In this chapter correlationism ‘stands for’ a non-nursing dispute that nurse researchers might benefit from being aware of. Not all nurses are researchers. However, exploring this exemplar allows more general questions to be posed about nursing’s relationship to or with ideas originating in non-nursing disciplines. While it is not my aim here to resolve the difficulties sketched, hopefully these questions will initiate further reflection and debate. Whether narrowly or broadly defined the subject is, as will become clear, complex, value laden, and pertinent to educators/nurse education.