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Raising standards of clinical practice — the fundamental issue of effective nursing practice
Author(s) -
Kitson Alison L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1987.tb01338.x
Subject(s) - proposition , raising (metalworking) , nursing , nursing practice , process (computing) , position (finance) , clinical practice , test (biology) , engineering ethics , medicine , psychology , epistemology , computer science , business , paleontology , philosophy , finance , engineering , biology , operating system , geometry , mathematics
The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners. Rather than deny them, nurses have to know how to test and thus legitimize them. Such a validation process demands more clinically based nursing research projects and the proliferation of arrangements such as clinical nursing practice units. It is further argued that by linking the intuitive and rational aspects of nursing in this way the profession is in a better position not only to fulfil its societal obligations but also to build up its own knowledge and skills.