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Nursing and Medicine: Complementary Modes of Thought and Action
Author(s) -
Pridham Karen F.,
Hansen M. F.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1985.tb00703.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , nursing process , nursing , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , health care , nursing practice , process (computing) , medicine , psychology , computer science , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , biology , programming language , economic growth , operating system
This paper explores collaborative practice by examining the modes of thought and action that nursing and medicine use in dinical problem solving. The characteristics that define and differentiate nursing and medicine establish the perspectives of the professions, and these perspectives contribute to and limit the two different ways of interpreting reality. In collaborative practice, the set of problems defined by a specific client and by each discipline becomes part of the context of clinical problem solving for both nurses and physicians. Means are suggested to clarify the process of nursing assessment or diagnosis and its relationship to corresponding processes in medicine. Such analysis helps to define the contributions that nursing makes to health care.