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Curology: A Basic Science Related to Nursing
Author(s) -
Vredevoe Donna L.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1984.tb01395.x
Subject(s) - nursing science , nursing care , focus (optics) , nursing research , psychology , nursing , computer science , medicine , optics , physics
Basic sciences focus on specific types of variables. At present nursing must draw from a number of sciences to create the variables and measurements for research. It is proposed that the cluster of variables needed to advance nursing research is so unique that a new basic science should be developed to study the integration of the variables prior to application in studies of patient care. Curology would be that science. Nursing is thus unusual among professions in that it must generate its own basic science as well as applied science. This is a result of the unusual clusters of interacting variables that come into play in the science of care . This paper is intended to provide a framework for thought about a basic science of variables related to patient care. Some ideas are suggested as beginning points for future development .