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Story as Link Between Nursing Practice, Ontology, Epistemology
Author(s) -
Boykin Anne,
Schoenhofer Savina O.
Publication year - 1991
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.1547-5069.1991.tb00680.x
Subject(s) - ontology , link (geometry) , nursing practice , epistemology , nursing , data science , psychology , computer science , medicine , philosophy , computer network
This paper proposes the use of story as a method of organizing and Communicating nursing knowledge which assures groundedness in the ontology of nursing. The nursing situation is viewed as the unit of nursing knowledge, and the nursing story is the re‐creation or representation of that situation.