Utilizing all opportunities in clinical practice
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Clinical nurse specialists should take advantage of opportunities for scholarship that may occur during clinical work. The histories of a cardiac telemetry unit and an epilepsy diagnostic unit illustrate this point. In the first case, the clinical nurse specialist did an excellent job developing critical thinking skills in novice nurses. However, in neither case were nurses encouraged to consider the implications of patient feedback and behavior or their own observations of commonalities or patterns.
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
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The scholarship of a practice discipline
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All nurses should be scholars. This becomes possible when the definition of scholarship is broadened beyond narrow concepts of academic research. Scholarship also encompasses integrating knowledge, teaching, and applying knowledge to real world problems. In this context nursing practice can incorporate scholarship. A nurse-scholar becomes a nurse who uses knowledge to advance nursing practice with the goal of improving the health and well-being of others.
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
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Clinical practice as scholarship
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The concept of scholarship must be broadened beyond the narrow limits of research, which would enable it to encompass clinical practice. In addition to discovery through research, scholarship also includes synthesis of information, teaching, and research application. This broader concept would include clinical practice. Moreover, the standards to evaluate scholarship quality equally well apply to clinical practice.
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
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