Transforming Practice Knowledge into Nursing Knowledge—A Revisionist Analysis of Peplau |
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| Authors: | Pamela G Reed |
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| Institution: | Pamela G. Reed, RN, PhD, FAAN, Beta Mu;, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at The University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, AZ. |
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| Abstract: | Nursing practice typically has been viewed as applying knowledge. However, currently, there is increasing awareness that nursing practice is also a process of knowledge development. Still, research and practice are not always connected. Analysis of Peplau's works illuminates a scholarship of nursing practice that is relevant today. This paper focuses on a specific strategy and philosophic perspective, as derived from Peplau, for integrating nursing practice more fully into today's knowledge development. Emphasis is on the need for nursing practice-based theory, as well as nursing theory-based practice. |
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| Keywords: | theory development knowledge development H E Peplau philosophy (nursing) |
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