Theory and Reseach

caffeinism · Nov 29, 2004

Devil's advocate here, but medicine is built around evidence-based practice. Nurse theorists try to encorporate the environment, the person, society, and health, and that requires alot more than evidence-based research studies and practice.

I guess until I take some BSN classes or do some reading I must not have a total grasp as to what Nurse Theorists are. But isn't research/theory basically figuring out what works, what doesn't, and why we do something a cetain way. In essence improving the standing of nursing interventions in a medical field that is dominated by science and technology.

The mimicking of medicine is one reason we have a hard time defining ourselves as a separate profession. I am not suggesting that there is no place in nursing for evidence-based practice, I'm suggesting that it is not always the best way to nurse

Interesting idea, I was talking to a medical student from Maylasia, and she commented in that doctors appear to have a greater degree of distance from the patient than in her native country. It would be interesting to see how other countries have developed the separation between the two professions and to what degree. As our own medical culture and technology change I wonder what the future holds.