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Sources of practice knowledge among nurses

dc.contributor.authorEstabrooks, Carole
dc.contributor.authorRutakumwa, William
dc.contributor.authorO’Leary, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorProfetto McGrath, Joanne
dc.contributor.authorMilner, Margaret
dc.contributor.authorLevers, Merry Jo
dc.contributor.authorScott Findlay, Shannon
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-11
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-28T00:38:40Z
dc.date.available2022-05-28T00:38:40Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractSeveral studies have been published listing sources of practice knowledge used by nurses. However, the authors located no studies that asked clinicians to describe comprehensively and categorize the kinds of knowledge needed to practice or in which the researchers attempted to understand how clinicians privilege various knowledge sources. In this article, the authors report findings from two large ethnographic case studies in which sources of practice knowledge was a subsidiary theme. They draw on data from individual and card sort interviews, as well as participant observations, to identify nurses’ sources of practice knowledge. Their findings demonstrate that nurses categorize their sources of practice knowledge into four broad groupings: social interactions, experiential knowledge, documents, and a priori knowledge. The insights gained add new understanding about sources of knowledge used by nurses and challenge the disproportionate weight that proponents of the evidence-based movement ascribe to research knowledge.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/8HB
dc.identifier.citationEstabrooks, C. A., Rutamunga, W., O’Leary, K. A., Profetto-McGrath, J., Milner, M., & Scott-Findlay, S. (2005). Sources of practice knowledge among nurses. Qualitative Health Research, 15(4), 460-476. doi: 10.1177/1049732304273702
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1049732304273702
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1065
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectsources of knowledge
dc.subjectresearch utilization
dc.subjectcase study
dc.subjectethnography
dc.subjectethnoscience
dc.titleSources of practice knowledge among nursesen
dc.typeArticle

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