What nursing knowledge is needed to develop nursing practice?

Years ago, a nurse I admired was kidding me about graduate school. What was a nursing diagnosis (ND), and why did we need them? Wasn’t it enough to know that the infant had respiratory distress syndrome? Why add in this other layer of nonsense? Why spend my time thinking about theory and other ridic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tracy Heather Herdman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Goias 2011-06-01
Series:Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem
Online Access:https://www.revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/14773