Chiang Li-Chi, Liao Mei-Nan
School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, ROC.
Administration Center of Business Management Department, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, and Associate Professor, School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC.
Hu Li Za Zhi. 2017 Feb;64(1):25-31. doi: 10.6224/JN.64.1.25.
As clinical scientists on the interdisciplinary healthcare team, nurses use the art and science of current nursing knowledge to provide evidence-based healthcare to each patient and his/her family. Nurses not only comprise the largest contingent of medical personnel and provide 24-hour patient care but are also professional scientists that develop unique nursing knowledge through reflective practice. Five strategies for expanding the body of current evidence-based nursing scientific knowledge include: (1) reflecting empirically on the practice-service domain, (2) developing nursing knowledge using rigorous methodology, (3) emancipating nursing knowledge using innovative transformation, (4) using collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare that is based in patient-centered care, and (5) initiating innovative transformation in nursing education. Nurses are critical healthcare providers that make important contributions to today's healthcare system. Nursing scientists provide frontline, evidence-based transforming care that deserves to be respected and valued on an equal basis with the care and services that are provided by other medical personnel.
