William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Department of Health Switzerland, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
Nurs Philos. 2020 Apr;21(2):e12246. doi: 10.1111/nup.12246. Epub 2019 May 2.
Confusion remains about the concept "nursing science." Definitions vary, depending on country, context and setting. Even among nurse scholars and scientists there is disagreement about the content and boundaries of nursing science. There is an urgent need for an acceptable definition that can guide nursing knowledge development, education, and practice. In this article, we highlight the problems for the profession of this sort of conceptual ambiguity, arguing that it is an ethical responsibility for the profession to gain clarity about the meaning and apt focus of our knowledge development initiatives. We parse out nursing and science as separate concepts and synthesize from this analysis a simple yet comprehensive definition of nursing science. We propose that this definition is capable of unifying ongoing nursing endeavors and should serve as the basis for evaluating nursing's knowledge development and educational initiatives.
关于“护理科学”这一概念仍存在困惑。定义因国家、背景和环境而异。即使在护士学者和科学家之间，对于护理科学的内容和边界也存在分歧。迫切需要一个可以指导护理知识发展、教育和实践的可接受定义。在本文中，我们强调了这种概念模糊性对护理专业的问题，认为澄清我们知识发展计划的意义和适当重点是该专业的道德责任。我们将护理和科学作为独立的概念进行解析，并从分析中综合出护理科学的简单而全面的定义。我们提出这个定义能够统一正在进行的护理工作，并应作为评估护理知识发展和教育计划的基础。
