Nursing conceptualizations of research and practice

Despite the fact that computer use in health care and nursing is burgeoning, nurses often find that they have inadequate tools with which to manage information about complex phenomena. Family is one such complex phenomenon of interest to nurses. Commonly-used computer tools for managing information...

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Published in:Nursing outlook 2009, Vol.57 (1), p.42-49
Main Authors: Peace, Jane, Lutz, Kristin F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Collaboration
Conceptualization
Documentation
Family
Family Nursing - organization & administration
Health care
Health informatics
Humans
Medical History Taking
Medical Records Systems, Computerized - organization & administration
Models, Nursing
Nurse's Role
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Assessment - organization & administration
Nursing Informatics - organization & administration
Nursing Records
Nursing Research - organization & administration
Pedigree
Professional knowledge
Professional practices
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Summary:Despite the fact that computer use in health care and nursing is burgeoning, nurses often find that they have inadequate tools with which to manage information about complex phenomena. Family is one such complex phenomenon of interest to nurses. Commonly-used computer tools for managing information about families may not be congruent with the ways that individuals define their families and may not be consistent with nursing conceptualization of families as dynamic groups not necessarily limited to biologically related individuals. Building nursing knowledge on incongruent conceptualizations will result in inaccurate knowledge. Communication and collaboration between nurse researchers, clinicians, and nursing informatics researchers are needed in order to produce tools that are consistent with nursing conceptualization and that will support nursing research and practice.
ISSN:0029-6554
1528-3968
DOI:10.1016/j.outlook.2008.07.003