Defining the expert ICU nurse
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01/10/2006
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| Resumo |
This paper explores the concept of expertise in intensive care nursing practice from the perspective of its relationship to the current driving forces in healthcare. It discusses the potential barriers to acceptance of nursing expertise in a climate in which quantification of value and cost containment run high on agendas. It argues that nursing expertise which focuses on the provision of individualised, holistic care and which is based largely on intuitive decision-making cannot and should not be reduced to being articulated in positivist terms. The principles of abduction or fuzzy logic, derived from computer science, may be useful in assisting nurses to explain in terms, which others can comprehend, the value of nursing expertise. |
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Elsevier |
| Relação |
DOI:10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003 Christensen, Martin & Hewitt-Taylor, Jaqui (2006) Defining the expert ICU nurse. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 22(5), pp. 301-307. |
| Direitos |
Copyright 2005 Elsevier Ltd. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, [VOL 22, ISSUE 5, (2006)] DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003 |
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Faculty of Health; School of Nursing |
| Palavras-Chave | #111003 Clinical Nursing - Secondary (Acute Care) #Expertise #Intuition #Holism |
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Journal Article |
