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Nursing: the science and the practice. 1993

H H Abu-Saad

Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Department of Nursing Science, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

A brief outline of the significant developments of the nursing profession is given. This is followed by a description of the domain of nursing and the nature of the phenomenon studied by nurse scientists. Excellence in science and its importance in developing nursing's body of knowledge is discussed and strategies are given on how to enhance it. The paper ends by analyzing the contributions that nursing science has made on the developments in nursing research, nursing education, nursing administration and nursing practice. Strategies which the author sees as enhancing the relationship between the science and the practice of nursing are further elaborated and discussed. The author ends with a plea that more attention should be paid at present to the substance of the nursing phenomenon studied.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009729	Nursing	The field of nursing care concerned with the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health.	Nursings
D009745	Nursing, Supervisory	Administration of nursing services for one or more clinical units.	Charge Nurses,Head Nurses,Nurses, Head,Supervisory Nursing,Charge Nurse,Head Nurse,Nurse, Charge,Nurse, Head,Nurses, Charge
D011364	Professional Practice	The use of one's knowledge in a particular profession. It includes, in the case of the field of biomedicine, professional activities related to health care and the actual performance of the duties related to the provision of health care.	Practice, Professional,Practices, Professional,Professional Practices
D004506	Education, Nursing	Use for general articles concerning nursing education.	Nursing Education,Educations, Nursing,Nursing Educations
D012586	Science	The study of natural phenomena by observation, measurement, and experimentation.	Sciences
D015399	Nursing Research	Research carried out by nurses, generally in clinical settings, in the areas of clinical practice, evaluation, nursing education, nursing administration, and methodology.	Research, Nursing
D016294	Models, Nursing	Theoretical models simulating behavior or activities in nursing, including nursing care, management and economics, theory, assessment, research, and education. Some examples of these models include Orem Self-Care Model, Roy Adaptation Model, and Rogers Life Process Model.	Nursing Models,Model, Nursing,Nursing Model,Orem Self-Care Model,Model, Orem Self-Care,Models, Orem Self-Care,Orem Self Care Model,Orem Self-Care Models,Self-Care Model, Orem,Self-Care Models, Orem