Evidence, virulence, and the disappearance of nursing knowledge: A critique of the evidence-based dogma

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 95-102

  Holmes, Dave ^a   Perron, Amélie ^a   O'Byrne, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critique; Disappearance; Epistemology; Evidence; Exclusion; Knowledge; Nursing; Philosophy; Postmodernism; Truth

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; HEALTH CARE; NURSING AS A PROFESSION; POLITICS; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VIRULENCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POLITICS; POSTMODERNISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; THINKING;

EID: 33748575237     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2006.00058.x     Document Type: Review

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