Defining the expert ICU nurse

Authors: Christensen, M. and Hewitt-Taylor, J.

Journal: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volume: 22

Issue: 5

Pages: 301-307

ISSN: 0964-3397

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003

Abstract:

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. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Defining the expert ICU nurse.

Authors: Christensen, M. and Hewitt-Taylor, J.

Journal: Intensive Crit Care Nurs

Volume: 22

Issue: 5

Pages: 301-307

ISSN: 0964-3397

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003

Abstract:

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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Defining the expert ICU nurse

Authors: Christensen, M. and Hewitt-Taylor, J.

Journal: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volume: 22

Pages: 301-307

ISSN: 0964-3397

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003

Abstract:

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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Defining the expert ICU nurse.

Authors: Christensen, M. and Hewitt-Taylor, J.

Journal: Intensive & critical care nursing

Volume: 22

Issue: 5

Pages: 301-307

eISSN: 1532-4036

ISSN: 0964-3397

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.07.003

Abstract:

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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