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Title: | Nursing expertise: a course of ambiguity and evolution in a concept | Contributor(s): | Hutchinson, Marie (author); Higson, Mary (author); Cleary, Michelle (author); Jackson, Debra (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1111/nin.12142 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21793 | Abstract: | In this article, we clarify and describe the nature of nursing expertise and provide a framework to guide its identification and further development. To have utility and rigour, concept-driven research and theories of practice require underlying concepts that are robust, valid and reliable. Advancing understanding of a concept requires careful attention to explicating its knowledge, metaphors and conceptual meaning. Examining the concepts and metaphors of nursing expertise, and how they have been interpreted into the nursing discourse, we aimed to synthesise definitions and similarities between concepts and elicit the defining characteristics and properties of nursing expertise. In clarifying the concept, we sought to move beyond the ambiguity that currently surrounds expertise in nursing and unravel it to make explicit the characteristics of nursing expertise from published peer-reviewed studies and structured literature synthesis. Findings indicate a lack of clarity surrounding the use of the term expertise. Traditional reliance upon intuition as a way of explaining expert performance is slowly evolving. Emerging from the analysis is a picture of expertise as the relationship between networks of contextual reasoning, understanding and practice. Striking absences in the discourse include limited explication of ethical reasoning and theorising a broader interpretation of expertise reflective of contemporary forms of nursing. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Nursing Inquiry, 23(4), p. 290-304 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1440-1800 1320-7881 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 420599 Nursing not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920210 Nursing | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200307 Nursing | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nin.12142/abstract;jsessionid=0985FC6C00F692D538C00107D29A2D78.f04t01 |
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