Types of nursing knowledge used to guide care of hospitalized patients

Title. Types of nursing knowledge used to guide care of hospitalized patients. Aim. This paper is a report of a study to identify the types of nursing knowledge used to guide care of hospitalized patients. Background. The history of nursing knowledge is discerned in three distinct moments. The first historical moment conceives nursing knowledge as the acquisition of a set of descriptive rules, the second as the development of dualist explanatory...