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. 1991 Winter;23(4):245-8.
doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1991.tb00680.x.

Story as link between nursing practice, ontology, epistemology

A Boykin, S O Schoenhofer

Story as link between nursing practice, ontology, epistemology

A Boykin et al. Image J Nurs Sch. 1991 Winter.

Abstract

This paper proposes the use of story as a method of organizing and communicating nursing knowledge which assures groundedness in the ontology of nursing. The nursing situation is viewed as the unit of nursing knowledge, and the nursing story is the re-creation or representation of that situation.

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