Practicing nurses perspectives of clinical scholarship: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing

Debra Jackson¹  Judy Mannix³  Lesley Wilkes² 

[1] Faculty of Health, Associate Head, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Development, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, 2007, Broadway, NSW, Australia;Family and Community Health Research Group (FaCH), School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney and Conjoint Appointment with Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Nepean Hospital, PO Box 63, 2751, Penrith, NSW, Australia;School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, 2751, Penrith, NSW, Australia

关键词: Practicing nurses;    Research;    Nursing;    Clinical scholarship;   

Others  :  1091638
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6955-12-21

 received in 2013-02-17, accepted in 2013-09-16,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

There is a scarcity of research published on clinical scholarship. Much of the conceptualisation has been conducted in the academy. Nurse academics espouse that the practice of nursing must be built within a framework of clinical scholarship. A key concept of clinical scholarship emerging from discussions in the literature is that it is an essential component of enabling evidence–based nursing and the development of best practice standards to provide for the needs of patients/clients. However, there is no comprehensive definition of clinical scholarship from the practicing nurses. The aim of this study was to contribute to this definitional discussion on the nature of clinical scholarship in nursing.

Methods

Naturalistic inquiry informed the method. Using an interpretative approach 18 practicing nurses from Australia, Canada and England were interviewed using a semi-structured format. The audio-taped interviews were transcribed and the text coded for emerging themes. The themes were sorted into categories and the components of clinical scholarship described by the participants compared to the scholarship framework of Boyer [JHEOE 7:5-18, 2010].

Results

Clinical scholarship is difficult to conceptualise. Two of the essential elements of clinical scholarship are vision and passion. The other components of clinical scholarship were building and disseminating nursing knowledge, sharing knowledge, linking academic research to practice and doing practice-based research.

Conclusion

Academic scholarship dominated the discourse in nursing. However, in order for nursing to develop and to impact on health care, clinical scholarship needs to be explored and theorised. Nurse educators, hospital-based researchers and health organisations need to work together with academics to achieve this goal.

Frameworks of scholarship conceptualised by nurse academics are reflected in the findings of this study with their emphasis on reading and doing research and translating it into nursing practice. This needs to be done in a nonthreatening environment.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Wilkes et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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