Mitchell (2013) suggests that evidence based practice is not the responsibility of the individual nurse, but should be resituated as an organizational responsibility and that nurses should direct our focus to values-based nursing practice or humanities-based nursing.
Karnick (2013, 2016) challenges us to recall our nursing roots and not reply only on evidencebased practice to care for patients and to celebrate nursing theory in order to legitimize nursing as a profession.
In your assigned online discussion group, please discuss the following questions:
- Review the five implications for nursing community as described by Mitchell (2013, p 147) and choose one that most interests/ resonates with you.
- Discuss whether you agree or disagree with the statement, including your rationale.
- Choose one of the nursing theorists (Nightingale, Watson, Parse, Paterson & Zderad) and consider what her/ their opinion might be regarding nursing knowledge and evience based practice.