More Than Words? Embracing a Practice–Care Distinction for Nursing Practice Education

Abstract

In this paper, authors draw on distinctions between nursing practice and nursing care to inform abstraction and assignment of pre-licensure practice experience hours. Authors discuss an imperative to develop understandings of practice education and practice experience hours that reflect nursing as a basic human science, with implications for the enrichment of student scholarship and flourishing.

Concept Inventing: Feeling Pulled in Different Directions

“…Interestingly, rather than develop their interests within a nursing perspective, Udod and colleagues (2017) drew on a framework with concepts germane to psychology (stress, coping). Although their research offered knowledge about nursing, opportunity to generate knowledge of nursing (Thoun & Tschanz, 2021) framed within a nursing-specific perspective was lost. Recognition of this loss inspired the authors of this paper to conceptualize a living experience within a theory of nursing, specifically humanbecoming (Parse, 2021), and thus contribute explicitly to the aims of nursing, related epistemic authority, and provision for autonomous professional practice.…”

Nursing Science Quarterly Best Paper Award: 2021

“…“More than words? Embracing a practice-care distinction for nursing practice education” (Thoun & Tschanz, 2021) was selected by the Editorial Board of Nursing Science Quarterly for this honor. SAGE Publications will present them with letters of commendation and an honorarium.…”