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OJNI Current Issue

Volume 17 Number 1 February 2013

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) February 2013
ISSN # 1089-9758 Indexed in CINAHL © 2013

ARTICLES

Development of a Social Networking Site for Patients and Families: A Doctoral Level Nursing Informatics Project. 
by Ann McNeill DNP(c), MSN, FNP-BC, CCRC, Andrea S. Underwood, DNP (c), FNP-C, Amy Wisniewski, DNP(c), MSN, APRN Susan Sitzenstock DNP(c), MSN, FNP-BC and Roseanne Fairchild, PhD, RN, CNE, NE-BC
Developing a Computer Interpretable Guideline with Nursing Knowledge: A Pilot Study of a Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention
by Jeeyae Choi, DNSc, RN and Hyeoneui Kim, PhD, RN
Using High-Fidelity Simulation to Close the Teaching and Learning Loop.
by Lisa Sparacino MS, RN, PhD(c) and Elaine Della Vecchia, PhD, RN
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Marking out the clinical expert/clinical leader /clinical scholar: perspectives from nurses in the clinical arena

Judy Mannix, Lesley Wilkes and Debra Jackson

Abstract (provisional)

Background

Clinical scholarship has been conceptualised and theorised in the nursing literature for over 30 years but no research has captured nurses' clinicians' views on how it differs or is the same as clinical expertise and clinical leadership. The aim of this study was to determine clinical nurses' understanding of the differences and similarities between the clinical expert, clinical leader and clinical scholar.

Methods

A descriptive interpretative qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with 18 practising nurses from Australia, Canada and England. The audio-taped interviews were transcribed and the text coded for emerging themes. The themes were sorted into categories of clinical expert, clinical leader and clinical scholarship as described by the participants. These themes were then compared and contrasted and the essential elements that characterise the nursing roles of the clinical expert, clinical leader and clinical scholar were identified.

Results

Clinical experts were seen as linking knowledge to practice with some displaying clinical leadership and scholarship. Clinical leadership is seen as a positional construct with a management emphasis. For the clinical scholar they linked theory and practice and encouraged research and dissemination of knowledge.

Conclusion

There are distinct markers for the roles of clinical expert, clinical leader and clinical scholar. Nurses working in one or more of these roles need to work together to improve patient care. An 'ideal nurse' may be a blending of all three constructs. As nursing is a practice discipline its scholarship should be predominantly based on clinical scholarship. Nurses need to be encouraged to go beyond their roles as clinical leaders and experts to use their position to challenge and change through the propagation of knowledge to their community.

The complete article is available as a provisional PDF. The fully formatted PDF and HTML versions are in production.



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Everyday Ethics in Nursing Practice: Empirical Research and Methods for Reflection
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Guest Editors: Berit Støre Brinchmann, Bert Molewijk, Siri Tønnessen, Betty-Ann Solvoll
Manuscript Due: Friday, 12 April 2013 
Publication Date: Friday, 30 August 2013

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