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Theory to practice: implementation in the clinical setting

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Current Issues in Nursing

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Ever since organized nursing began, nurses have been theorizing about nursing. At any time when ideas (concepts) are delineated, hunches developed by linking concepts together to help describe, explain, predict or prescribe nursing, and those hunches are then communicated and used in a number of situations, the beginnings of nursing theory are formulated (Meleis, 1985).

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  1. Audrey Miller
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  1. Institute of Advanced Nursing Education, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK

    Moya Jolley MA(Ed), BSc(Econ), DipEd, SRN, RNT, Dip in Nursing Education (Lond) (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  2. Midwifery and Health Visiting, United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, UK

    Peta Allan MA, DipFEd, SRN, ONC, RNT, FBIM (Director for Professional Standards and Development) (Director for Professional Standards and Development)

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Miller, A. (1989). Theory to practice: implementation in the clinical setting. In: Jolley, M., Allan, P. (eds) Current Issues in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3328-7_3

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