“The Relationships Among Theory, Research, and Practice”

Use “The Relationships Among Theory, Research, and Practice” text and Figure 5-1.
Then. refer to the specific text: “…practicing nurses focus on unique individuals,
researchers focus on systematically collecting knowledge about samples and
populations, and theorists focus on abstract and general concepts and their
interrelationships. Understanding the different perspectives of each of these groups in
knowledge building shows their activities to be complementary.”

1. How can nurses better understand these different perspectives?
2. How can nurses make the different perspectives “complementary”?
3. How can nurses use the principles of diffusion of innovations
   (Chap. 1) to better understand the different perspectives of the
   activities in knowledge building for themselves?
4. How can nurses use the principles of diffusion of innovations to
   help colleagues better understand the different perspectives?

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