Forum Each student must post (1) substantial initial post with a minimum of 250 words by Thursday before 11:59 PM. All posts and replies must contain at least (2) professional references, one may be the course textbook, cited correctly in the current APA format. Each reference must be cited in your initial posting. Remember to ask provocative questions to prompt online discussion with your peers using bold print at the end of your initial discussion. Late discussion posts are not accepted in this course.
The student must also reply to at least (2) classmates using a minimum of 150 words per reply by Sunday before 11:59 PM. All responses in the discussion forum should enhance the discussion. Non-informative messages posted in the discussion forum will not be counted towards the required number of replies for that topic. Each peer response must answer the peer question and must include two references and citations as stated above
Discussion Topic
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.”
How can nurses better understand these different perspectives?
How can nurses make the different perspectives “complementary”?
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?
How can nurses use the principles of diffusion of innovations to help colleagues better understand the different perspectives?
