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Kristian Larsen1, Lis Adamsen, Lene Bjerregaard
1University Hospitals Centre for Nursing and Care Research (UCSF), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Abstract:
The aim of this article is to highlight relations between theory and practice and the genesis of professional action in clinical nursing and among researchers. With use of a sociologically based empirical approach, focus is placed on the knowledge involved in the work of researchers and practitioners in terms of the source of their knowledge. Unlike a dominant barrier paradigm, theory and practice have different logics; they are not on a continuum nor are they hierarchically ordered. They exist in their own right as theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge. In daily practice, clinical nurses are inspired and learn from the context, including each other, and they are active producers of knowledge, not simply recipients of knowledge. This study, therefore, claims that there is no research-practice gap "in itself" (per se) as argued in the "barriers paradigm."
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