The Discipline of Nursing

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Abstract
Nursing as basic science would require PhD programs in the discipline, creating disciplinary knowledge that had a distinctive focus. Students in current doctoral-level nursing theory classes often express interest in the term as a way to legitimize the scientific enterprise and distinguish nursing science from other disciplines, particularly health disciplines. Nursing research often was not connected directly to nursing theory, and the value of nursing theory was not always recognized. It can be interpreted that the 1983 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, in characterizing nursing research as part of biomedical and/or behavioral science, implied that nursing was an applied science. Throughout the nursing knowledge literature there is general agreement that nursing knowledge has developed from the abstract to the specific, from the broad theoretical propositional statements to the specific testable hypotheses. Nurse scholars continue to develop theoretical, empirical, and expert clinical knowledge for the nursing discipline.

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