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creasing safety concerns. Schools of nursing will embrace nursing science as they
strive to meet the needs of changing student populations and the increasing com-
plexity of healthcare environments.
SUMMARY
This chapter provides an overview of nursing science and how nursing science re-
lates to typical nursing practice roles, nursing education, and nursing research. The
Foundation of Knowledge model was introduced as the organizing conceptual
framework for this book. Finally, the relationship of nursing science to nursing in-
formatics was discussed. In subsequent chapters the reader will learn more about
how nursing informatics supports ...