
474 | CHAPTER 27 Translational Research: Generating Evidence for Practice
There has been concern from nurse theorists that nurses are being influenced
too much by the medical model in accepting the randomized controlled trial as the
only true source of evidence, thereby “reverting to the medical perspective” rather
than incorporating “theory-guided evidence and diverse ways of knowing”
(Fawcett, Watson, Walker, & Fitzpatrick, 2001, p. 115). The context change from
medicine to nursing requires nurses to apply other knowledge and nursing theory.
The use of research results alone as a basis for clinical decision making ignores other
types of evidence inherent ...