Autonomy, Evidence And Intuition: The Role Of Nursing

Although nursing today seen as an independent healthcare professional practice, its historical dependence on physician still lingers. I would say, nurses could not able to be psychologically free and independent from physicians influence. For instance, Boland, Boland and Buus (2010) in their research article titled “Autonomy, evidence, and intuition: nurses and decision-making”, discussed this very issue that nurses have in clinical practice. According to the researchers, nurses still have a problem to be independent practitioner and the problem seems emanated from the nursing education and curriculum development. The researchers found that nurses, who were involved in professional nurse education program development, distanced themselves from developing computing clinical practice curricula compared to physician training program. Nursing education is more focused on theory “rhetorical moves to the dangerous irrationalism of intuitive practice or with the strict and possibly disempowering following of procedures” (Traynor et al., 2010, p.1590). …show more content…
According to Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson (2006), some nurses’ leadership profile is vague, and their decision making is ambiguous as well. “Nursing as a profession is people oriented with an emphasis on humanism and this probably influencing leadership in the area” (, 2006, p.349). It is, however, imperative for today’s nursing leaders to change their attitude and be free from historical bondage of dependence so that they become unambiguous in their decision making and distinct in their demand from the employees they