The Avis and Freshwater article talks about the different views of evidence-based practice (EBP) and argues that nursing, all in all, requires a type of knowledge-based approach and must therefore, critically reflect on all evidence collected, ranging from one’s individual healthcare encounters to various media such as novels and films, rather than just on scientifically collected evidence. Furthermore, the article describes different ideologies of epistemology as well the ideologies’ applications within the context of practice and individualized nursing. One view described is positivist epistemology which holds that some beliefs are acceptable based on mere observation and are held independently from others, while, in contrast, the coherentist
