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Medicine and nursing need both scientific and naturalistic inquiryEDITOR,--The issue of the BMJ of 29 July, exploring how nursing and medicine may interact more usefully, should prompt the nursing journals to initiate a similar debate in their pages. It was with dismay, though, that we read the two letters1 2 concerning an article by Hay.3 Although Hay's article received comment in the nursing press, the arguments surrounding it provide a timely rejoinder to the articles in the BMJ. The enthusiasm and impatience of nurses and midwives to develop research based practice, albeit within a framework that encompasses more than the scientific paradigm, is obvious to those in the professions. A recent series of workshops throughout Britain on the use of research in nursing led by one of us has reinforced this impression.
Hay is labouring under the misconception that "bedside nursing" is solely an intuitive activity synonymous with the caring
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