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The Meaning Of High-Quality Nursing Care As Derived From King's Interacting Systems, Mary Ellen Gunther

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize quality with in a framework unique to nursing, King's Interacting Systems. Clarification of the concept with in the metaparadigm and a nursing conceptual framework provides the understanding of the domain and scope of nursing necessary for professional autonomy. This differentiation fosters the continued development of the discipline as well as facilitating collaboration with medicine and other health care disciplines for the ultimate benefit of the patient.

Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics involves a dialogical interaction between the whole and parts of the text and between the horizons of the text and the interpreter. In …