title: Unwritten knowledge in nursing: consider the spoken as well as the written word.
abstract: Knowledge has been defined as familiarity gained by experience or a person's range of information and theoretical understanding (Sykes, 1982). The distinction is made to avoid confusion with the knowledge of scientism (Bullock, Stallybrass, & Trombley, 1988), where true or factual knowledge is held to be derivable only from the inductive methods of the natural sciences. Knowledge has its origins in a broader field of understanding than that of empirical measurement.
authors.affiliation: Julia Farr Centre, Fullarton, South Australia.
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: O'Brien
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authors.lastname: Pearson
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009729:Nursing; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D012951:Socialization; D013060:Speech