title: Accountability and intuition: justifying nursing practice.
abstract: This article examines how promoting individual accountability and justifying nursing practice using scientific evidence appears to contradict theories of intuitive nursing. The author considers the professional and legal implications raised by the contradiction and advocates that evidence-based practice must be the justification in law for nursing action.
authors.affiliation: University College of St Martin, Lancaster.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom