Exploring the legitimacy of intuition as a form of nursing knowledge.
This article discusses intuition as a legitimate form of knowledge rather than solely as an expert trait. It also describes the possibility of interdisciplinary research using theories and frameworks from psychology, computer science, physics and neuroscience to provide empirical evidence for intuitive knowledge to be considered a legitimate form of knowledge.
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Department of Maternal Child Nursing, University of South Alabama, Alabama, United States. anitasmith@usouthal.edu
D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D019359:Knowledge; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009729:Nursing