title: Thoughts about evidence-based nursing practice.
abstract: This paper is an essay about evidence-based nursing practice, with an emphasis on evidence in the form of various types of theories developed by various modes of inquiry. The essay is the second in a series written to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the founding of Nursing Science Quarterly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fawcett
mesh_terms: D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory