Perspectives on Policy and the Value of Nursing Science in a Big Data Era
Keyword(s):
Big Data
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As data volume explodes, nurse scientists grapple with ways to adapt to the big data movement without jeopardizing its epistemic values and theoretical focus that celebrate while acknowledging the authority and unity of its body of knowledge. In this article, the authors describe big data and emphasize ways that nursing science brings value to its study. Collective nursing voices that call for more nursing engagement in the big data era are answered with ways to adapt and integrate theoretical and domain expertise from nursing into data science.
2016 ◽
Vol 16
(4)
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pp. 219-224
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