What is it about?
We compared the ‘cascade model of knowledge translation’, also known as ‘classical biomedical model’ in clinical practice (in which knowledge gained at population level may be applied directly to a specific clinical context), with an emergentist model of knowledge translation. The structure and dynamics of nursing knowledge are outlined, adopting the distinction between epistemic and non‐epistemic values.
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Why is it important?
The placebo effect is usually considered difficult to be explained within the classical biomedical model, and we underscore its importance in shaping nursing knowledge. In fact, nurses are primarily responsible for administering placebo in the clinical setting and have an essential role in promoting the placebo effect and reducing the nocebo effect.
Perspectives
According to our assumptions, it is essential to know the clinical context and to understand other people’s beliefs to make sense of the placebo effect, since the placebo effect only works when the beliefs of doctors, nurses and patients interact. Therefore, it should be better explored the close relationship between placebo effect and nursing clinical knowledge in the day by day practice.
Professor Renzo Zanotti
university of Padova
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This page is a summary of: Nursing knowledge: hints from the placebo effect, Nursing Philosophy, July 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nup.12140.
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