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Clinical Scholarship in Family Nursing

It has been 9 years since that editorial was published, and I am still eagerly making the same plea. Where are the voices from practice who can describe innovative family nursing interventions? An article by Donna Diers (1995) about clinical scholarship argued that whereas clinical research in nursing is a well-known and accepted form of scholarly activity, clinical scholarship offers an alternate way of extending knowledge about nursing practice. She conceptualized clinical scholarship in a practice profession as an intellectual activity that generates knowledge through the examination, analysis, and synthesis of practice, thereby creating new understanding for practice. This is a very different process than traditional forms of knowledge development in nursing research, which assert that one first needs to understand the phenomenon, describe it, and eventually design and test interventions for it. Clinical scholarship examines the practice itself, offers rich and thick descriptions of the practice, synthesizes practice knowledge, and even changes theory in response to this process. This is complicated, demanding scholarly work because it is discovery oriented and strives to account for a process