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Nurs Sci Q
; 36(1): 51-57, 2023 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2171223
ABSTRACT
As time passes, concepts change. The risk to nursing theories is that concepts can shift so far away from a theorist's originally intended meaning that future scholars might misunderstand or misuse what will become historically time-bound theories. To preserve authentic nursing knowledge, the process of conceptual matching and translation is proposed. Two thought experiments are used to demonstrate conceptual translation.