The Connecticut Nurses' Association responds to Dr. James L. Eliasoph's guest editorial.
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Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to B E Pokorny.
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It is essential to establish some clinical validity for the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnoses proposed to date. The application of one type of descriptive study to the nursing diagnosis of knowledge deficit is presented. Limited clinical support is provided for some defining characteristics, but no critical indicator is identified.