Topics for: Epistemic Caring: The Leadership, Structure, and Culture (LSC) Theory of Nursing Research Advancement

Explore the practical challenge of advancing nursing research using the LSC theory. Discuss how an epistemically caring environment helps translate new evidence efficiently from academic discovery back to direct patient care and policy change.

Focus on the Leadership, Structure, and Culture (LSC) components of the theory. Debate the specific ways that nursing leadership can create the necessary organizational structures to foster a research-focused culture that values and rewards evidence generation.

A discussion on the core concept of Epistemic Caring—how nurses and leaders demonstrate a commitment to knowledge generation, sharing, and validation (the "caring for knowledge") within the profession. How does this differ from traditional concepts of caring?