GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN NURSING: BE OR NOT
Introduction: Nursing is a practical discipline and has a lot of similarity to the doctrine of pragmatism. Many studies have paid to the issue of pragmatism in the nursing each in particular direction and in particular society and results of these studies are often contradicting each other. Method: Internet searching was conducted in Google Scholar, PubMed and Scopus databases. Articles were evaluated and used that examines the gap between theory and practice in nursing. Results: It can be concluded of the total of these studies that the meaning of the gap between the theory and practice is nonconformance theoretical training with what is nurses at the bedside to do. In terms of pragmatism truth is not static and unchangeable, but it grows and develops with time at each stage of the endless evolution what we call reality will be something that enables us to examine current problems satisfactorily. Nursing is diverse and pluralistic; Diversity in ideologies and our actions and plurality in the knowledge that is generated and used. The ideological diversity leads to a difference in the discourse, and these differences are plurality for one fact, these differences will continue in texts and create barriers for the development of nursing knowledge; but although the theory was out through experiences and whether there is before the experience we need it. Conclusion: There should be a gap between theory and practice because if there is no distance longer cannot be called theories and it is an actually practice; Remove this distance not desirable and sometimes preserve it is desirable for us. What makes the people unable to understand the theory in practice is that they cannot find the relationship between theories with practice or theory is so abstract that consider it different from the act.