ABSTRACT
Nursing interests frequently transgress or cross disciplinary boundaries. Nurse writing displays a great deal of fondness for evaluative writing. Reviews performed by nurses thus tend to overlook the impact of reduced cultural and linguistic diversity in accessed sources. Students, researchers, educators and clinicians need to obtain the best understandings possible, and where best understanding is obtained from wide and careful reading, including reading that steps outside of traditional nursing sources, then that is what ought to happen and be encouraged. However, almost every nursing guide on the subject of literature searches and reviews focuses overwhelmingly on the location and appraisal of research and, moreover, students and researchers are frequently pushed to prioritise nursing sources. Cumulatively, too easy recourse to attitudes of excuse – or simply excuses – contributes to nursing failing to develop a language capable of describing the activities it engages in.
