This study addresses the question of normative analysis of the value‐based aspects of nursing. In our perspective, values in science may be distinguished into (i)epistemicwhen related to the goals of truth and objectivity and (ii)non‐epistemicwhen related to social, cultural or political aspects. Furthermore, values can be calledconstitutivewhen necessary for a scientific enterprise, orcontextualwhen contingently associated with science. Analysis of the roles of the various forms of values and models of knowledge translation provides the ground to understand the specific role of values in nursing. A conceptual framework has been built to classify some of the classical perspectives on nursing knowledge and to examine the relationships between values and different forms of knowledge in nursing. It follows that adopting a normative perspective in the analysis of nursing knowledge provides key elements to identify its proper dimension.
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