A Directional Model Depicting Nursing’s Command of Clinical Surveillance as a Science

Unique scientific contributions are made by the discipline of nursing every year. There is a growing call to action among professional nursing organizations to recognize nursing as a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-designated discipline. To elevate the practice of nursing to the accepted disciplines of STEM, nurse scientists must curate a body of scientific knowledge exploring and amplifying aspects of care that no other discipline can have command over. With an abundance of literature to support it, this article aims to define clinical surveillance, as an aspect of science that no discipline outside of nursing has absolute command of Clinical surveillance is known to be a concept within the discipline of nursing. This article argues that it is not only a concept but also that the discipline of nursing holds a distinct command of clinical surveillance science over any other discipline.