The rest of the analysis is useful and thought provoking, but perhaps ongoing. Empirical referents are presented in the form of questions to be asked about dress and dressings. This approach elucidates, but does not bring us sufficiently close to an operational definition. The preferred process would be to provide examples of the concept in the clinical setting. We wait patiently for the next chapter.
Ethnocentrism is the subject of our second concept analysis in the current issue.
The author uses Walker and Avant s method presenting model, borderline and invented cases, but stops short of providing us with nursing related empirical referents. The critical attributes are clearly asserted and the cases serve to illustrate the concept, so it is not clear why the theorist chose not to provide empirical referents from the clinical setting, given that the cases are all from other social settings. While the omission does not detract from what is there, it does leave the reader with a remaining task if contemplating instrument construction within the realm of nursing. This analysis was generally well-written and easy to read for the audience for which it is intended. The theorist could perhaps be criticized for including too many secondary references, a comment we have probably all received from professors.