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Well‐being and dignity in innovative digitally‐led healthcare for aged adults Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Moonika Raja, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt
Dignity is a central value in care for aged adults, and it must be protected and respected. With demographic changes leading to an aging population, health ministries are increasingly investing in digitalization. However, using unfamiliar digital technology can be challenging and thus impact aged adults' dignity and well‐being. The INNOVATEDIGNITY project aims to research new, dignified ways of engaging
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Nursing's professional character: A chimera? Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Martin Lipscomb
Does nursing possess a character? The idea that professions have characters is hard to sustain, and the possibility that nursing as a collectively or occupation lacks a character is worth considering. To this end it is argued that absent robust theoretical and/or evidential scaffolding it is implausible to suppose that nursing has an objectively real (reality describing) character, and if ‘nursing's
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Defining dignity in higher education as an alternative to requiring ‘Trigger Warnings’ Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Gordon MacLaren
This article examines trigger warnings, particularly the call for trigger warnings on university campuses, and from a Levinasian and Kantian ethical perspective, and addresses the question: When, if ever, are trigger warnings helpful to student's learning? The nursing curriculum is developed with key stakeholders and regulatory bodies to ensure graduate nurses are competent to deliver a high standard
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From informed to empowered consent Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Chelsea O. P. Hagopian
Informed consent is ethically incomplete and should be redefined as empowered consent. This essay challenges theoretical assumptions of the value of informed consent in light of substantial evidence of its failure in clinical practice and questions the continued emphasis on autonomy as the primary ethical justification for the practice of consent in health care. Human dignity—rather than autonomy—is
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Emily's struggle for dignity: An idiographic case study of a woman with multiple sclerosis Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Lucia Podolinská, Juraj Čáp
Dignity is one of the essential values and central concepts in nursing care. Dignity can be threatened due to radical life changes; therefore, this idiographic case study aimed to explore the sense of dignity experienced by a woman with multiple sclerosis. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was adopted, using data collected through a face-to-face semistructured interview with Emily, a 45-year-old
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African philosophy and nursing: A potential twain that shall meet? Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jonathan Bayuo
Undoubtedly, the discipline of nursing has been influenced extensively by both Western and Eastern/Asian philosophies. What remains unknown or, perhaps, poorly articulated is the potential influence of African philosophy on the onto-epistemology of nursing. As a starting point, this article sought to examine the core claims of African philosophy and how they may offer new meanings to the metaparadigm
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The place of philosophy in nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Agness C. Tembo
Philosophy adds humanness to nursing and facilitates holistic care. Philosophies like Ubuntu which purports that a person is only a person through other people and emphasises community cohesion and caring for each other can add humanness to nursing. Because Ubuntu validates subjective experience and its meaning in the lifeworld, it exemplifies the basis of holistic and individualised caring in nursing
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A visionary platform for decolonization: The Red Deal Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Mohamad H. Al-Chami, Wendy Gifford, Veldon Coburn
In this study, we discuss the colonial project as an eliminatory structure of indigenous ways of knowing and doing that is built into Canadian social and health institutions. We elaborate on the role nursing plays in maintaining systemic racism, marginalization and discrimination of Indigenous Peoples. Based on historical practices and present-day circumstances, we argue that changing language in research
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Gender influences on caring, dignity and well-being in older person care: A systematic literature review and thematic synthesis Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Lamprini M. Xiarchi, Kristina Nässén, Lina Palmér, Fiona Cowdell, Elisabeth Lindberg
Globally, healthcare has become dominated by women nurses. Gender is also known to impact the way people are cared for in various healthcare systems. Considering gender from the perspective of how lived bodies are positioned through the structural relations of institutions and processes, this systematic review aims to explore the meaning of gender in the caring relationship between the nurse and the
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Can philosophy benefit nurses and/or nursing? Heidegger and Strauss, problems of knowledge and context Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Martin Lipscomb
When researchers and scholars claim their work is based on a philosophical idea or a philosopher's corpus of ideas (and theory/theorist can be substituted for philosophy/philosopher), and when ‘basing’ signifies something significant rather than subsidiary or inconsequential, what level of understanding and expertise can readers reasonably expect authors to possess? In this paper, some of the uses
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Older, self-identifying gay men's conceptualisations of psychological well-being (PWB): A Canadian perspective Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ingrid Handlovsky, Tessa Wonsiak, Anthony T. Amato
Many older gay men experience diminished psychological well-being (PWB) due to unique circumstances including discrimination, living with HIV, and aging through the HIV/AIDS crisis. However, there remains ambiguity as to how older gay men define and understand PWB. Our team interviewed and analyzed the accounts of 26 older (50+) self-identifying English-speaking men living in southwestern British Columbia
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A response to Michael Clinton's On Bender's orientation to models: Towards a philosophical debate on covering laws, theory, emergence and mechanisms in nursing science Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Miriam Bender
My purpose in this short response to Clinton's interesting article On Bender's orientation to models: Towards a philosophical debate on covering laws, theory, emergence and mechanisms in nursing science, which is published in this issue, is not to provide any counterargument to Clinton's interpretation of my own argument; readers are welcome to interrogate both articles at their leisure and make their
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Is it true that all human beings have dignity? Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Marcin Paweł Ferdynus
The discussion around dignity in nursing philosophy has been underway for many years. The literature still lacks philosophical arguments that would justify the thesis that all people have dignity. Scholars who defend dignity as an intrinsic value most often refer to Kant. However, Kant does not seem to be the most suitable candidate to defend the thesis that all human beings possess dignity. In this
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Editorial preface: The role of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and power relations in the delivery of humane nursing care. Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Stefanos Mantzoukas,Miriam Bender
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Exploring tacit knowledge based on an expert nurse's practice for stroke patients Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Satsuki Obama, Tsuyako Hidaka, Shizuko Tanigaki
This study explored tacit knowledge based on an expert nurse's practice who cares for stroke patients by using the hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The participant (‘Ms. A’) was a nursing researcher and college faculty member involved in the education of advanced practice nurses; her specialty was stroke rehabilitation nursing. She was asked to describe the meaning and value she gained from her
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Nursing as total institution Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Jess Dillard-Wright, Danisha Jenkins
Healthcare under the auspices of late-stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurses and patients alike, demanding conformity, obedience, perfection. This capture, which resembles Deleuze's enclosure, entangles nurses in carceral systems and gives way to a postenclosure society, an institution without walls. These societies of control constitute another sort of total institution, more
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From ‘if-then’ to ‘what if?’ Rethinking healthcare algorithmics with posthuman speculative ethics Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Jamie Smith, Goda Klumbyte, Ren Loren Britton
This article discusses the role that algorithmic thinking and management play in health care and the kind of exclusions this might create. We argue that evidence-based medicine relies on research and data to create pathways for patient journeys. Coupled with data-based algorithmic prediction tools in health care, they establish what could be called health care algorithmics—a mode of management of healthcare
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What has philosophy ever done for nursing: A discursive shift from margins to mainstream Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Jane M. Georges
This paper is a personal dialogue of maneuvering the landscape of scholarship in the United States as a nurse faculty. The principal thesis of this paper is that a discursive shift from margins to mainstream literature has occurred within nursing discourse during the past 20 years as the result of a growing body of work by nurse philosophers. I utilize my own work in nursing philosophy as an exemplar
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Special issue guest editorial: The thoughts we think with—As philosophers, as nurses—Matter Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Jess Dillard-Wright, Agness ChisangaTembo
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Mattering: Per/forming nursing philosophy in the Chthulucene Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Annie-Claude Laurin, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, Jamie B. Smith, Brandon Brown, Patrick Martin, Emmanuel Christian Tedjasukmana
This paper presents an overview of the process of entanglement at the 25th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference (IPNC) at University of California at Irvine held on August 18, 2022. Representing collective work from the US, Canada, UK and Germany, our panel entitled ‘What can critical posthuman philosophies do for nursing?’ examined critical posthumanism and its operations and potential in
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Nursing in deathworlds: Necropolitics of the life, dying and death of an unhoused person in the United States healthcare industrial complex Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Danisha Jenkins, Laura Chechel, Brian Jenkins
This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in which an unhoused person is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. The case is a dramatised representation of the extent to which biopolitical forces via reduction to bare life through biopolitical and necropolitical operations are prominent influences in nursing and medical care. This
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Farewell to humanism? Considerations for nursing philosophy and research in posthuman times Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Olga Petrovskaya
In this paper, I argue that critical posthumanism is a crucial tool in nursing philosophy and scholarship. Posthumanism entails a reconsideration of what ‘human’ is and a rejection of the whole tradition founding Western life in the 2500 years of our civilization as narrated in founding texts and embodied in governments, economic formations and everyday life. Through an overview of historical periods
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Editor's introduction to the special issue on the 25th international nursing philosophy conference associated with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society. Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Miriam Bender,Stefanos Mantzoukas
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A Gadamerian approach to nursing: Merging philosophy with practice Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Casey Rentmeester, Meghan Liebzeit
Philosophy is commonly criticized for being too abstract and detached from practical spheres. Upon chronicling how philosophy has gained this reputation, the authors explore the philosophical fields of phenomenology and hermeneutics that have explicitly attempted to merge philosophy with everyday life contexts. In recent decades, phenomenology and hermeneutics have been applied to healthcare. In the
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Care in nursing as a contested concept? A Bergsonian perspective Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Keith Robinson
The concept of care has occupied a central place in nursing philosophy and scholarship since the modern formation of the profession. Perhaps the defining character of the scholarship has been the recognition not only of the complexity of the concept of care, its elusiveness and ambiguity, but also the lack of consensus or agreement regarding its meaning and value. I will make two interconnected arguments:
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Telling a different story: Historiography, ethics, and possibility for nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Jessica Dillard-Wright
With this paper, I will interrogate some of the implications of nursing's dominant historiography, the history written by and about nursing, and its implications for nursing ethics as a praxis, invoking feminist philosopher Donna Haraway's mantra that ‘it matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.’ First, I will describe what I have come to understand as the nursing imaginary, a shared
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Whither nursing philosophy: Past, present and future Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Janet Holt
A version of this paper was given as the Inaugural Steven Edwards Memorial Lecture at the 25th conference of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society 16th August 2022. Using the literary meaning of ‘whither’, that is ‘to what place’, this paper will explore the role of philosophy in nursing, past, present, and future. The paper will begin with some thoughts on the history of nursing philosophy
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Pain cannot (just) be whatever the person says: A critique of a dogma Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Charles Djordjevic
McCaffery's definition of pain has proven to be one of the most consequential in nursing and healthcare more generally. She put forward this definition in response to the persistent undertreatment of pain. However, despite raising her definition to the status of a dogma, the undertreatment remains a real problem. This essay explores the contention that McCaffery's definition of pain elides critical
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Examining the role of nurse executives in homecare through the lens of the Sociology of Ignorance and Critical Management Studies Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Lisa Ashley, Amélie Perron
This article presents a novel theoretical approach to explore nurse executives’ paradoxical identity and agency of executive and nurse in homecare organizations. This complex phenomenon has yet to be well theorized or analyzed. Through a synthesis of literature, we demonstrate that Critical Management Studies, as informed by Foucault, and the Sociology of Ignorance, can create a different understanding
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What nursing chooses not to know: Practices of epistemic silence/silencing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jessica Dillard-Wright, Claire Valderama-Wallace, Lucinda Canty, Amélie Perron, Ismalia De Sousa, Janice Gullick
Drawing from a keynote panel held at the hybrid 25th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, this discussion paper examines the question of epistemic silence in nursing from five different perspectives. Contributors include US-based scholar Claire Valderama-Wallace, who meditated on ecosystems of settler colonial logics of nursing; American scholar Lucinda Canty discussed the epistemic silencing
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Poststructuralism and the construction of subjectivities in forensic mental health: Opportunities for resistance Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jim A. Johansson, Dave Holmes
Nurses working in correctional and forensic mental health settings face unique challenges in the provision of care to patients within custodial settings. The subjectivities of both patients and nurses are subject to the power relations, discourses and abjection encountered within these practice milieus. Using a poststructuralist approach using the work of Foucault, Kristeva, and Deleuze and Guattari
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On Bender's orientation to models: Towards a philosophical debate on covering laws, theory, emergence and mechanisms in nursing science Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Michael Clinton
Nursing scholars continuously refine nursing knowledge and the philosophical foundations of nursing practice. They advance nursing knowledge by creating new knowledge and weighing the relevance of developments in cognate sciences. Nurse philosophers go further by providing epistemological and ontological arguments for explanations of nursing phenomena. In this article, I engage with Bender's arguments
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Diagrams, images and conceptual maps in nursing education Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Christine Durmis, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld
The way in which one understands information and concepts, and the way a student works to develop this, is an individual aspect of learning that cannot be universally defined as (at least manifested) the same for everyone. ‘Understanding’ is a broad term, and the way one achieves understanding is dependent on the way that material is presented. In this article, we argue that the philosophy of science
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Reflections on the relational ontology of medical assistance in dying Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Barbara Pesut, Sally Thorne
Canadian nursing practice has been profoundly influenced by the legalization of medical assistance in dying in 2016, requiring that nurses navigate new and sometimes highly challenging experiences. Findings from our longitudinal studies of nurses' experiences suggest that these include deep emotional responses to medical assistance in dying, an urgency in orchestrating the perfect death, and a high
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What can anarchism do for nursing? Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Patrick Martin, Annie-Claude Laurin
The notion of mutual aid, which Peter Kropotkin introduced in the 19th century, goes against the logic of competition as a natural condition, and instead shows how mutual aid is a more important factor to consider for the survival and flourishing of a group. The best cooperation strategies allow organisms to adapt to different types of changes in their environment—and we have witnessed a lot of these
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Person-centred conversations in nursing and health: A theoretical analysis based on perspectives on communication Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Joakim Öhlén, Febe Friberg
In this paper we use the concept of the person to examine person-centred dialogue and show how person-centred dialogue is different from and significantly more than transfer of information, which is the dominant notion in health care. A further motivation for the study is that although person-centredness as an idea has a strong heritage in nursing and the broader healthcare discourse, person-centred
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Decolonize the history of nursing by magnifying the contributions of nurses of colour Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Jennifer Woo
In this paper, I write about nurses of colour who have made significant contributions to nursing, yet are actively ignored in traditional nursing textbooks related to colonized thinking. One consequence of this is that when we think about comparing the disparities of the past to the present day, we see that we have not made much of a difference. The disparity is still huge. I call on all of us as nurses
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Decolonizing research with Black youths Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Bukola Salami
Black youths experience poor mental health especially due to anti-Black racism. Research related to Black youths have been conducted on Black youths with little or no participation or engagement rather than with Black youths. This paper presents information from a dialogue on decolonizing nursing research. I draw on interviews and conversation cafes with around 120 Black youths in Canada to identify
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Editor's introduction to the invited special issue on decolonizing nursing. Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Miriam Bender,Stefanos Mantzoukas
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Dismantling racist ideologies in nursing academia to enhance the success of students identifying as Black, Indigenous and students of colour Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I worked when I shared these insights is located ‘On traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigamme, north Americas largest systems of freshwater lakes where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin's sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican
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Introduction to decolonizing nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Peggy L. Chinn, Marlaine C. Smith
The fact that racism and other forms of discrimination and injustice have persisted in our own nursing communities despite our rhetoric of caring and compassion can no longer be denied. This fact gave rise to a webinar in which the scholars represented in this issue of Nursing Philosophy appear. The webinar centered on the philosophy, phenomenology and scholarship of Indigenous nurses and nurses of
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Towards a new (or rearticulated) philosophy of mental health nursing: A dialogue-on-dialogue Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Freya Collier-Sewell, Katerina Melino
The following dialogue takes up recent calls within nursing scholarship to critically imagine alternative nursing futures through the relational process of call and response. Towards this end, the dialogue builds on letters which we, the authors, exchanged as part of the 25th International Nursing Philosophy Conference in 2022. In these letters, we asked of ourselves and each other: If we were to think
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Decolonizing health policy and practice: Vaccine hesitancy in the United States Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Barbara Hatcher
Using 2021 data and information related to COVID-19, this paper discusses the contribution of colonization, medical mistrust and racism to vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy is defined as ‘delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability’. Colonization is described as the ‘way the extractive economic system of capitalism came to the United States, supported by systems of supremacy
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Breaking the chains: Decolonizing the language of Nursology Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Daniel Felipe Martín Suárez-Baquero
In this article, I discuss the concept of ‘Decolonizing Nursing’, answering what this process is about, and how and when it should be done. I introduce the idea of epistemological dominance and the concepts of colonization and decolonization of nursing knowledge. I describe my experiences of coming from Latin America and facing Anglo-Saxon academy to discuss core disciplinary nursing knowledge and
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A reflection on the decolonization discourse in nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Favorite Iradukunda
Colonialism, in its many forms and stages is often imposed as being central to the narratives of colonizedpeople and their cultures, as well as the genesis of their knowledge. In colonial discourse, lands and the occupants of these lands were ‘discovered’, further implying that colonized people did not have their own ways of knowing (nor even existence) before colonization. This narrative has been
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Promoting moral imagination in nursing education: Imagining and performing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Darlaine Jantzen, Lorelei Newton, Kerry-Ann Dompierre, Sean Sturgill
Moral imagination is a central component of moral agency and person-centred care. Becoming moral agents who can sustain attention on patients and their families through their illness and suffering involves imagining the other, what moral possibilities are available, what choices to make, and how one wants to be. This relationship between moral agency, moral imagination, and personhood can be effaced
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Creating theory: Encouragement for using creativity and deduction in qualitative nursing research Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Elisabeth Bergdahl, Carina M. Berterö
Texts about theory in nursing often refer to theory construction by using inductive methods in a rigid way. In this paper, it is instead argued that theories are created, which is in line with most philosophers of science. Theory creation is regarded as a creative process that does not follow a specific method or logic. As in any creative endeavour, the inspiration for theory creation can come from
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Beyond loss: An essay about presence and sparkling moments based on observations from life coexisting with a person living with dementia Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Janne B. Damsgaard, Jette Lauritzen, Charlotte Delmar, Monica E. Kvande
This is an essay based on a story with observations, about present and sparkling moments from everyday life coexisting with a mother living with dementia. The story is used to begin philosophical underpinnings reflecting on ‘how it could be otherwise’. Dementia deploys brutal existential experiences such as cognitive deterioration, decline in mental functioning and often hurtful social judgements.
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What nurses of color want from nursing philosophers Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Lucinda Canty, Favorite Iradukunda, Claire Valderama-Wallace, Rebecca O. Shasanmi-Ellis, Crystal Garvey
Scholars of color have been instrumental in advancing nursing knowledge development but find limited spaces where one can authentically share their philosophical perspective. Although there is a call for antiracism in nursing and making way for more diverse and inclusive theories and philosophies, our voices remain at the margins of nursing theory and philosophy. In nursing philosophy, there continues
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Decolonizing nursing through the lens of Black maternal health Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Lucinda Canty
In the United States, there is a long history of racial disparities in maternal health, with Black women disproportionately representing poor maternal health outcomes. Black women are three to four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related complication and twice as likely to experience severe maternal morbidity when compared to white women. Where are nurses in the development of knowledge to
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The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Mark Pearson, Stefan R. Egglestone, Gary Winship
The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impact on the work of mental health nurses. However, despite numerous revolutions within the field of mental health, the biological paradigm has remained largely
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Lefebvre's production of space: Implications for nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jacqueline A. Strus, Dave Holmes, Patrick O'Byrne, Chad Hammond
In this paper, we argue that nurses need to be aware of how the production of space in specific contexts – including health care systems and research institutions – perpetuates marginalized populations' state of social otherness. Lefebvre's idea regarding spatial triad is mobilized in this paper, as it pertains to two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer populations (2SLGBTQ*). We believe
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Re-examining the relationship between moral distress and moral agency in nursing Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Georgina Morley, Lauren R. Sankary
In recent years, the phenomenon of moral distress has been critically examined—and for a good reason. There have been a number of different definitions suggested, some that claimed to be consistent with the original definition but in fact referred to different epistemological states. In this paper, we re-examine moral distress by exploring its relationship with moral agency. We critically examine three
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Corrigendum to Time for different stories: Reflections on IPONS panel addressing current debates in nursing theory, education, and practice Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01
Hopkins-Walsh, J. (2022). Time for different stories: Reflections on IPONS panel addressing current debates in nursing theory, education, and practice. Nursing Philosophy, 23, e12412. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12412 In section 2.1 of the “Politics and philosophy” the very first sentence has Dr. Pesut written out as “Dr. Pasut.” We apologize for this error.
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Positionality Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Carole Rushton
1 INTRODUCTION In this essay, I discuss the implications of the notion ‘positionality’ for understanding the transformative capacity of nurses and the nursing profession. Positionality can be used to denote ‘how’ and from ‘where’ nurses construct meanings for themselves relationally and how they then act in accordance with these meanings in the places where they work. Drawing from the nonnursing literature
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Philosophical underpinnings of intersubjectivity and its significance to phenomenological research: A discussion paper Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Agness Chisanga Tembo, Janice Gullick, Joseph Francis Pendon
Intersubjectivity is the proposition that human experience occurs in a world of shared and embodied understandings, mediated by culture and language. Nursing is fundamentally relational, and nursing research stems from an exchange between participants and researchers and indeed around the transaction of the patient and the nurse in the intersubjective space of clinical settings. Through the philosophical
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Implications of philosophical pragmatism for nursing: Comparison of different pragmatists Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Naoya Mayumi, Katsumasa Ota
Pragmatism emphasizes practical consequences and empirical explanations rather than introspective contemplations. However, the arguments of pragmatists are not uniform, as shown by the four prominent pragmatists presented in this article. The major difference between them is that Peirce and Haack acknowledge an objective truth, whereas James and Rorty do not. Thus, for a fuller understanding of the
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Philosophy in dialogue with contemporary nursing realities. Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Catherine Green
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Decolonizing nursing knowledge Nurs. Philos. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Peggy L. Chinn
This dialogue introduces the concepts of colonization and decolonization of nursing knowledge, the harms that have come from colonization, and the importance of engaging in the processes of decolonization as a means of achieving social justice and humanization for all. Specific options to decolonize nursing knowledge are discussed.