Philosophical Issues in Nursing

ISBN-13: 9780333672105 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 216 str.

Steven Edwards

Opis

Discussions in the major journals of nursing research and scholarship reveal that, increasingly, nurses are turning to philosophy in their efforts to provide secure theoretical foundations between philosophy and nursing. Philosophical concepts and problems essential to nursing are discussed in this book, in ways which make plain their importance to nursing practice. Issues examined include: the nature of nursing and nursing knowledge; the conceptual foundations of nursing; philosophy and the nurse curriculum; and the self in nursing.

Spis treści

PART 1: NURSING PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE The Shift from the Closed to the Open Body Ramifications for Nursing Testimony; J.Liaschenko; Traditions and Practice; K.Cash; Change in Nursing; T.Hussey.- PART 2: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS Holism in Nursing; S.Woods; Positivism as a Method in Nursing Research; S.D.Edwards; Towards a Credible Theory of Mind for Nursing; E.Lepper.- PART 3: THE NURSE CURRICULUM Heidegger and the Nursing Curriculum; S.Horrocks; 'The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living'; J.Holt.- PART 4: THE SELF IN NURSING The Self; P.Dawson; The Self and Compulsory Treatment; P.Ross.

O autorze

Steven D Edwards RMN, BA(Hons), MPhil, PhD is a Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, the University of Wales at Swansea