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What is a theory
Aquired through philosophy + science
(Both informs truth)
Esse tual to examine knowledge and truth before theories
Is nursing a occupation or profession
Profession
What is an occupation
Job/career
Means of income
Values generally bot in training
Guided decision making
Employer holds accountability
What is a profession
Specialized knowledge base
Decisions guided by evidence/theoretical constructs
Formal training (school)
Ensures competency
Service to society
Ethics
Autonomy over practice
Nursing is both..
A profession and discipline
A profession must have
Determines who we are
A group of scholars that continually advance knowledge
- establish requirements
- promote practice standards
- quality assurance
- enforce standards and conduct
What is a discipline? What does it determine?
Describes out body of knowledge
Unique body of knowledge
(Person, environment, health, nursing)
- distinct prospective
- determine phenomena of interest
- determine context of phenomenon
- questions to ask
- what methods of study are used
- what evidence is proof
What phenomena defines nursing
Donaldson and Crowley
- Concern with principles and laws that govern life processes
- Concern with human behavior in interaction with environment in critical situations
- Concern with processes by which health is effected
A professional discipline needs
A focus statement
(Area of study + social relevance)
Caring for person, environment, health, nursing
+
Commitment to caring as moral imperative
What is philosophy
Abstract concept
Difficult to understand without context
A lens to look at world to derive meaning
Science
Ex. Sir Issac Newton
Concerned with causality (cause and effect)
Approach understanding reality (observation, verification, experience)
Hypothesis testing/experiment
Philosophy is concerned with?
Ex. Karl Marx (socialism, communism)
Purpose of life
Nature of reality
Nature of knowledge
Understanding by
- intuition, introspection, reasoning
Science process and product
Process
- research
- observe
- advance knowledge
Product
- knowledge
- explain phenomena and knowledge
Science branches
Natural (Chem, physics, bio)
Basic/pure (math, logic, chemistry)
Human/social science (psychology, anthropology, sociology, political, nursing)
Practice/applied science (architecture, engineering, med, pharmacology, nursing)
Science branches
Natural (Chem, physics, bio)
Basic/pure (math, logic, chemistry)
Human/social science (psychology, anthropology, sociology, political, nursing)
Practice/applied science (architecture, engineering, med, pharmacology, nursing)
Science branches
Natural (Chem, physics, bio)
Basic/pure (math, logic, chemistry)
Human/social science (psychology, anthropology, sociology, political, nursing)
Practice/applied science (architecture, engineering, med, pharmacology, nursing)
Philosophy aim
Compass to direct how theories are developed about phenomena and knowledge
Studies concepts that structure thought processes to reveal foundations of presuppositions
Does not aim to solve problems
Philosophy is concerned with
Nature of existence (metaphysics)
Nature of being (ontology)
Nature of knowledge (epistemology)
Morality (ethics)
Reasoning (logic)
Philosophy of science
Human purpose
Ontology
What is/ what exsists
Epistemology
Nature of knowledge
Philosophy is divided into which 2 groups
Rationalist (received view)
- empiricism
- positivism
- post-positiveism)
Relativism (precived view)
- phenomenology
- constructivist
- post-modern (feminist, post colonialism)
Received view
Universal truths exist and can be proven
Empiricism
Value observation by sence and verifiable experience
Truth observable
Reduction, control, bias-free science
Understanding parts to understand whole
Math equations and simple dichotomy
Relies heavily on instrumentation
Positivism (close to empiricism)
Complex into basic
Science is logical and empirical, value free, independent from scientist, objective measures
Goal of science to predict, control, explain
Facts can be measured with senses
Postpositivism
1960s scrutinized (too idealistic)
Research is value laden (research based on interest and values)
Focus on rigor, objective inquiry (recognizes contextual variables)
Perceived view
Knowledge from descriptions
No single truth
Belief in interpretation
(Ex. Study of human science)
Phenomenology
Seek to understand meaning of human experience
Seek to understand essence/experience and meaning
Core of experience similarities (ESSENCE)
(Ex. Human suffering, mental health)
Constructivist
Knowledge is subjective
Multiple interpretations of reality
Goal to understand how reality is constructed
Multiple truths
(Understanding pt. Unique reality)
Postmodernism
Dominate in nursing
Rejects single truth
Knowledge uncertain, contextual and relative
Post colonialism and feminist
Nursing philosophy
Multi paradigms
Nursing science vs nursing philosophy
Science
- inform nursing practice
- understanding
Philosophy
- establish meaning of science in nursing
- concepts, theories, laws
Nursing epistemology
Nurse knowledge of
- structure
- methods, pattern
- criteria for knowledge claims
Relied on multiple disciplines
Ways of knowing
(Schultz, Meleis)
1988
Clinical
Conceptual
Empirical
Clinical knowledge
Ways of knowing
(Schultz, Meleis)
Unblocking no tubes with fizzy drink
Warm water to take blood
Medical play
Conceptual knowledge
Ways of knowing
(Schultz, Meleis)
Beyond personal experience
Patterns from multiple situations
Concepts drafted and related to eachother
Relies on experience, curiosity, persistent
Impirical
Ways of knowing
(Schultz, Meleis)
Research
Justify actions
Credited by Judge
(Studies, systematic review, publishings)
Fundamental ways of knowing
Carpers 1978
Epirics, esthetic, personal, ethics
Shape nursing knowledge
Carper 1978
Empirics
Person, health, environment, nursing
Factual, objective, descriptive, classification
Carper 1978
Esthetics
Creative process of discovery
Direct feeling from experience
Relies on perception
EMPATHY
Carper 1978
Personal knowledge
Shapes values
Helps chose specialty that alignes with values
Most problematic
Hard to teach
Authentic relationship with pt
Carper 1978
Ethics
Questions what is abd isn’t important
Carper 1978 addition
Emancipatory knowledge (2011)
Uncovering injustice
Explore how some are less privileged
Propose ways to decrease oppression
Social Justice
Nursing was originally (1900s) modeled after?
Then in 1980s
Empiricism
Methodological battle spurring philosophical debate about nature of profession
(Beginning of importance of qualitative study)
Historical eras of nursing
Pg 8
window view theory
View you have depends on the lens you apply
what do you need to make a theory
meaningful
relevant
understandable
systematic explanation of an event where concepts are identified, relationships are proposed and predictions are made
creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that project a tentative purposeful and systematic view of a phenomena
set of interpretive assumptions principles or propositions that help explain a guide of action
theory definition
what do conceptual models and frameworks detail
a network of concepts and their relationships
ex: Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships
theories accompany the narrative by
providing an outlined description of all the components and the relationships
define concepts, relationships between concepts and assumptions of framework
Peplau’s Framework assumptions
nurse and pt can interact
both mature as apart of process
communication is a fundamental skill
nurses can understand themselves
significance of a theory
distinguish disciplines (nature, outcome and purpose of practice)
nursing theory helps
- distinguish
- assist in knowing pt needs
- provide templates to help nurses
Birth of nursing theory
nursing was largely under medicine
prescribed by others (relied on tradition)
idea behind nursing theory
articulate out ontology
provide moral/ethical structures
foster systematic thinking
nightingale
graduated 1851, served in Crimean war returned to London and made school for nurses first for nursing goals and practice defined nursing process - observe sick in environ - record observations - ways to promote healing nurses should control
in 1870s hospitals led my physicians and admin ( hadn’t changed much)
theory development in nursing
silent knowledge, received, subjective
silent knowledge (1860-1930)
- nurses trained in hospital by doctors
- focus on technical skills
- university believed to be over trained
Received knowledge (1940-1950s)
- listen to others
- shift to university
- nova scotia 1910 nurse licensing
subjective knowledge (1950s-1970s)
- sense of self
- research nurse focused
- iconic writing (Peplau)
Rebuttal of silence knowledge era
seen as radical thought for woman in 1904
1900 - teaching only
1901 - woman 13% of workforce, resign with marriage
1904 - attempt to fire woman from working