Quiz #1: Nursing as a profession and discipline & Thinking like a nurse- nursing process Flashcards
explain the mechanisms by which nursing can “lose it’s way”
-w/o a clear disciplinary orientation
-can be guided by hospital culture and pressure to conform to medicalized/clinicalized views of humanity
(A medical technical view of human experiences isn’t the same as a nursing unitary disciplinary world view)
What is nursing views of humanity based on?
-timeless values, a philosophical orientation to unity of mid, body, spirit, whole person health, caring-healing knowledge that sustains global humanity
What is the foundation for discipline specific knowledge
Theories and philosophies of science
-foundational philosophies, values and worldview transcend specific events and provide explanations that can reflect the ethical-philosophical foundation and value’s
What does the discipline of nursing help define
What counts as knowledge, how we pursue knowledge and values about what it means to be human
What do discipline specific approaches to knowledge address?
- What is the nature of the human healing experiance
- how to sustain human caring when threatened
- what is the relation between human-environment, global planetary health and science
List the essential aspects of nursing discipline
- Holds nursing to timeless values, heritage and knowledge developement
- holds and honors ontology of whole person: unity of mind, body, spirit and unitary world view
- adheres to nursing philosophical orientation towards humanity to sustain human caring-healing-health for all
- holds the theories, orientation toward knowledge, development and what counts as knowledge
- Expands science and medical epistemologies
- nursing research traditions, diverse approach to knowledge development
- Adresses diverse and innovative methodologies and methods consistent with human caring-healing-health-illness experiances
- grand, middle and specific theories to provide a shared evolved unitary world view ( where health is related to social-moral justice and the whole person and comes from connectedness)
What can having disciplinary knowledge lead to?
A professional identity and a clear visibility of the uniqueness of nursing knowledge
What could be a cause of the nursing profession no longer existing?
- no identity, disciplinary clarity and commitment to support and promote + lack of a unique nursing knowledge
- Without a discipline specific language to give voice to our role in society we will remain invisible and non-existent
What are the factors that have caused nursing to move away from its disciplinary roots?
- Economics
- Management science
- Technology
- Medicalization
- Hospital-based practice policies
What is kind of science is nursing….?
A distinct human caring healing-health science
What is the goal of the nursing (as a profession)
To provide service to human kind through the living art of science
Who is a (professional) nurse
People who have received a specialized nursing discipline education which is based on regulated, defined and monitored standards
What is the goal of nursing (as a discipline)
expand the knowledge about human experiences, there is a community of scholars
What is the function of the nursing knowledge generated by the disciplinary side of nursing and the community of scholars?
It is the scientific guide to living the art of nursing and provides the professions clear disciplinary orientation
Define the discipline of nursing
- The science of nursing: groups collectively accepted knowledge base, accepted methods of practice.
- ***Necessary for profession to remain
Define the profession of nursing
The living art of nursing science build on a disciplinary foundation
Define scholarship
Activities that systematically advance the teaching, research and practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry
Define quantitative research
Empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, math or computer techniques
Define qualitative research
exploratory to gain an understanding of reasons, opinions or motivations
define positivist research
an approach to the study of society that relies on scientific evidence to reveal the true nature of society
Define post-positivist research
Recognizes that all observation is fallible, has error and all theory is revisable
Define research methodology
How research is done scientifically and logically to solve a problem, help to understand the process and not jus the product of the research
What is critical thinking not?
- Simple
- step by step
- linear
- learnt over night
What is critical thinking?
- A process and set of skills
- use of knowledge + reasoning to make accurate clinical judgements
- the recognition of an issue, anaylize info, evaluate info, draw conclusions
- helps you realize what is important, any alternative solutions and ethical principles
- all for informed decision making
- context of situation
- involves the pt. in the decision
- can promote pt. centred care
- avoid standardized care
- with more experience, you come to recognize patterns of behaviour
- reflecting on experiance and knowledge
How can using evidence informed knowledge effect pt. outcomes and critical thinking
Improves pt. outcomes and improves critical thinking
What things need to be examined during critical thinking
- Ideas
- assumptions
- beliefs
- principles
- actions
- conclusions
- context of situation
What does critical thinking require?
- Cognitive skills
- Nurses disposition
- open minded, inquisitive, systematic
- well reasoned judgements
- more than problem solving: improves how you apply knowledge when faced with problems in pt. care
What are cognitive skills
Interpret, analyze, inference, evaluation, explanation and self regulation
What is a nurses disposition
To ask question, be informed, honest, unbiased, always reconsider issues
What are some nursing dispositions/ habits?
- Truth seeking
- Open mind
- Analyticity
- systematicity
- self-confidence
- inquisitiveness
- maturity
What is the outcome of critical thinking
nursing judgement that’s relevant to the nursing problem in a variety of settings