TFN Flashcards
Nursing as a Profession?
specialized knowledge base, altruistic services, formal training of higher educ, credentialing, code of ethics, control authority over traning
Nursing as an Academic Discipline ?
Branch of educational instruction/ deparfment of learning
- Basic sciences?
- Humanities?
- Professional discipline?
- Applied science?
- physics, biology, chemistry, sociology, anthropology
- philosophy, ethics, history , fine arts
- Law, medicine, nursing.
- engineering, architecture, medicines pharmacology
Science and Philosophy in Nursing, science is what? philosophy is what?
science? concerned with cause and effect the scientific approach are observation.
philosophy? is concerned with purpose of human life, and nature of reality, theories and limitations.
Philosophy
- Study of problems that are ultimate, abstract, and general.
- Concerned with the nature of existence, human purpose, reason, morality, and knowledge.
Philosophy of science?
study science and scientific practice
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Metaphysics
study of fundamental reality of existence
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Ontology?
Study of theory of being.
(what is or what exist) purpose
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Cosmology?
Study of physical universe
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Logic?
Principles and methods of reasoning
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Political philosophy?
Study of citizen and state
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Ethics (axiology)?
right and wrong, moral philosophy
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Esthetics?
study of arts. beautiful things, aesthetic.
KINDS OF PHILOSOPHY: Epistemology?
study of knowledge
ways of knowing, nature of truth, and relationship between knowledge and belief.
KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT AND NURSING SCIENCE
purpose is to improve the nursing practices
Epistemology
study of theory of knowledge, ways of knowing
Methodology
means of acquiring knowledge.
Empirics
comes from observation, testing, replication. medical care
Personal Knowledge
person’s thoughts and knowledge from experience
Intuitive Knowledge
feeling and hunches, relies on nonconscious pattern recognition and also experience.
Somatic knowledge
knowledge in the body in relation of movements
Metaphysical ( Spiritual Knowledge)
Seeking the presence of high power. Aspects of spiritual knowing include magic, miracles, near-death experiences.
Moral/Ethical Knowledge-
Knowledge of what is right and wrong
Esthetics
related to beauty
NURSING EPISTEMOLOGY
origin of nursing knowledge
Clinical knowledge
individual nurse’s personal knowledge
Conceptual knowledge
uses knowledge from nursing and other disciplines
Empirical Knowledge
NURSING PRACTICES YOU DO AND EXPLAINED
Esthetic knowledge
Includes sensing the meaning of a moment. empathy to a patient, the attitude of the nurse in the patient, connections
Personal Knowledge
nurses view themselves and the client
ETHICS
Moral code of nursing, norms.
NURSING PHILOSOPHY
value, beliefs, ethics, and motivation for their profession
NURSING SCIENCE
Development of theory, improving the practical concepts of clinical care and conditions.
Grand theory ( macro-theory )
Broad/global concept of theory. addressing the patient/person, health, environment, nursing.