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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