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Jonathan Bayuo1, Hammoda Abu-Odah1, Jing Jing Su1
1School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Nursing Inquiry
|August 11, 2023
Summary
Technology is increasingly vital in nursing practice, education, and research. This study explores if technology meets criteria to be a nursing metaparadigm domain, suggesting it intersects with existing domains.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Technology Studies
- Philosophy of Science
Background:
- Technology is integral to modern nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
- Despite its centrality, technology has not been formally recognized as a metaparadigm domain within nursing.
- Existing nursing metaparadigms include person, health, environment, and nursing itself.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically evaluate whether technology fulfills the requirements of a distinct metaparadigm domain in nursing.
- To examine the onto-epistemological relationship between technology and nursing.
- To determine technology's potential as a recognized domain of inquiry within nursing.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of technology's characteristics against Fawcett's four requirements for a metaparadigm domain.
- Examination of the onto-epistemology of technology within the context of nursing.
- Literature review and conceptual analysis.
Main Results:
- Technology potentially represents a distinct domain intersecting with nursing, particularly from a humanities perspective.
- Technology exhibits characteristics such as encompassing phenomena of interest to nursing, perspective-neutrality, and international scope.
- Some nuances of technology's onto-epistemology do not align perfectly with established nursing frameworks.
Conclusions:
- Technology intersects with the established nursing metaparadigm domains (person, health, environment, nursing).
- Technology is positioned as a potential phenomenon of significant interest to the nursing discipline.
- Further research is required to fully articulate technology's position and role within nursing's theoretical framework.
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