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Reforming the practice of nurses: decolonization or getting out from under
A Huntington1, J Gilmour, A O'Connell
1School of Nursing, Health and Environmental Sciences, Wellington Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Journal of Advanced Nursing
|August 1, 1996
Summary
Nursing practice is influenced by various disciplines, potentially leading to subjugation. Challenging current knowledge allows nurses to embrace diversity and complexity in their practice, critiquing philosophical impacts.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Philosophy of Science
- Sociology of Professions
Background:
- Nursing practice is shaped by diverse disciplinary influences.
- These influences can lead to the subjugation and colonization of nursing as a discipline.
- Existing knowledge frameworks may limit the representation of nursing practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critique the impact of disciplinary discourses on nursing practice.
- To explore how philosophical traditions like modernism and postmodernism influence nursing.
- To advocate for reforming representations of nursing to embrace diversity, complexity, and ambiguity.
Main Methods:
- Critical analysis of disciplinary discourses impacting nursing.
- Examination of modernist and postmodernist philosophical traditions.
- Debating and challenging current developments in nursing knowledge.
Main Results:
- Disciplinary discourses can lead to the subjugation of nursing practice.
- Philosophical traditions (modernism, postmodernism) significantly impact nursing.
- Challenging existing knowledge offers opportunities for reform.
Conclusions:
- Reforming nursing practice requires challenging external disciplinary influences.
- Embracing diversity, complexity, and ambiguity enriches nursing representations.
- Critical philosophical inquiry is essential for advancing nursing.