bacNursing Philosophy
The philosophical views include analytical, continental, chaos, and complexity sciences.
Analytical
Analytical philosophy involves the use of a systematic approach similar to the scientific process, in answering questions.
It is considered a concept-based style of analysis. It focuses on reliability, causality, prediction, proof, and assumptions.
This type of philosophy can play an important role in nursing in that the approach is based on what has been tested and proven, so it offers validity.
Continental
Continental philosophy is a more recent approach and involves understanding human experience and how history influences the meaning and interpretation of these encounters.
Instead of this approach focusing on problems, it is associated with humanism, connectivity, and lived experiences.
This type of philosophy plays a huge role in nursing due to the ethical and moral aspects involved.
First, it allows nurses to be able to recognize, reflect, and act on moral responsibilities. Second, it allows the patients to feel empowered due to the connectivity they experience.
Chaos and Complexity in Nursing Philosophy
The chaos theory seeks to understand how things change in a sudden, unexpected, or irregular way.
The complexity theory focuses on more complex systems that involve numerous parts, which often leads to unexpected order. The outcomes for both are not easily predictable.
Generally, the outcomes of chaos are associated with “good health” when the dynamics become stable. For instance, heart disease, epilepsy, and hyperlipidemia are not things that can manifest quickly such as a broken bone, or sudden injury but instead happen over a period.
The importance of these to the nursing philosophy is that in a chaotic system, there may be few interacting parts, such as one nurse who provides home health services and is able to produce great results on their own.
In a complex system, each nurse interacts with others, which leads to collective behaviors that feed back into each individual nurse as they administer care.
Both systems are important to nursing and provide the principles of ethics, autonomy, efficiency, and of quality care in various settings.
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