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2025, Journal of clinical nursing

2025, International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Circumstances shaped the decision to engage in a hermeneutics of self. In contrast to a common research approach, the researcher became the participant. The purpose of the research was to reveal interpretive meaning of that experience toward the view of becoming a global coworker. Philosophical insights informing the methodological approach and the analysis were drawn from Heidegger, Gadamer, and theological authors. Twelve people drawn from a variety of backgrounds were invited to interview the researcher following a 3-week field visit to explore HIV/AIDs in Malawi. Interviews were transcribed and analysis achieved through THREADs: Thinking Hermeneutically and Reflecting through the Experience, Asking questions while Dwelling in the everyday. For the researcher the experience was at times painful but deeply rewarding. The insights that emerged provide a mirror through which intending global coworkers can consider their own assumptions, values, and motivations. Such an approach is w...

2025, Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

This paper arose out of my seeking advice from Dr. David Jardine about hermeneutic writing. What follows, and what constitutes the body of our paper, is an email exchange that ranged over a great area of work—not only Dr. Jardine's own work in curriculum studies but the wide range of authors that have guided him and his reading of hermeneutics and how hermeneutics focuses on the territories or places that teaching and learning explore.

2025, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

The purpose of this paper is to explore nursing's historical legacy as a caring-healing profession, and the meaning, significance, and consequences of optimal healing environments for modern nursing practice, education and research. Described are the core foci of nursing as a discipline: what it means to be a person and experience personhood; the meaning of health at the individual, family, and societal levels; how environments create or diminish the potential for the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of well-being; and the caring-healing therapeutics of nursing. Each of these domains are described and discussed in the context of caring, healing environments. It is argued that caring and healing are phenomena difficult to confer or enact in isolation from one another. For nursing, embracing a caring-healing framework incorporates attending to the wholeness of humans in their everyday creation and sustenance of a meaningful life.

2025, International journal of nursing studies

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Rationale: Patients with advanced dementia experience multifaceted vulnerabilities because of their diminished capacities for decision making. The dominant versions of person-centred care (PCC) emphasise patient preferences and autonomy, which often undermines a recognition of their distinct unfulfilled needs. Determining whether an individual autonomy conception of personhood applies to patients with advanced dementia is morally problematic from various theoretical perspectives and leads to the one-approach-fits-all problem when caring for this patient population. Aims and Objectives: The availability of patients' advanced directives varies depending on their cultural backgrounds. The goal of the study is to argue that PCC, with a focus on relational autonomy, should be the first step for caring for patients with advanced dementia.

2025, Nursing Philosophy

The research presented in this work represents reflections in the light of Julia Kristeva's philosophy concerning empirical data drawn from research describing the everyday life of people dependent on ventilators. It also presents a qualitative and narrative methodological approach from a person-centred perspective. Most research on home ventilator treatment is biomedical. There are a few published studies describing the situation of people living at home on a ventilator but no previous publications have used the thoughts in Kristeva's philosophy applied to this topic from a caring science perspective. The paper also addresses what a life at home on a ventilator may be like and will hopefully add some new aspects to the discussion of philosophical issues in nursing and the very essence of care. Kristeva's philosophy embraces phenomena such as language, abjection, body, and love, allowing her writings to make a fruitful contribution to nursing philosophy in that they strengthen, expand, and deepen a caring perspective. Moreover, her writings about revolt having the power to create hope add an interesting aspect to the work of earlier philosophers and nursing theorists.

2025, Nursing Philosophy

Through its social and political activism goals, postcolonial feminist theoretical approaches not only focus on individual issues that affect health but encompass the examination of the complex interplay between neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and globalization, in mediating the health of non-Western immigrants and refugees. Postcolonial feminism holds the promise to influence nursing research and practice in the 21st century where health remains a goal to achieve and a commitment for humanity. This is especially relevant for nurses, who act as global citizens and as voices for the voiceless. The commitment of nursing to social justice must be further strengthened by relying on postcolonial theories to address issues of health inequities that arise from marginalization and racialization. In using postcolonial feminist theories, nurse researchers locate the inquiry process within a Gramscian philosophy of praxis that represents knowledge in action.

2025, Nursing Philosophy

In this post-9/11 era marked by religious and ethnic conflicts and the rise of cultural intolerance, ambiguities arising from the conflation of multiculturalism, sexism, and religious fundamentalism jeopardize the delivery of culturally safe nursing care to non-Western populations. This new social reality requires nurses to develop a heightened awareness of health issues pertaining to racism and ethnocentrism to provide culturally safe care to non-Western immigrants or refugees. Through the lens of post-colonial feminism, this paper explores the challenge of providing culturally safe nursing care in the context of the post-9/11 in Canadian healthcare settings. A critical appraisal of the literature demonstrates that post-colonial feminism, despite some limitations, remains a valuable theoretical perspective to apply in cultural nursing research and develop culturally safe nursing practice. Post-colonial feminism offers the analytical lens to understand how health, social and cultural context, race and gender intersect to impact on non-Western populations' health. However, an uncritical application of post-colonial feminism may not serve racialized men's and women's interests because of its essentialist risk. Post-colonial feminism must expand its epistemological assumptions to integrate Taylor's concept of identity and recognition and Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism and unfinalizability to explore non-Western populations' health issues and the context of nursing practice. This would strengthen the theoretical adequacy of post-colonial feminist approaches in unveiling the process of racialization that arises from the conflation of multiculturalism, sexism, and religious fundamentalism in Western healthcare settings.

2025, Journal of Clinical Nursing

Aim. The aim of this paper was to explore the issues surrounding the spirit of the unborn child.Background. Pregnancy and birth have been recognised to have a spiritual nature by women and health professionals caring for them. Midwives and nurses are expected to have a holistic approach to care. I suggest that for care to be truly holistic exploration is required of the spiritual nature of the unborn fetus.Methods. Historical, philosophical and religious views of the spirit of the fetus, are explored as well as those of women. Investigation was made of views of the timing of ‘ensoulment’.Results. The review demonstrates the value women place on the sacredness of pregnancy and birth, and that the spiritual nature of the unborn should be recognised.Conclusion. This paper shows that the views and values women have of pregnancy and birth and the powerful, spiritual relationship they have with the unborn, indicates that further discussion and research needs to be carried out in this...

2025, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Nursing

2025, Encyclopedia of Phenomenology

The use of ideas, methods, and concepts from
philosophical phenomenology by nonphilosophical
disciplines and practices
At its core, phenomenology is a philosophical
endeavor. Its task is not to expand the scope of our
empirical knowledge, but rather to step back and
investigate the fundamental structures, relations,
and capacities that are presupposed by any such
empirical investigation. Given the distinctly philosophical
nature of this venture, one might reasonably
wonder whether phenomenology can
offer anything of value to other disciplines. Can
it at all inform empirical work? However, there
can be no doubt about the answer to such questions.
Phenomenology has been a source of inspiration
for empirical science and the world beyond
academic philosophy from the very start. Experimental
psychology and psychiatry were among
the first disciplines to take inspiration from
Husserl’s call to attend to the phenomena. Already
in 1912, Karl Jaspers published a short article
outlining how psychiatry could profit from Husserlian
phenomenology, and in the
following decades prominent psychologists and
psychiatrists such as Katz, Schilder, Binswanger,
Straus, Buytendijik, and Minkowski all engaged
with phenomenology in their research and practice.
Since then, many other disciplines and practices,
including sociology, anthropology,
comparative literature, architecture, nursing, and
psychotherapy, have engaged with and drawn on
ideas from phenomenology. More recently, phenomenology
has also proven an important source
of inspiration for theoretical debates in qualitative
research, for embodied cognitive sciences, and for
disciplines such as disability studies and critical
race theory.
The applicability of phenomenology has been
part of its enduring appeal, but what exactly is
applied phenomenology, how does it differ from
non-applied or pure phenomenology, and what is
the best way to practice and use phenomenology
in a nonphilosophical context?
In the following overview, I will touch upon
some of the more principled questions that the
notion of applied phenomenology gives rise to, I
will provide a few examples of what I take to be
successful instances of applied phenomenology,
and I will briefly summarize some current controversies
and open questions.

2025, Midwives: Critical in Every Crisis

On 5 May 2025, midwives worldwide celebrate the International Day of the Midwife (IDM) under the theme: “Midwives: Critical in Every Crisis.” In the context of changing a role of a midwife the theme signifies the role of a midwife. The theme underscores the indispensable role midwives play in decision making in crisis preparedness, planning, and response.

2025, Subtle Energies Energy Medicine Journal Archives

Ours is a precious human life. It is so because we are gifted with capacities and possibilities unknown to any other species. Through our own efforts we can gain freedom from suffering and achieve a sustained wholeness, peace, love and joy that surpasses the understanding of an ordinary consciousness. With this achievement all effortS at healing come to an end as we have reached the quintessence of human life-a health and life divine of body, mind and spirit. Bur for this level of healing we must look beyond our remedies and therapies ro the second grear force of healing, the inner force, that can only be activated and mastered through a progressive expansion of consciousness. This is what the ancient healing traditions have always whispered to us if we would but listen. Their healing elixir is simple: larger consciousness, larger health, larger life. As individuals and practitioners, our personal healing, as well as our capacity ro assist others in thei[ own healing, is especially dependent upon our abiliry to access higher levels of consciousness and their naturally emergent qualities of wisdom, wholeness, peace, love and compassion. A vertical leap in consciousness, we discover, is both the ground of our being and the ground of our healing. To arrain such an uncommon health and life requires that we invest in the development of our inner life, our consciousness. Utilizing rhe many traditional contem• plative, meditative and other paths that have been left to us by the great sages we can each tap into this singular essence of all healing practices. It is an essence that transcends yet simulta neously infuses all of our manifold metbods with an expansive consciousness that is the great elixir and essence of all healing and simultaneously the source of a remarkable human f1ourishing-a completion and perfection of our humanity that is unknown ro ordinary awareness.

2025, Nurse Educator

tudent assignments often involve the application of theoretical models to practice in the clinical setting. Evaluating such an assignment was the issue that undergraduate community health nursing (CHN) faculty at a university in the Northwest decided to investigate. The CHN clinical faculty were concerned that community health students participated in community projects without understanding that their activities were population-based practice. To address a possible mismatch between what students learned in the classroom and their clinical experiences, the Minnesota Health Nursing Intervention Model (PHNIM) was adopted in 2001 and used to develop a clinical journal assignment. Among the earliest adopters of the PHNIM, the CHN faculty used the model as a theoretical framework to help students articulate the role of population-based CHN and to guide their clinical practice. Helping undergraduate CHN students identify and understand the ''full scope and breadth of public health nursing practice'' was considered a vital part of the clinical course. Figure illustrates the model. A literature search in CINAHL, Pro-Quest, and PubMed, using the search terms research, nursing student, and diaries, journals, logs, and care plans, revealed several studies evaluating student learning using reflective journals. However, there was no published research using student journal assignments to evaluate learning and application of a conceptual model. With an undergraduate teaching initiative grant from the university, we developed a study to evaluate an assignment that applied the PHNIM to determine how bachelor of science in nursing students used the model. We wanted to know the following:

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This paper presents the two opposing viewpoints for studying organizational culture and clarifies the lack they contain through understanding the philosophies encompassing them. We have verified that this discussion between the two perspectives is a discussion between positivists and interpretivists. We believe that critical realism philosophy provides a way out of the controversy by presenting its ontology that is characterized by structure, difference, and change and by standing against the reduction of ontology to, or its dissolution in, epistemology. This ensures both an in-depth study of the organizational culture and the develop sound contributions to theoretical development without overselling the notion of generalizability. In doing so, this article outlines Schein's three levels of analysis for studying organizational culture and framing it using critical realism philosophy.

2025, Journal of Nursing Scholarship

To define and describe the dimensions of Professional Labor Support (PLS). Design and Methods: A factor-analytic study was conducted with a random sample of 146 intrapartum nurses in Texas. Nurses' responses to the Labor Support... more

2025, Journal of Nursing Scholarship

2025, PubMed

Canadians' commitment to a publicly funded universal health-care system was re-affirmed when they went to the polls this past June and re-elected a government that they believed would preserve the current system and prevent the creation of a two-tiered system: one for the rich and the one for the rest of society. Despite widespread discontentment with the current system, Canadians voted in a minority Liberal government, sending a powerful message to Ottawa that they wanted their "broken" but beloved health-care system fixed.All was not right, but they were not ready to give up -not just yet. Since the introduction of medicare almost 40 years ago, there have been many attempts to erode its principles, among which is equal access for all.While acknowledging the weaknesses in the system, nurses and nursing organizations have consistently advocated for and supported medicare. Nurses have never wavered in their support for the principles of the Canada Health Act despite the incredibly harsh conditions under which they have laboured. The past decade has been brutal to nursing.The system under which nurses work has not been as generous, supportive, committed, and loyal to them as nurses have been to it. It is well documented that nurses have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden wrought by financial cuts, downsizing, and mergers. Nurses have been marginalized, de-professionalized, and demoralized.They have endured abuses and working conditions that few other health professionals have had to face.They have paid dearly with their own health, frozen and lost wages, elimination of jobs, a decimated leadership structure, working conditions that border on the inhumane, loss of status, workplace violence and abuse, shortages, recruitment and retention difficulties -the list goes on.And yet despite the deplorable working conditions under which they care for patients and their families, nurses have remained steadfast in their support of a single-tiered, nationally funded health-care system.The question is why. Are nurses masochists? Angels? Paralyzed? Why have nursing organizations not advocated for a return to privately funded health care?

2025, Revista Temas Em Educacao

Esse estudo discute a respeito das funções do Ensino Superior, a partir da proposta da racionalidade comunicativa, de Jürgen Habermas. Para isso, reflete sobre as bases do Ensino Superior na atualidade, que se ancoram na racionalidade técnico-instrumental, sem levar em conta, muitas vezes, outras racionalidades que fazem parte do mundo da vida. Nesse contexto de produção de ciência dentro dessas instituições, fica evidente a marcada distinção entre o conhecimento científico e outros conhecimentos. Entende-se que o Ensino Superior, com base nas racionalidades epistemológica, estratégica, teleológica e comunicativa, deve contribuir para ampliar a competência linguístico-comunicativa de sujeitos, tendo em vista o desenvolvimento das capacidades de falar e de agir. Espera-se com este artigo promover um debate sobre como a teoria do agir comunicativo pode suscitar à educação uma dimensão crítico-reflexiva em relação ao tipo de razão que as universidades devem promover em seu espaço acadêmico.

2025, Journal Action Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research

This editorial argues that experimental action research is more suitable than randomized controlled experimental research for social sciences, nursing, midwifery practice, behavioral, health and humanities. Drawing upon philosophical and methodological perspectives from Guba (1981), Lincoln and Guba (1985), Habermas (1987), Gunbayi and Sorm (2018), Whitehead and Schneider (2013), and Gunbayi (2020a, b), this article critiques the positivist paradigm underlying randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and advocates for action research as a more contextually relevant, participatory, and ethically sound approach. The discussion is grounded in an analysis of mixed methods research, social paradigms, and knowledge-constitutive interests, supporting the claim that experimental action research better aligns with the complexities of human-centric disciplines.

2025, Journal of Innovative Research in Teacher

This study aims to compare the structural features and program contents of educational administration doctoral programs in Türkiye and Canada, both of which are ranked among the top 1000 universities in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) list. This study is an example of comparative educational research as it aims to identify, compare, and analyze similar and different characteristics of the selected doctoral programs in Canada and Türkiye. The study sample consists of six universities, three from Türkiye (n=3) and three from Canada (n=3), selected by the stratified purposeful sampling method and positioned at different points in the ARWU ranking system. Therefore, the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, and the University of Saskatchewan from Canada; and Hacettepe University, Ankara University, and Ege University from Türkiye, formed the study sample. The data was collected through the document analysis method and analyzed using the descriptive analysis method. Firstly, online information and documents were obtained from the official websites and graduate admission units of the doctoral programs at the selected universities. Secondly, the selected doctoral programs in Türkiye and Canada were analyzed by comparing their admission requirements, degree requirements, and offered academic courses. The results revealed similarities and important differences between the selected doctoral programs in the two countries. Considering educational administration doctoral programs at the top-ranked Canadian universities, this study suggests potential innovations that could be implemented to establish successful and outstanding educational administration doctoral programs in Turkish universities.

2025, Nurse Education Today

2025, Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals

Although a widely used concept in health care, person-centred care remains somewhat ambiguous. In the field of palliative care, person-centred care is considered a historically distinct ideal and yet there continues to be a dearth of conceptual clarity. Person-centred care is also challenged by the pull of standardization that characterizes much of health service delivery. The conceptual ambiguity becomes especially problematic in contemporary pluralistic societies, particularly in the light of continued inequities in healthcare access and disparities in health outcomes. Our aim was to explicate premises and underlying assumptions regarding person-centred care in the context of palliative care with an attempt to bridge the apparently competing agendas of individualization versus standardization, and individuals versus populations. By positioning person-centredness in relation to the hermeneutics of the self according to Paul Ricœur, dialectics between individualization and standardi...

2025, Journal of Nursing Education

This conceptual article, drawn from the authors’ shared teaching experiences and recent student and clinician evaluation data, set out to reveal and then address some common problems faced by clinical educators and nursing students in the time-constrained, complex, specialized field of clinical learning. We explain and argue the benefits of transformative learning and outline specific strategies for building skills in transformative education, such as interrogating clinical routines and habits, teaching diplomacy skills, and using a process of interruption. Clinical educators can use these strategies to move beyond unwittingly serving the status quo toward consciously contributing to change. AUTHORS Received: July 28, 2005 Accepted: November 11, 2005 Dr. McAllister is Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Science, Health, and Education, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. Ms. Tower is Lecturer, and Ms. Walker is Clini...

2025, The Australian journal of advanced nursing : a quarterly publication of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation

This paper examines and critically reflects on a recent curriculum evaluation that took place in 1999 within a school of nursing. Critical theory, and in particular action research, was chosen as an approach for the research. The method aimed to foster participation and reveal and problematise aspects of nursing education which had become taken for granted. Through the process of action research a number of tensions and challenges were revealed. The exposed tensions and challenges are discussed and reframed so that they offer potential for renewed commitment to nursing education, rather than continued constraint and conformity.

2025, Nurse Education Today

This paper aims to provide an informative discussion with underpinning rationales about the use of a problem-based learning (PBL) classroom model, supported by a structured process for undertaking PBL. PBL was implemented as a main... more

2025, British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)

The aim of this article is to provide a greater understanding of the term 'trust in relation to the nurse-patient relationship through the use of Rodgers' concept analysis framework. The concept of trust is of particular interest to nursing as it has been identified as an important element in the nurse-patient relationship; however, the concept is loosely used in everyday discourse with confusion apparent and the true meaning of the concept of trust unclear. Patients' trust in the nursing profession cannot be taken for granted simply due to a requirement for nursing care. This article describes and examines the attributes, antecedents and consequences of trust in nurse-patient relationships in order to clarify the meaning and improve the current nursing knowledge base.

2025, Nurse Education in Practice

Aims and objectives: This article aims to clarify the concept of ''holism'' in nursing through the use of Rodgers . Concept analysis and the development of nursing knowledge; the evolutionary cycle. Journal of Advanced Nursing 14, 330-335] concept analysis framework. Background: The primary author is employed in a urology department which cares for many clients with end stage cancer. Holistic nursing practice is the philosophy of the unit, however many nurses struggle to articulate what holistic practice actually means to them, hence this analysis was deemed very pertinent to practicing nurses to enable the realization of nurses therapeutic potential when caring for patients in practice. Method: Rodgers (1989) well-established method of concept analysis was employed to facilitate the clarification of the concept of holistic nursing practice. Relevance to clinical practice: The clarification of the concept offered a working definition of holistic nursing practice which practicing nurses can clearly comprehend and avail of when caring for patients of all race, religion and creed in the clinical practice area. Conclusion: By undertaking this methodology of concept analysis the integrity of the concept was kept intact. The factors that influence holistic nursing practice were identified and a model case demonstrated the reality of holistic nursing care for practicing nurses.

2025, European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Background: The concept of 'positive thinking' emerged in cancer care in the 1990s. The usefulness of this approach in cancer care is under increasing scrutiny with existing research, definitions and approaches debated. Nurses may wish to judiciously examine the debate in context and consider its relevance in relation to their experience and clinical practice. Purpose: To offer a constructivist perspective on 'being positive' we extract data from a constructivist grounded theory study on humour in healthcare interactions in order to identify implications for practice and future research. Methods: We offer three areas for consideration. First, we briefly review the emergence of 'positive thinking' within cancer care. Second, we present data from a grounded theory study on humour in healthcare interactions to highlight the prevalence of this discourse in cancer care and its contested domains. We conclude with implications for practice and future research. Findings: Patients actively seek meaningful and therapeutic interactions with healthcare staff and 'being positive' may be part of that process. Being positive has multiple meanings at different time-points for different people at different stages of their cancer journey. Patients may become ensnared by positivity through its uncritical acceptance and enactment. Conclusion: Positive thinking does not exist in isolation but as part of a complex, dynamic, multi-faceted patient persona enacted to varying degrees in situated healthcare interactions. Nurses need to be aware of the potential multiplicity of meanings in interactions and be able (and willing) to respond appropriately.

2025, Public Health Nursing

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Existing healthcare treatments and services for people living with serious mental illness pose a challenge for both the service provider and the recipient of care. While recovery oriented care is a priority, many healthcare practices and contextual factors pose a barrier to recovery. This study augments our awareness of the authentic lifeworld of people living with serious mental illness with the aim of gaining insights that can be used to develop healthcare practices which support recovery. This study explored the subjective experiences of people living with SMI as they expressed them through cocreative songwriting. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis based in the philosophical groundwork of Heidegger and Gadamer, a thematic representation of the lifeworld of people living with SMI was developed. The findings are described in three parts: becoming broken, becoming whole and experiencing the lifeworld as transformed. Becoming broken is explored in four themes including f...

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Dr. Eliabeth Lindsey for her careful reading of this document and her thought-provoking questions. I would also like to thank the students for their honesty and willingness to share. .

2024, AJN, American Journal of Nursing

2024, Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad/Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad

Resumen: el presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar críticamente la idea de la deshumanización del cuidado de enfermería debido a la creciente tecnologización y tecnificación. Para examinar esta afirmación se propone un análisis filosófico de los conceptos de técnica, tecnología, cuidado de enfermería y deshumanización, estableciendo tres ejes temáticos: la deshumanización del cuidado, el cuidado y la técnica como concepción ontológica de lo humano. Se parte de referentes filosóficos de la técnica, en especial, la fábula de Higinio en la obra de Heidegger, quien ofrece una interpretación que busca integrar la técnica y el cuidado como parte de una ontología simbiótica. Como conclusión se destaca que la técnica y el cuidado no son conceptos opuestos: por el contrario, ambos son constitutivos de la naturaleza humana, por lo tanto, culpar exclusivamente a la técnica y a la tecnología de la deshumanización resulta ciertamente contradictorio.

2024, Revista Temas Em Educacao

2024, Nurse Education Today

2024, Nursing Philosophy

The term “Socratic method” is so pervasive in education across the disciplines that it has largely lost its meaning, and it has lost its roots in its originator—the historical Socrates. In this article we draw from the original source, Plato's ancient dialogues, to understand the theory and principles behind the questioning used in Socratic method. A deep understanding of Socratic method is particularly timely now as nursing leaders call for increased use of theory‐based debriefing across the nursing curriculum. Socratic questioning is ideally suited as a method for debriefing in nursing classrooms because of its ability to enhance critical thinking and self‐reflection of the learner and because of its basis in care for the learner through a learner‐centred design. We present an analysis of the Socratic method in Plato's works and provide an overview of the key Socratic principles and techniques. We illustrate these principles and techniques with examples of how Socratic tea...

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• To understand the value of Socratic pedagogy to serve as a catalyst to build nurses' critical and creative thinking skills and situational awareness • To grasp the fundamentals of Socratic pedagogyquestioning and metacognition • To practice Socratic questioning and role-modeling for use in clinical instruction settings • To discuss opportunities for metacognitive reflections from nursing students and new nurses • What image do you have of Socrates? • Historical Socrates -a teacher before all else in his life. • Tried, convicted, and executed for corrupting the youth. • The character of Socrates in Plato's works = model teacher.

2024, Journal of Holistic Nursing

2024, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

The aim of this study was to clarify the role of aesthetics in the organization and motivation of care through history. The guiding questions were: What values and aesthetic feelings have supported and motivated pre-professional and professional care? and Based on what structures has pre-professional and professional care been historically socialized? Primary and secondary sources were consulted, selected according to established criteria with a view to avoiding search and selection bias. Data analysis was guided by the categories: "habitus" and "logical conformism". It was found that the relation between social structures and pre-professionals (motherhood, religiosity) and professional aesthetic standards (professionalism, technologism) of care through history is evidenced in the caregiving activity of the functional unit, in the functional framework and the functional element. In conclusion, in social structures, through the socialization process, "logical...

2024, Journal of Critical Realism

Academic writings-writings that take place in academic settings, rom undergraduate essays to research monographs-are social practices and methods o knowledge enquiry. In virtue o being social and epistemic, they should be o concern to critical realists because o critical realism's stratied approach to reality. By critiquing approaches to academic writing that can atten reality, I propose that i academic writings were understood as ontologically stratied social practices, they could aord writers the rational judgement to make textual choices. Specically, I show there is the possibility to produce discourse that is dierent rom standardized 'objective' and 'transparent' academic prose, which, inter alia, also has colonial roots. I academic writings were understood ontologically and epistemologically as practices and methods o enquiry that require writers (i.e. agents) to rationally judge what orm their texts should take, this could urther academic writing's educative and emancipatory purpose o advancing knowledge and justice.