Nursing Philosophy

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    Neoliberal Rationality: A Primary Impetus for Reification and Derecognition of the Patient in Nursing Care.Mohamad Hamze Al-Chami - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70021.
    In this article, I discuss the implications of the neoliberal transformations on healthcare that are justified under the aegis of economic efficiency. Drawing on the work of German critical philosopher Axel Honneth, I present a critical‐social and philosophical perspective that reinterprets these transformations as pathological consequences with devastating impacts on how we understand what human beings and social relations are. I argue that in a neoliberal context, nursing care becomes a form of reification defined as ‘forgetfulness of recognition’ of the (...)
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    The Lesson of Sleeping Beauty: Person‐Centred Care for the Unconscious, Unresponsive ICU Patient in the Face of Levinas’ Radical Alterity.Theresa Clement, Peter Anna Zeillinger, Hanna Mayer & Brendan McCormack - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70022.
    The development of person‐centred practice is inextricably linked with the debate about being a person and personhood. This debate takes on a particular relevance when certain prerequisites, which are often used as defining characteristics of persons, can no longer be autonomously fulfilled. This is the case, for example, with intensive care patients who are often (temporarily) impaired in their responsiveness and consciousness due to their critical state of health. Due to sedation, severity of illness and loss of voice, delivery of (...)
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    Art of Caring Model for Emergency Care Patients and Professionals.Carina Elmqvist, Michaela Ivarsdotter & Anna Bratt - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70024.
    The Art of Caring model is developed from a general structure of the flow in the encounter between the injured patients and the different professionals within emergency care, in turn founded on four phenomenological essences, which encompass the experiences of patients, next of kin, and various professionals during the encounter at the scene of an accident and at the emergency department. The Art of Caring model represents a philosophical and theoretical rethinking of an ethical approach. It draws upon the works (...)
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    Introducing Vulnerability Theory for Nursing Research Concerning Infants in Out of Home Care.Rachel Gregory-Wilson, Liesel Spencer, Elizabeth Handsley & Toby Raeburn - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70023.
    Nurses often play crucial roles on teams involved in providing care to infants and families in the context of child protection services, making them well‐placed to research topics concerning these groups. Developed by North American legal scholar Martha Fineman in 2008, a contemporary macro‐legal‐political theory with potential to inform studies related to the nexus between healthcare and law is ‘vulnerability theory.’ Conceiving vulnerability as a universal, inevitable, and enduring aspect of the human condition, it contends that the onus is on (...)
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    Trust as a Solution to Human Vulnerability: Ethical Considerations on Trust in Care Robots.Mario Kropf - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70020.
    In the care sector, professionals face numerous challenges, such as a lack of resources, overloaded wards, physical and psychological strain, stressful constellations with patients and cooperation with medical professionals. Care robots are therefore increasingly being used to provide relief or to test new forms of interaction. However, this also raises the question of trust in these technical companions and the potential vulnerability to which these people then expose themselves. This article deals with an ethical analysis of the two concepts of (...)
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    The Loss of the Nurse as an Individual: Nursing, Well‐Being and Existentialism.Marci Kay Livingston & Stacy Manning - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70013.
    Research into how existentially aware nurses and nursing interventions have highlighted the benefits to patients and patient outcomes. Less is known about how existentially based training affects nurses themselves. This project sought to understand if and how a training programme developed to improve nurses' knowledge of existential theory would affect their well‐being. Overall, despite challenges to recruitment, follow‐up and data collection, three key themes were developed from the data: (1) Things Are Difficult, (2) We Need More… and (3) Well‐Being Is (...)
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    What Can Free Nursing Schools Do for Anarchism? A Reflection on “What Can Anarchism Do for Nursing ” by Martin and Laurin (2023).Simon Malfait - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70025.
    This is a response on the interesting read “What can anarchism do for nursing” by Martin and Laurin (2023), published in a previous issue of this journal. My foremost point is congratulating the authors on emphasizing the urgent need for a deviant voice or movement within nursing. It is a needed and necessary plea. Without such a voice or movement, which deviates from the current discourse(s) in healthcare, the future of our healthcare systems are looking grim and perhaps even more (...)
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    Nursing and Pluralism: The Work of Michel Serres.Graham McCaffrey - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70017.
    Nursing theory should reflect the pluralism inherent in nursing practice. Nurses routinely enact different kinds of knowledge in combination to achieve good nursing care. Nursing theoretical and philosophical literature includes many attempts to engage with epistemological pluralism. In this paper, concepts from the work of Michel Serres are introduced as a contribution to the resources available to think pluralistically about nursing. Serres' work is valuable because he is a pluralist thinker, who uses different conceptual tools to explore the complexity of (...)
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  9. On Alan Armstrong's ‘Towards a Strong Virtue Ethics for Nursing Practice’.Roger Newham - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (2):e70027.
    Armstrong's (2006) ‘Towards a strong virtue ethics for nursing practice’ is focused on how the practice of nursing necessitates morally good character traits as virtues including the intellectual virtue phronesis. Because of this, he claims, nursing ethics should also be grounded in virtue ethics. Illness creates a unique phenomenon that involves a special therapeutic as helping relationship necessitating good interpersonal skills and patient‐centred care that, for the role of a nurse and nursing ethics, requires a focus on persons and relationships, (...)
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    On Being Open in Closed Places: Vulnerability and Violence in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings.Cat Papastavrou Brooks, Isobel Johnston & Erinn Gilson - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70005.
    High levels of violence and conflict occur in inpatient psychiatric settings, causing a range of psychological and physical harms to both patients and staff. Drawing on critiques of vulnerability from the philosophical literature, this paper contends that staff's understanding of their relationship with patients (including how they should respond to violence and conflict) rests on the dominant, reductive account of vulnerability. This account frames vulnerability as an increased susceptibility to harm and so regards ‘invulnerable’ staff's responsibility to be protecting and (...)
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    Unravelling Uncertainty Inception: When We Really Know That We Don't Know?Lara Daniela Matos Cunha, Filipa Ventura, Márcia Pestana-Santos, Lurdes Lomba & Margarida Reis Santos - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70004.
    Through technical rationality, healthcare professionals address instrumental problems by applying the theory and technique arising from scientific knowledge. Nevertheless, the divergent situations of practice characterised by uncertainty, instability, and uniqueness place nurses in a positivist epistemological dilemma. Decision‐making under uncertainty is a challenge that nurses face in clinical practice daily. Nurses anticipate critical events based on the interaction between (un)known factors of clinical reasoning, putting uncertainty tolerance into perspective. With undeniable epistemological relevance, few nursing researchers have addressed this issue. Based (...)
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    Nursing as a Functional System of Society. A Systems Theoretical Perspective on Nursing and the Research Object of Nursing Science.Christopher Dietrich - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70014.
    The transformation of societies' age structures has intensified the need for nursing care, especially in economically developed regions of the world. This will necessitate societal decisions that determine how care needs are met in the long term. This article offers a sociological perspective on nursing care using Luhmann's systems theory. To make the designation of a functional nursing system with independent observation plausible, social changes were traced based on historical events, semantics, and other social structures to develop the primary view (...)
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    Health, Well‐Being, Gender, and Dignity in Nursing Care for Older Adults.Wendy Johana Gómez Domínguez, Helena Guerrero de Caballero & Lina María García Llanos - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70015.
    This article reflects on the concepts of health, well‐being, gender, and dignity when providing nursing care to older adults, focusing on their wisdom and the phenomena that can affect their health or improve their quality of life. These concepts are analyzed based on the current health conditions of older adults and their needs, on the perspectives of authors in this field of research, and on Patricia Benner's philosophy: the integration of science, clinical wisdom, and ethics in nursing practice. Furthermore, this (...)
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    Applying the Concept of Epistemic Injustice as a Philosophical Window to Examine Discrimination Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Migrants With Nurses.Roya Haghiri-Vijeh - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70007.
    Both stigma and discrimination, defined as a lack of knowledge of and a sense of discomfort in providing care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and + (LGBTQIA+) migrants, was found to manifest in a sample of LGBTQIA+ migrants who received nursing care in a recent study. The study concluded that nurses continue to have a limited understanding of the experiences of LGBTQIA+ migrants in the Canadian context, and that LGBTQIA+ migrants continue to have troubling 'care' experiences with nurses. (...)
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    Practices of Resistance and Nursing.Dave Holmes & Miriam Bender - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70010.
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    The Folk Concept of Nursing in Australia: A Decolonising Conceptual Analysis.Jacinta Mackay, Jordan Lee-Tory, Kylie Smith, Luke Molloy & Kathleen Clapham - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70012.
    This article presents a conceptual analysis of the contemporary understanding of NURSING in Australia and proposes strategies for decolonisation. Through historical reflection and the lens of cultural safety and critical race theory, it examines some conditions which make up this concept, including “Florence Nightingale‐influenced practices,” “intellectual practitioners,” and “whiteness in nursing.” This analysis aims to identify conditions which we take to be necessary for the folk concept of NURSING to be satisfied and which result in negative outcomes. The article explores (...)
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    To Our Nurse Friends: An Ode to Resistance.Patrick Martin & Annie-Claude Laurin - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70006.
    The concept of resistance in nursing has been garnering more interest in the last few years, with emerging focus on working conditions, power differentials in clinical settings, health inequities, and planetary health concerns. As a result, it's important to identify what is being resisted, and what is the purpose of the resistance carried out. In whatever way resistance is referenced in nursing, outright or not, it is our contention that it's in response to the same underlying cause, barring some local (...)
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    Deconstructing Professionalism as Code for White (Power): Authenticity as Resistance in Nursing.Katerina Melino, Blythe Bell & Kaija Freborg - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70002.
    The concept of professionalism is embedded into all aspects of nursing education and practice yet is rarely critically interrogated in nursing scholarship. This paper describes how professionalism in nursing is based on whiteness. When actualized, this oppressive construct homogenizes individuals' identities to assist nurses in building and wielding power against each other and against patients, and results in dehumanization and disconnection. Foregrounding an ethic of authenticity as a practice of resistance against white professionalism offers an alternative possibility for how nursing (...)
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    Exploring the Relevance of Indigenous Knowledges to Dementia Care in Nursing.Christine Meng & Helen Brown - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70018.
    In this paper, we engage in philosophical inquiry to consider the relevance of Indigenous Knowledges (IKs) for reimagining dementia care for individuals living with dementia. We outline the limitations of philosophical perspectives aligned with Eurocentric academic knowledge, arguing that such knowledge relies on an individualistic view of self and neglects the body and embodied experience in dementia care. We demonstrate how a personal diachronicity perspective diminishes the importance of valuing the fluid and dynamic self‐identities of persons living with dementia. We (...)
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    Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault's Lessons on Resistance for Nurses.Cristina Moreno-Mulet, Joaquín Valdivielso-Navarro, Margalida Miró-Bonet, Alba Carrero-Planells & Denise Gastaldo - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70008.
    In this paper, we bring together Foucault's biography and oeuvre to explore key concepts that support the analysis of nurses' acts of resistance. Foucault reflected on the power relations taking place in health services, making his contribution especially useful for the analysis of resistance in this context. Over three decades, he proposed a nonnormative philosophy while concomitantly engaging in transgressive practices guided by values such as human rights and social justice. Hence, Foucault's philosophy and public activism are an apparent contradiction, (...)
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    Seduction and Fidelity: Cunning and Power Relationships an Ethnographic Exploration in an Intensive Care Unit During the Covid‐19 Crisis.Bonneels Philippe - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70003.
    Sedufidelity—the contraction of seduction and fidelity—offers an interesting perspective for reflecting on the role of relationships and the ethics of care in highly technical healthcare settings. Understanding sedufidelity could help mitigate the observed social ruptures and promote a more humane approach to healthcare. However, challenges remain regarding its implementation, particularly in terms of building trust and loyalty towards management and healthcare policymakers. Furthermore, initiatives such as the ‘haie de déshonneur’ (‘hedge of dishonour’) can highlight the need and form of recognition (...)
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    Navigating Dementia and Delirium: Balancing Identity and Interests in Advance Directives.M. Rutenkröger - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e70016.
    The moral authority of advance directives (ADs) in the context of persons living with dementia (PLWD) has sparked a multifaceted debate, encompassing concerns such as authenticity and the appropriate involvement of caregivers. Dresser critiques ADs based on Parfit's account of numeric personal identity, using the often‐discussed case of a PLWD called Margo. She claims that dementia leads to a new manifestation of Margo emerging, which then contracts pneumonia. Dworkin proposes that critical interests, concerning one's higher moral values, trump experiential interests (...)
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    Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments.Allie Slemon, Vicky Bungay, Colleen Varcoe & Amélie Blanchet Garneau - 2025 - Nursing Philosophy 26 (1):e12508.
    Social justice is consistently upheld as a central value within the nursing profession, yet there are persistent inconsistencies in how this construct is conceptualized, further compounded by a lack of empirical inquiry into how nurses enact social justice in everyday practice. In the current context in which structural inequities are perpetuated throughout the health care system, and the emergency department in particular, it is crucial to understand how nurses understand and enact social justice as a disciplinary commitment. This research examines (...)
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