Philosophy In Nursing Research
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of science is the way in which a person views the world. Each view potentially brings forth a new paradigm. The doctorate of nursing practice graduate’s (DNP) viewpoint encompasses and uses multiple views. Every encounter made with patient, family, and care team enables the DNP to broaden and build their personal views, which then helps them apply the care back to the patient.
In nursing, one has to view every encounter with a holistic approach. To not only encompass a patient’s mind, body, and soul, but also the nurses’ beliefs and morals, the situation in which brought the patient to the nurse, and many more complex actions and thoughts that have taken place to bring the nurse and patient together. …show more content…
Nurses are required to have knowledge about so many different areas like, medicine, science, culture, and ethics, and the knowledge is drawn from a multifaceted base. Nursing knowledge can be classified into five types: personal practice, theoretical, procedural, cultural, and reflexive (Dahnke & Dreher, 2011). Nursing knowledge is what defines the “nurse” as a profession and gives the profession accountability. The DNP uses nursing knowledge about pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical diagnosis and interventions as well as current up to date treatments, methods, clinical norms, economic situations, and interpersonal relationship between patient and staff alike to deliver informed and educated decisions about care (Elbright, 2010). To apply the concept of critical thinking in practice to generate new practice knowledge, the DNP must possess the understanding of other concepts from both scientific and learned measures, such as inductive and deductive reasoning and nursing …show more content…
There is a serious lack of communication between each specialty, but entry form of complexity science each part still continues to function, what is lacking is a center. Some barriers of this has been the failure to recognize that driving forces for health outcomes differ with each specialty, and at the population level, access to care and appropriateness, and cost of care and inhibit a center core (Stange & Ferrer,
Philosophy of science is the way in which a person views the world. Each view potentially brings forth a new paradigm. The doctorate of nursing practice graduate’s (DNP) viewpoint encompasses and uses multiple views. Every encounter made with patient, family, and care team enables the DNP to broaden and build their personal views, which then helps them apply the care back to the patient.
In nursing, one has to view every encounter with a holistic approach. To not only encompass a patient’s mind, body, and soul, but also the nurses’ beliefs and morals, the situation in which brought the patient to the nurse, and many more complex actions and thoughts that have taken place to bring the nurse and patient together. …show more content…
Nurses are required to have knowledge about so many different areas like, medicine, science, culture, and ethics, and the knowledge is drawn from a multifaceted base. Nursing knowledge can be classified into five types: personal practice, theoretical, procedural, cultural, and reflexive (Dahnke & Dreher, 2011). Nursing knowledge is what defines the “nurse” as a profession and gives the profession accountability. The DNP uses nursing knowledge about pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical diagnosis and interventions as well as current up to date treatments, methods, clinical norms, economic situations, and interpersonal relationship between patient and staff alike to deliver informed and educated decisions about care (Elbright, 2010). To apply the concept of critical thinking in practice to generate new practice knowledge, the DNP must possess the understanding of other concepts from both scientific and learned measures, such as inductive and deductive reasoning and nursing …show more content…
There is a serious lack of communication between each specialty, but entry form of complexity science each part still continues to function, what is lacking is a center. Some barriers of this has been the failure to recognize that driving forces for health outcomes differ with each specialty, and at the population level, access to care and appropriateness, and cost of care and inhibit a center core (Stange & Ferrer,