Fundamentals of Philosophy in Nursing Care and Epistemology

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of nursing care and its epistemology, examining it through various dimensions. It delves into the historical context, tracing the evolution of nursing practices and beliefs, particularly highlighting the influence of Florence Nightingale and the impact of globalization. The theoretical dimension is explored through nursing theories, emphasizing the integration of scientific and social values. The philosophical dimension is discussed, focusing on the human-being definition and its implications for care. The spiritual dimension is addressed, emphasizing the importance of considering patients' beliefs and values. Finally, nursing as a social practice is analyzed, highlighting the role of nurses' actions and attitudes in delivering care and managing care provisions systematically. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of integrating these dimensions to promote humanity, harmony, integrity, and holiness in nursing research and practice.

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Fundamentals of Philosophy in Nursing
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9/20/2019

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There is the relation between epistemology of nursing care and nursing theoretical,
philosophical, and historical base, not only as the profession, however as the continually
embryonic science, fulfilled by the acknowledged logical research practices as scientific
practices of support officially identified within area of health Science (Rouleau, et. al, 2017).
The main purpose of this paper is to reflect nursing care as well as epistemology from
theoretical, spiritual, historical, philosophical dimensions and social practice.
With the development of scientific facts derived from various generations, the person
develops and cares followed close-behind. Therefore, the life of human has been addressed
and continuously incorporated the knowledge. In modern time, the nursing developments are
based on numerous Florence Nightingale beliefs. The recent period is considerably featured
by globalization. Furthermore, the theoretical dimension can be stated by the theories. It is
considered a theoretical model from regulated elaboration, like nursing theories targeting at
the management of the nursing as the science. As per theoretical assumptions, nursing is a
basic thing to add the scientific values along with social values to the knowledge as well as
the know-how. These assumptions include capacitating cares in various conditions as per its
characteristics. These assumptions contribute to the particular understanding with different
health science (Hanse, et. al, 2016).
The philosophical dimension of caring for some authors passes over an
anthropological problem, which troubles people from old time; a definition of human-being.
The answer to this question varies according to each person's worldview as well as academic,
social, and experiences background. Thus, this is impossible to think about care as only
theorizing above practices, neither for describing it as a simple arrangement in itself. The
reason is that the conditions show structural expression, which is defined in an immanent

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manner. Additionally, the spiritual dimension of care has discovered in various researches in
the twenty-first century. It is determined by the organisational assessment program that the
hospital should fulfil some spiritual requirements of human beings for earning official
approval. Consequently, while creating a nursing history of the patient and his family, it is
required by the nurse to look for data on the beliefs, life-related principles as well as spiritual
values (Bruyneel, et. al, 2015).
Moreover, nursing as the social practice must be considered as the actions of nurses
and attitude of nurses. The care provisions become the objective. They sustain the works
within the procedure of health care. The essence of work of a nurse is to know the care as the
aim of nursing, as fulfilling daily targets increase the moral actions and logical principles
systematically that composes the social practices. Thus, nursing has been developed as a
social practice. The nursing manages as well as plans the care provision as the social practice
(Edvardsson, Watt & Pearce, 2017).
In conclusion, based on assumptions, it is required to consider the nursing care as well
as epistemology from the philosophical, theoretical, and spiritual, along with historical,
dimensions and as the social practice. It is also recommended to rescue the humanity,
harmony, integrity, and holiness in research as well as practices of personality and
community’s care. It is familiar to incorporate epistemology of nursing care.

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