Week One

1. Historical Overview
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2. Objectives
Historical, philosophical, ethical development and significance of conceptual
foundation of contemporary nursing.
• Identify the historical trajectory of the philosophy of nursing science
• Describe ethical developments of knowledge generation in nursing
Major philosophical approaches in conceptual/theory development and their
underlying assumptions
• Identify one of the major philosophical concepts foundational to nursing theory and practice
• List barriers and resources of nursing theory development

3. Kantian
Foundations in
Nursing Theory
Development

4. Philosophy of Science
• Hellenics-Aristotle: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις
• Enlightenment-Descartes
• Noumenon vs. Phenomenon-Kant
• Ding an sich
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5. Emmanuel Kant and “Reality”
• Refutes metaphysics as idealism
• Critical idealism/transcendental idealism transcend rationalism
• Dialectic critiques theoretical metaphysics and applied
understanding of concepts
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6. Dialectic
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7. Unreliability of Metaphysics
• Illusionary (conceptual metaphysics)
• Pseudoscientific/Pretentious (dogmatic metaphysics)
• No dialectical relationship (traditional metaphysics)
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8. Prolegomena
• Metaphysics are a priori
• Synthetical tensions
• Is metaphysics real?
• Synthetical a priori
• Limits of pure reason
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9. Kantian Methodology
• Critical in nature
• Dialectical intention and epistemology, logic and metaphysics
• New Methodology for Critical and Creative innovations in Social
Sciences and Sciences
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10. Barriers to Theory
Development

11. Theory Development
• Used to structure external knowledge from other disciplines.
• Assists with clarifying scope of practice.
• Uses an inductive and deductive knowledge development
framework.
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12. Barriers to Theory Development
• Human Barriers
• Knowledge Barriers
• Conceptual Barriers
• Evidenced-Based Practice (Research Enterprise) Barriers
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13. Human Barriers
• Emancipatory Ways of
Knowing
• Aesthetic
• Personal
• Ethical
• Empiric
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• Nurses as Nurses
• Different practice levels
• Functional orientation
• Practitioner’s orientation

14. Human Barriers
• Nurses as women
• History of gender discrimination
• Mainstream acceptance of nursing theory development
• Devaluation of nursing knowledge development
• Uncritical application of received view of theories
• Elevated status of evidence-based practice
• Overreliance of biomedical outcomes
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15. Human Barriers
• Nurses as theorists
• Clinical-research translation gap
• Marginalized internalization and enactment
• Theoretical primacy
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16. Knowledge Barriers
• Received view of science
• Tensions of borrowed theories
• Inappropriate use of theory
• Theoretical foundations of nursing practice
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17. Conceptual Barriers
• Cultural sources
• Environmental sources
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18. Resources to Theory
Development

19. Resources to Theory Development
• Human resources
• Knowledge as a force and resource
• Conceptual resources
• Other resources
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20. Human Resources
• Emancipatory Ways of
Knowing
• Aesthetic
• Personal
• Ethical
• Empiric
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21. Human Resources
• Nurses as women
• Operationalization of the feminine
• Critical empowerment
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22. Conceptual Resources
• The nature of nursing
• Refinement of nursing practice
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23. Other Resources
• Contemporary trends
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