A Philosophical Pattern of the Spiraling Nursing Science and Practice: A ChapterReview

Philosophy of science, a science of science, helps us thrive in the full range of human knowledge. Currently, it is in several disciplines leading to a particular scientific endeavor, including nursing science where research practice is so young and determined after philosophical research. This review is intended to provide an overview of a variety of important philosophical questions in the field of nursing and nursing science to which philosophers in earlier times did not pay much attention

The characteristics of nursing and its intention to create a new discipline have raised many questions and debates in connection with philosophy of science. Throughout the history of the nursing research debate, scholars discussed and explained how these issues were addressed and how they interacted with positions in philosophy of science at the time. The philosophy of nursing science, as a result, has found consensus among nurse researchers on the features of nursing science that contemplate constitutive values, empirics, and ethical patterns of knowing in the discipline. Philosophically, the discipline should be united with its general rules and concepts so that the theory of middlerange theory is not necessarily linked to any particular grand theory. Similarly, the theory of middle-range theory and evidence-based practice should reflect the efforts of nurses’ scholars to make the science of nurses more explicitly relevant to experimental and nursing practice. Ultimately, this consensus calls into question the consensus on the structure of nursing theory and raises difficult questions about the unity of the discipline. The philosophy of nursing science therefore opens up new ways of thinking in subjects that are not based on theoretically oriented models of scientific research. To this end, the author achieved his scientific passion set in the chapter by combining several rhetorical and philosophical elements. It is easy to read and full of insights into nursing and philosophical issues in the field of nursing.

 

Author(s): Daniel Geleta

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