Janice M. Brencick - Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care
Here you can read online Janice M. Brencick - Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2000, publisher: State University of New York Press, genre: Religion. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
Book:
Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care
Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Using the philosophical lens of universality and singularity in combination with nursing practice, Janice M. Brencick and Glenn A. Webster explore the complex relationship between science and technology, on the one hand, and the care of unique and complex individuals on the other. Through carefully crafted conversations between a nurse and many respected philosophers from Plato to Whitehead, the book reflects on spirituality, caring, and God or the One. The authors unique perspectives--Brencick is a nursing clinician; Webster, a philosopher--provide a profound and fascinating look at the modern health care system and a new vision for health care in the twenty-first century.
Janice M. Brencick: author's other books
Who wrote Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Philosophy of Nursing : A New Vision for Health Care
author
:
Brencick, Janice M.; Webster, Glenn A.
publisher
:
State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0791443809
print isbn13
:
9780791443804
ebook isbn13
:
9780585276427
language
:
English
subject
Nursing--Philosophy.
publication date
:
2000
lcc
:
RT84.5.B74 2000eb
ddc
:
610.73/01
subject
:
Nursing--Philosophy.
Page iii
Philosophy of Nursing
A New Vision for Health Care
Janice M. Brencick and Glenn A. Webster
Page iv
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
2000 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Production by Susan Geraghty Marketing by Anne Valentine
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brencick, Janice M. Philosophy of nursing : a new vision for health care / by Janice M. Brencick, Glenn A. Webster. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4379-5 hc: alk. paper.ISBN 0-7914-4380-9 pb: alk. paper 1. NursingPhilosophy. I. Webster, Glenn A. II. Title. RT84.5.B74 1999 610.73'01dc21 99-11409 CIP
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
To Tony Puopolo II who has the training of a physician and the heart of a nurse
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Narrative
11
Chapter 3 Universality and Singularity in Nursing Practice As Illuminated by Imaginary Discussions with Greek, Medieval, and Early Modern Philosophers
25
Chapter 4 Universality and Singularity in Nursing Practice As Illuminated by Imaginary Discussions with Modern and Contemporary Philosophers
77
Chapter 5 From Jean Watson's Theory of Caring to a Philosophy of Caring
127
Chapter 6 A Philosophy of Nursing
159
Chapter 7 Conclusion
199
Notes
207
Bibliography
229
Index
235
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Janice Brencick acknowledges the dedication and assistance of her original dissertation committee whose encouragement and support helped to make this book possible: Francelyn Reeder, Jean Watson, Sally Phillips, Denise Webster, and Mark Tanzer.
Page 1
Chapter 1 Introduction
Description of the Problem
Nursing makes use of knowledge from science and technology for healing the individual patient. Nursing is concerned with the relationship between universals, known through the sciences, and unique individuals, known by direct acquaintance. The problem for nursing is how to increase and apply its repertory of universals, while at the same time respecting the unique individuality of the patient and the unique individuality of each nursing occasion. Nursing gathers its generalizable knowledge from experience with unique individuals, from the sciences, and from other sources such as everyday nonscientific knowledge, yet nursing always returns to the individual for the application of its knowledge. Hence, nursing continually travels in a circle between universals and irreducibly unique individuals.
Extant nursing theories, largely derived from fields other than nursing practice, such as physics, anthropology, or cybernetics, are only partially successful in developing an adequate concept of nursing. There are at least two reasons for this.
First, because fields other than nursing practice are often tilted in the direction of universals. They are theoretical sciences interested in the generalizable. Consequently, they do not address the tension between the aspects of universality and singularity which are combined in every individual. This is because the sciences are not interested in singularity. Singularity, if it is addressed at all, is regarded as noise, spoiling the perfect replicability of experiments.
On the other hand, nursing practice is richer than the fields from which it draws some of its knowledge. Nursing practice embraces the totality of human experience from before birth through death in a most human and intimate manner. Because of the intimate relationship of nurse and patient, nurses are closely involved in the unique moments of human tragedy and human triumph. It is nurses at the patient's bedside who attend the patient at a time when the patient is most vulnerable, when the patient's needs are critical for survival. It is the nurse who attends the patient's needs in a manner that preserves the patient's dig-
Similar books «Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care»
Look at similar books to Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Reviews about «Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care»
Discussion, reviews of the book Philosophy of Nursing: A New Vision for Health Care and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
