26- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-769x.2004.00191.x
Nursing theories as nursing ontologies.
- Sep 22, 2004
- Nursing Philosophy
- Don Flaming
Abstract
By understanding the constructions of knowledge we currently label nursing theories as nursing ontologies, nurses can perceive these conceptualizations differently. Paul Ricoeur and Stephen White offer a conceptualization of ontology that differs from traditional, realist perspectives because they assume that a person's experience of a phenomenon (e.g., nursing) will change, but also maintain some stability. Discussing nursing ontologies, rather than nursing theories, might increase philosophy's status in nursing and may also more accurately reflect the experience of being a nurse.
- # Philosophy's Status
- # Realist Perspectives
- # Paul Ricoeur
- # Person's Experience
- # Stephen White
- # Constructions Of Knowledge
