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Nursing
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Nursing
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Nursing
Jonathan Bayuo, Anthony Kolsabilik Kuug
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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
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Nursing
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Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Erica Koopmans, Catharine Schiller
Summary: This article introduces the concept of critical realism and its application in healthcare, aiming to help healthcare providers and health science researchers better understand causation, even when the mechanisms behind it are often unseen.
QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
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Nursing
Annie-Claude Laurin, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, Jamie B. Smith, Brandon Brown, Patrick Martin, Emmanuel Christian Tedjasukmana
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NURSING PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Martin Camire, Fernando Santos, Tarkington Newman, Stewart Vella, Dany J. Macdonald, Michel Milistetd, Scott Pierce, Leisha Strachan
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Marja Ylonen, Terje Aven
Summary: Two fundamental philosophical concepts, ontology and epistemology, are applied in social science and risk science to understand reality and knowledge. This paper reconciles these concepts and presents a framework for studying risks, using contemporary knowledge from the Society for Risk Analysis. The framework is useful for theoretical and applied researchers studying risk.
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
(2023)
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Nursing
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Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth critical issues for nursing knowledge, prompting a reevaluation of traditional disciplinary theorizing. Nurses have the opportunity to create a more inclusive and just epistemology by liberating knowledge patterns and prioritizing emancipatory knowing. This will ultimately lead to justice in practice.
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Martin E. H. Willis
Summary: Qualitative researchers often turn to critical realism (CR) as a middle ground between positivism and strong constructionism. CR combines ontological realism and epistemological relativism. While there are two distinct approaches to CR, one specific to qualitative research and one as a general philosophy, they differ considerably on multiple dimensions, making Bhaskar's CR more suitable for qualitative research in psychology.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Rehabilitation
David A. Nicholls, Birgitte Ahlsen, Wenche Bjorbaekmo, Tone Dahl-Michelsen, Heidi Hoppner, Anna Ilona Rajala, Robert Richter, Louise Sogaard Hansen, Tobba Sudmann, Randi Sviland, Filip Maric
Summary: Critical physiotherapy has evolved into a professional sub-discipline over the past decade, with three distinct but interconnected critical positions emerging. These positions critique physiotherapy's historical approach to health and illness, offering new possibilities in practice and thinking. They align with philosophies that emphasize lived experience, social theory, and post-modern philosophies. This paper explores the origins, critiques, key principles, and potential future implications of these approaches, arguing that they offer exciting and opportune ways to rethink the future of the physiotherapy profession and physical therapies.
PHYSIOTHERAPY THEORY AND PRACTICE
(2023)
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Nursing
Karen Jenkins, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Sandra DeLuca
Summary: This paper advocates for an ontological and reflexive turn in first-year nursing education to help students pay more attention to nursing knowledge and become nursing professionals with a reflective mindset.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Giuseppe Scaratti, Silvia Ivaldi
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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
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Peter Beattie, Marguerite Beattie
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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Ethics
Annie-Claude Laurin, Patrick Martin
Summary: This paper reviews the theorization and application of care and care ethics in the nursing discipline, with a focus on Tronto's political view of care. It argues that Tronto's care ethics can help understand caring practices in a sociopolitical context and politicize nurses by encouraging critical thinking about their work environment and participation in changing the status quo.
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Nursing
Patrick Martin, Annie-Claude Laurin
Summary: The notion of mutual aid, introduced by Peter Kropotkin, challenges the idea of competition and emphasizes the importance of cooperation for the survival and thriving of a group. This concept is relevant, especially in the face of changing environments like the COVID-19 pandemic, and should be applied in healthcare systems, particularly in hospitals where nurses play a significant role. Anarchist philosophical principles, including mutual aid, can contribute to the improvement of healthcare institutions and the gradual shift away from competition and illegitimate authority.
NURSING PHILOSOPHY
(2023)