Knowledge Development In Nursing

experience training in breast feeding has been somewhat of a hot take in the to a greater extent scholastic endeavors of the profession for quite some time. As the profession grew from a focus centered on treating physical symptoms and conditions to a more well-rounded approach that considered psychological, social, and spiritual subscribes in assenting to physical illness, the need to break down the process of fellowship development arose.By utilizing nursing theories, which support the give of evidenced based practice in most cases, it seems as though the profession of nursing readyed more credibility in the scientific community as far as the set of the fellowship produced I feel that utilizing processes akin to those already accepted as prudent by more established scientific fields helped progress to that credibility.In order to get to nursing theories, however, the process had to begin with a philosophical component that freighter allow for a separation from concret e/ scientific knowledge, among other things, in order to promote more abstract concepts and different methods to look at how we come to that knowledge. McCurry (2009) touches on this premise as she describes how a common theme, in this case the common good of society, fundament be looked at from many different perspectives, as it creates an arna in which those perspectives drive out be arranged to determine how to go ab bug out investigating the perspectives further.Although it wasnt the center piece of the article, one highlight was a breakdown of how more abstract thoughts can be linked to the application of intentional actions by the use of theories, which stems from philosophical questions. Philosophy lays the ground work for knowledge work to be built upon. In a modal value, Kim (1999) echoed these sentiments as she discusses critical musing inquiry and its applications in relation to pain management in a South Korean hospital setting.She admits that nursing has situatio ns in which our therapeutic actions can be supported by one theory and conflicted by another. What it seemed to re-enforce was how our depend upon to answer the philosophical questions created by the issues we wish to address can use various forms to achieve that common goal, however, those that are centered around the military rank of how our therapeutic actions actually pan out versus how we think they pan out will help us gain the most useful knowledge as long as we are able to recognize the need for, and benefit of, changes that help our patients out the most.We wouldnt be able to gain the knowledge that specific actions and changes are therapeutically beneficial without understanding wherefore we wanted to make changes in the first place, and generating multiple attempts at do those changes to see which ones actually compassed the goal would seemingly allow us to commence the best chance at achieving what we set out to.Evaluating the nursing interventions we utilize to af fect our patients for the better is important, we all know that. Abbott (1988) pointed out that although nursing is capable of evaluating our interventions in practice, we do not tend to emphasize the grandeur of breaking down specific practical interventions in an abstract way that allows for our ability to link the interventions we utilize to the thought processes behind it while we are out practicing our craft.This I can personally continue to, when considering how the first mates years of my personal practice was spent learning how to simply accomplish the tasks I was presented with in the time frame I was to accomplish them in (assessment, documenting, intervening, documenting, evaluating, intervening, documenting, documenting, documentingugh). I knew that there was good reason behind the things I was doing however, I was not keenly aware of the concepts and philosophies that comprised that reasoning, I was simply focused on completing my tasks in a timely, safe fashion.Reed (2006) promotes the idea that nurses tend not to have a full understanding of the why we do the things we do, and went so far as to say that there might be a level of mysticism when it comes to the healing processes we are engaged in. That mysticism was fundamentally summed up by purporting that when we cant put our finger on the why we do what we do, we fall back on concepts like intuition and gut feelings. Its not to say that we are incorrect in our intuitions, however, we dont have a strong link to the rationale behind it all the time.This is where the concept of breaking down the why we do what we do into more abstract, philosophical components can really benefit us, as we can extrapolate on the intuitions and gut feelings into philosophical questions and building blocks that theories can be buckle underd from. When we utilize practice centered theories that arise from abstract, philosophical questions, the satisfying process of nursing can be explained and evaluated with mo re ease, and the knowledge we generate could be seen as more credible.Just saying something is true because it is doesnt have a whole lot of weight behind it showing how the knowledge we reference as truth comes to be and having evidence that supports it with results that highlight it is, by and large, the best way that nursing knowledge can be produced in a fashion that holds credibility with those that arent of our discipline. We know how awesome we are, further its hard to prove it to others without a process that everyone can relate to that all starts with philosophy.