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1. A personal nursing philosophy serves as a guideline to help nurses live by standards they have set for themselves. 2. Having a personal philosophy of nursing can improve how you interact with patients, their loved ones, and your peers. 3. Personal nursing philosophies help guide ethical, competent, evidence-based, and science-driven nursing ...
Articulating a philosophy statement is an intellectual activity that requires careful thought, because values need to be identified, clarified, and prioritized. Once these values are identified, putting them together into a short, cohesive statement is a challenging process ( Chitty, 2001 ).
- Janice Denehy
- 2001
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Jul 12, 2023 · The overarching finding was that, while vanishingly few articles articulated any definition of philosophy and/or nursing philosophy, it was clear from the analysis that nursing was using the term “philosophy” as a specific mode of reasoning to both ask and answer fundamental questions about nursing knowledge, that is, what it is, how it is ...
A strong version of virtue ethics is a plau-sible option because it is a coherent single theory. Strong versions of virtue ethics provide adequate action guidance because they encourage agents to think hard about the nature and content of the virtues and vices and encourage agents to act according to the v-rules.
- Good Will, Duty & Autonomy
- The Categorical Imperative
- The Practical Imperative
The starting point for Kant’s ethics is the concept of a good will. According to him, there is nothing unconditionally good in the world except the good will of the person (Kant 2002 p. 9). He goes on to explain that “the good will is good not through what it effects or accomplishes, not through its efficacy for attaining any intended end, but only...
Kant puts forward the categorical imperative as the supreme principle of morality (Kant 2002 p. 8). The categorical imperative is a command that is binding irrespective of how we may feel about it, whether we are inclined to follow it or not, or whether there is a direct or indirect benefit to us personally. In other words, there are no conditions ...
The first version of the categorical imperative provides a test for the maxims of our actions. In this way, as Timmons (2013 p. 220) explains, it is a decision-making procedure for our moral deliberation. But what is it that actually renders an action to be either morally right or wrong (Timmons 2013 p. 219)? Following Timmons (2013 p. 219), to ans...
- Alan J. Kearns
- alan.kearns@dcu.ie
- 2017
Sep 25, 2018 · A theory of moral ecology is presented here as a way to conceptualize the relationships between these frameworks. The first two steps of moral action, moral sensitivity and moral judgment, are explored in a pluralistic context. Specifically, multiple ethical frameworks that inform the practice of nursing are presented using an ecological model.
ethics is plausible. In this chapter, I provide a critical account of obli gation-based moral theories in the context of contemporary nursing practice. First, I consider reasons why obligation-based theories are popular in nursing. I examine examples of the deontic approach in the nursing literature and I briefly describe three examples of moral
