Nursing education research points to lack of faculty support as a factor in nursing students' voluntary or involuntary withdrawal from nursing education programs. Moreover, despite global trends toward educational processes grounded in humanism that foster egalitarian and liberating student-teacher relationships, nursing students continue to report that some nursing faculty struggle to enact th...

AIM To assist the researcher in understanding the similarities and differences between the Husserlian and Heideggerian philosophies of phenomenology, and how that philosophy can inform nursing research as a useful methodology. BACKGROUND Nurse researchers using phenomenology as a methodology need to understand the philosophy of phenomenology to produce a research design that is philosophicall...

ALTHOUGH NURSING THEORISTS have incorporated some concepts from Asian wisdom traditions (Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism) into their works, the ways that these traditions might inform Western nursing philosophies, praxis, and ethics is underdeveloped in the professional literature. These differences have been more extensively explored in disciplines other than nursing (psychology, philosophy...

As a student new to the study of philosophy, I found the reading of writings such as those by MerleauPonty, Husserl and Heidegger to be complex. Fortunately, through narrative writings, I was able to explore these ways of thinking, being and knowing in my doctoral programme. Our Philosophy of Nursing Science course was structured with a robust reading list, Socratic discussion of philosophical ...

Finding Meaning in the Dementia Caregiving Relationship by Bomin Shim Department of Nursing Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Linda L. Davis, Supervisor ___________________________ Julie Barroso ___________________________ Owen Flanagan ___________________________ Catherine L. Gilliss An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment...