IPONS-affiliated journal Nursing Philosophy is now accepting applications for Editorial Board members – learn more and apply here via the Call for Applications.

Editors-in-chief Miriam Bender and Stefanos Mantzoukas are also launching an Early Stage Reviewer program “to provide individuals early in their academic and/or scholastic career the opportunity to receive a mentored experience in philosophical manuscript review processes and learn how to conduct constructive and effective critiques of the arguments/ideas put forth in manuscripts.” Learn more and apply here.

Don’t forget to submit your abstracts and register for the 2023 Hybrid 26th Annual International Philosophy of Nursing Conference today. Abstracts accepted until May 31, 2023. Link here.

Announcing a new book from Olga Petrovskaya and an anthology edited by Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins Walsh, and Brandon Brown.

Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault

by Olga Petrovskaya

Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault critiques selected American nursing theory and its use of post-structural theory, comparing and contrasting how postmodern and post-structural ideas have been used fruitfully in nursing research and theorizing elsewhere. Making the case that post-structural ideas are vital for nurses’ ability to critically reflect on their discipline and profession, this is a necessary read for all those interested in nursing theory, philosophy, and praxis. 

Use discount code ESA22 for 20% off!

Nursing a Radical Imagination
Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures

Edited By

Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, Brandon Brown

Examining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, Nursing a Radical Imagination proposes what that radical imagination for nursing might look like, presenting possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.

The Anvil of Argument: Debate and Disagreement in Nursing

Purchase the text here.

The Doctoral Student Award recognizes a significant contribution by a doctoral student to the Theme issue on Personhood in Nursing Philosophy

The Nursing Philosophy theme issue on Personhood: Philosophies, Applications and Critique in Health Care with contributions presented at the 24^th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference in Nursing is now available online and this included one of the articles to be reserved for a paper authored, or first author, by a doctoral student. The winner of this award is Julie Gunby who is the first author of “Clinical reasoning as midwifery: A Socratic model for shared decision making in person‐centred care”; co-authored with Jennifer Ryan Lockhart.

Julie Gunby is in her second year of coursework as a PhD student in Theology & Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. Her research interests are philosophical ethics, theological ethics, and perinatal care. She has practiced for ten years as a Certified Nurse Midwife and serves on the ethics committee at Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Atlanta, Georgia, where she delivers babies for underinsured women and teaches obstetrics to medical residents. Prior to becoming a nurse-midwife, Julie received a Master of Theological Studies from Duke Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Georgia. 

Warm congratulations to Julie to this Doctoral Student Award and good luck with your important work.

The guest editorial team of the theme issue: Joakim Öhlén, Ida Björkman, Elin Siira & Marit Kirkevold

Edited by Pamela Grace and Aimee Milliken

This handbook provides tools for nurse educators, ethics educators, practicing nurses and allied health professionals for developing confidence and skill in ethical decision making in interdisciplinary settings such as acute and chronic care hospitals and clinics. It is useful for all healthcare personnel who face ethical issues in the course of their work and who work with nurses to resolve these issues. While the content is based on a US context, the concerns of nurses internationally are discussed and emphasized. Nurses working in acute and chronic care settings face many obstacles to providing good care and are often the first line of defense related to patient safety and meeting the needs of patients and their families. Some of the obstacles to optimal patient care are institutional, some sociocultural, and others the result of inadequate communication.  Evidence points to the idea that while nurses do have the knowledge and skills to address practice problems of various sorts, they may not be confident in their skills of ethical decision making and advocacy actions. This is a resource to develop moral agency on behalf of individuals and to address broader barriers to good care raised at the local, community, or social levels. 

Available soon from Springer and can be pre-ordered from your favorite book vendor.

Description

Nursing philosophy has been an important part of nursing scholarship since the inception of the discipline. Philosophical writing, however, is a distinct genre.  This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn the genre: to learn how to critically read works in philosophy and to turn their critiques into publishable nursing philosophy essays. 

The workshop will be a one semester/two quarter duration (from January 2022 to May 2022), during which we will meet via Zoom weekly at the start and move towards independent writing and group review toward the end of the workshop.

The workshop will begin with targeted readings and discussion of philosophical texts that will be selected based on participants’ stated interests. During the course of the workshop, participants will experiment with philosophical writing and be mentored by experienced faculty. By the end of the workshop the participant is expected to have produced a solid basis for an essay suitable for publication or conference presentation.

Note: The workshop is open to students/faculty from any university, but there are no course credits being offered.

Location

The workshop will be completely virtual and conducted via Zoom. We intend to create meeting times that will allow participants from multiple locations/countries to be able to attend. All participants will therefore need a computer with internet access and ability to use the Zoom portal.

Audience

This workshop is primarily intended for nursing PhD graduate students who have already obtained candidacy status. Nursing faculty are also encouraged to apply, especially those new to philosophical writing and scholarship.

A maximum of 10 participants will be admitted into the workshop. 

Instructors

Dr. Mark Risjord is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University and a Center for Nursing Philosophy steering committee member. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. With respect to issues in health care, Risjord’s primary focus has been issues in nursing research. His book Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice, and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) studies the history of nursing scholarship and contributes to contemporary discussions in nursing about the character of nursing research.

Dr. Miriam Bender is Associate Professor at the University of California Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and the Director of the Center for Nursing Philosophy. Empirically, Dr. Bender’s research focuses on the relationality between the organization of healthcare delivery, multi-professional practice dynamics, and patient care quality and safety outcomes. The challenges of inquiring into the dynamic complexities of healthcare has spurred a philosophical turn in her scholarship, including efforts to unpack and critique epistemological and methodological paradigms that paradoxically advance determinate theories in a discipline that is defined by a commitment to the non-reducibility of the health/care experience.

Josh Dolin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests lie primarily in virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. His essays have appeared in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and American Philosophical Quarterly. Josh will serve as a graduate student researcher in the Center for Nursing Philosophy (supported through a Mellon-funded grant) and facilitate instruction in this workshop.

Application Period

The application period opens Sept. 1, 2021 and closes Oct. 15, 2021. Notification of acceptance into the workshop will happen by Nov. 15. A syllabus of readings and meeting times will follow, based on the interests and time zone locations of accepted participants.

The workshop will start the week of Jan. 10, 2022 and end the week of May 2, 2022.

Accepted participants must commit to full participation in all aspects of the workshop, which include weekly readings, weekly meetings, and regular writing.

Application Materials

Please submit the following application documents:

1. Topic Proposal: Describe the philosophical questions or ideas you would like to explore in the workshop. Highlight the philosophical questions or ideas and explain how they are related to nursing scholarship or practice. (250 words maximum) Sample proposals are provided on the Center for Nursing Philosophy website.
2. Personal Statement: Describe how nursing philosophy fits into your expected nursing career or practice, what attracts you to doing philosophy, and any previous education in or experience with philosophy (250 words maximum)
3. A letter of support from your PhD advisor (for graduate students) or Chair/Dean (for faculty). This letter should acknowledge that the workshop will take time away from the participant’s other academic duties and make clear how the participant’s time will be protected by the participant’s department/school to ensure they can attend and complete all workshop activities (for example by being able to enroll in a directed studies course at their university to account for and provides credit for the workshop activities)
4. Up-to-date curriculum vitae

Contacts

For questions, please contact either Dr. Mark Risjord (mrisjor@emory.edu) or Dr. Miriam Bender (miriamb@uci.edu)

Decolonizing Nursing: What? Why? How?

A webinar panel presentation co-sponsored by
Nursology.net and the Center for Nursing Philosophy,
September 23, 2021, 6 – 7:30 PM Eastern (US & Canada)

ALL ARE INVITED!

Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a
confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Panelists
Lisa Bourque Bearskin, RN, PhD, Thompson Rivers University (BC)
Lucinda Canty, RN, PhD, University of St. Joseph (CT)
Barbara Hatcher, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Hatcher-DuBois-Odrick Group, LLC
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, PhD, RN, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Daniel Suárez-Baquero, PhD, MSN, BSN, University of California San Francisco
Bukola Salami, RN, MN, PhD, University of Alberta
Jennifer Woo, PhD, CNM, WHNP, FACNM, Texas Woman’s University
Moderator
Miriam Bender, PhD, RN, University of California Irvine