Month: November 2020

A live-streamed virtual panel

Thursday, Feb. 4
9-11AM Pacific, 12-2PM Eastern, 5-7PM GMT

Registration is required and attendance is limited to 500.
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Panelists and topics

• Barb Pesut, PhD RN, Professor at University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
  Claiming the margins: Politics and Philosophy
• Peggy Chinn, PhD RN, Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut, USA
  Decolonizing nursing thought: Why and how?
• Sally Thorne, PhD RN FAAN, Professor at University of British Columbia, Canada
  Conceptual development of nursing’s theorizing movement
• Patricia Benner, PhD RN FAAN, Emerita Professor at University of California San Francisco, USA
  Rethinking nursing pedagogical models in light of current neuroscience epistemologies
• Martin Lipscomb, PhD RN, Senior Lecturer at Worcester University, United Kingdom
  Complexity and ambition in nurse education

Moderator

• Pamela J Grace, RN PhD FAAN, Associate Professor of Nursing and Ethics (Retired), Boston College, USA, Vice-Chair of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society

Hosted by IPONS in conjunction with
the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing Center for Nursing Philosophy

The early essays chart the development of feminist perspectives in the field of nursing ethics from the late 19th century to the present day and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered understandings on the moral lives of nurses, patients and families. They also consider the transformative potential of feminist perspectives to widen the scope of nursing and midwifery practices to include the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of moral decision making in health care settings. The second half of the book draws on feminist insights to critically discuss the role of nurses and midwives in leadership, healthcare organisations, and research as well as the provision of particular forms of care e.g. care in the home and abortion care.

This exciting new book is published by Springer and may be purchased at their website.

The Center for Nursing Philosophy (CNP) is housed within the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine. The CNP aims to provide a platform for increased nursing philosophy scholarship development and dissemination, as well as wider engagement with the local, national, and international philosophy community to identify new foci for inquiry and advancement. The CNP was launched in 2019. The Founding Director is Miriam Bender and the CNP Steering Committee includes Patricia Benner, Candace Burton, Dave Holmes, Duncan Pritchard, Pamela Reed, Mark Risjord, Derek Sellman, and Sally Thorne.

Recent CNP efforts include: a co-sponsored live-stream virtual panel on ‘the Future of Nursing Philosophy’ with IPONS; the coordination of a virtual philosophy reading group, to begin in February 2021, with the first readings focused on actor-network-theory and its application in/significance for nursing; and accepting its first PhD Student Fellow, Zahra Sharifiheris, who is working to trace the history of the concept ‘nursing philosophy’ in the literature with the aim of elucidating how nurses and other scholars have ‘philosophized’ nursing over time and how that philosophizing has influenced nursings’ understanding of its discipline.

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