Author: IPONS Secretary - Pawel Krol

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

The University of Central Lancashire invites you to the 4th international hermeneutic phenomenology methodology course which is due to run online throughout July 2021. The course is aimed at postgraduate research students, researchers and academics working within health and social care areas who are new/novices in this theoretical and methodological approach.

During the online course, participants will receive an introduction to, and beginning experience in, designing hermeneutic phenomenology studies, collecting and analysing data, and reporting themes, qualities and patterns.

Course Facilitators

Professor Gill Thomson
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Professor Susan Crowther
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

For details about the course, download the flyer

To register Click This Link. Discounted rate for bookings before 30 April, 2021!

Please direct queries to Professor Gill Thomson gthomson@uclan.ac.uk

Abstracts for the 24th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference will be accepted through Sunday, January 17. The conference will be held on June 16-18, 2021, hosted by the Institute of Health and Care Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Remote participation will be available, and the possibility of attending in person will be decided in the spring.

The theme is Personhood: Philosophies, Applications and Critiques in Healthcare, but all topics in nursing philosophy are welcome.

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

John Paley

16 February, 2021

8am – 9am PST, 11am-12pm Est,
4pm-5pm GMT

The event is free, but registration is required. Register here.

John Paley will be introducing his new book.

Following John’s presentation there will be responses from nursing’s top editors, Roger Watson until recently editor-in-chief of Journal of Advanced Nursing and Sally Thorne, editor of Nursing Inquiry.

Please email p.snelling@worc.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Concept analysis is an established genre of inquiry in nursing, introduced in the 1970s. Currently, over 100 concept studies are published annually, yet the methods used within this field have rarely been questioned. In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, John provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions that underpin nursing’s concept analysis methods. He argues, provocatively, that there are no such things as concepts, as traditionally conceived.
Drawing on Wittgenstein and Construction Grammar, the book first makes a case for dispensing with the traditional concept of a ‘concept’, and then provides two examples of a new approach, examining the use of ‘hope’ and ‘moral distress’. Casting doubt on the assumption that ‘hope’ always stands for an ‘inner’ state of the person, the book shows that the word’s function varies with the grammatical construction it appears in. Similarly, it argues that ‘moral distress’ is not the name of a mental state, but a normative classification used to bolster a narrative concerning nursing’s identity.

By John Paley

Concept analysis is an established genre of inquiry in nursing, introduced in the 1970s. Currently, over 100 concept studies are published annually, yet the methods used within this field have rarely been questioned. In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, John provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions that underpin nursing’s concept analysis methods. He argues, provocatively, that there are no such things as concepts, as traditionally conceived.

Drawing on Wittgenstein and Construction Grammar, the book first makes a case for dispensing with the traditional concept of a ‘concept’, and then provides two examples of a new approach, examining the use of ‘hope’ and ‘moral distress’. Casting doubt on the assumption that ‘hope’ always stands for an ‘inner’ state of the person, the book shows that the word’s function varies with the grammatical construction it appears in. Similarly, it argues that ‘moral distress’ is not the name of a mental state, but a normative classification used to bolster a narrative concerning nursing’s identity.

A more detailed synopsis of the book is available at john-paley.com

The book is published by Routledge, and is available on their website.

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 24th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference. The theme will be Personhood: Philosophies, Applications and Critiques in Healthcare, but all topics in nursing philosophy are welcome. The conference will be held on June 16-18, 2021, hosted by the Institute of Health and Care Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Remote participation will be available, and the possibility of attending in person will be decided in the spring. (Watch this space!)

All abstracts accepted for the conference planned to be held in August 2020 have been invited for presentations at the conference in June 2021.  This call invites new abstracts.

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

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.
Click here to register now

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 aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels.

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.

To learn more about the CNP or subscribe to the CNP mailing list, please click here.

Thinking about “abolition democracy” and its consequences for radical nursing

The COVID19 pandemic has exposed global social and racial inequalities that stem from the racist foundations of post-colonial, capitalist societies and decades of systematic defunding of social, health and welfare services that follow a neoliberal rationale. It has also made clear the link between infectious diseases and climate change as well as the consequences of the ruthless exploitation of resources and the destructive effects of the continuous systematic dismantling of public goods and austerity measures that have particularly devastating consequences for BIPOC, LGBTQ*communities, incarcerated populations and people with disabilities. Combined with the impact of a police apparatus that has been systematically militarized, the COVID-19 crisis has made visible and in fact exaggerated the already existing inequalities in our neoliberal societies. These are inequalities that occur both within and across borders, creating an ever widening gap between the global North and global South which have been left to fend for themselves with millions of migrants fleeing unlivable conditions, and kept in camps exposed to diseases and systematic abuse. How are we to imagine the role of the nurse in these dire conditions?

This themed issue seeks to explore theories and philosophies that might move us towards what Angela Davis has called “Abolition Democracy”. We are seeking submissions that actively engage with a broad range of critical theories and philosophies from beyond the health sciences that can help to more fully articulate what it means to abolish systems of oppression including even health care. We are interested in exploring how new ideas (or combinations of them) can help to develop a theoretical framework through which existing attempts at social justice can be critiqued and new approaches imagined.

Papers should seek to address some of the following questions:

• How do critical theories helps us to understand the limitations within nursing and health systems that have actually created or contributed to the very inequalities we now need to address?
• How can new philosophies of nursing be developed that take us beyond uncritical hero narratives and provide actionable frameworks for nurses seeking to decolonize or deconstruct their own practices in the 21st century?
• How can theory and philosophy can be used to ask hard questions of nursing itself, and address the urgent and pressing needs of our time?

Completed papers must be submitted before the end of April for double blinded peer review with a view to publication in the October 2021 edition of Nursing Philosophy.

Authors should follow the guidelines for new manuscripts and submit via the NUP Manuscript Central online system:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1466769x/homepage/forauthors.html

Guest Editors:
Kylie M Smith, Thomas Foth, Omar (Ali) Mushtaq and Claire Valderama-Wallace

To share initial ideas or ask questions please email Dr Kylie Smith at kylie.m.smith@emory.edu