FRIDAY MARCH 25, 2022 2-3:30pm California USA, 4-5:30pm Chía Colombia, 6-7:30pm Belo Horizonte Brazil, 10-11:30pm Netherlands, 8-9:30am (3/26) Sydney Australia
Speaker panel featuring:
Meiriele Tavares Araujo RN MSN PhD | Professor | Department of Applied Nursing | Schoolof Nursing | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Rochelle Einboden RN PhD | Lecturer | Faculty of Medicine and Health | Susan Wakil Schoolof Nursing and Midwifery | University of Sydney, Australia
María Elisa Moreno Fergusson BSN DNS | Profesora Titular & Directora programa de Doctorado en Enfermería |Facultad de Enfermería y Rehabilitación | Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
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:
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.
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)
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
