Pragmatism Philosophy: Application for Nursing Profession Improvement
Keywords:
Knowledge development, Nursing profession, Pragmatism philosophyAbstract
Nursing is the process of care focusing on responding to individual human needs. This process is implemented for service users by nurses’ actions, interrelationships, and recognition of the connection between humanity and compassion. Nursing care requires supportive data, both objective and subjective. To achieve quality of nursing outcomes, it is necessary to consider knowledge and realities across four metaparadigms: person, environment, health, and nursing. These require exploration, proof, and development. The philosophy of pragmatism accepts diverse methods of knowledge inquiry from individual experiences and scientific processes. Truth is something that dynamically changes and can be applied to practice for solving problems. These perspectives are relevant to the nursing profession, which focuses on solving problems for service users based on their needs or health conditions, in the context of continuously changing environmental factors. These nursing phenomena require knowledge for solving specific problems.
This article’s objective was to present pragmatism philosophy in terms of its dimensions and its application for professional nurses, educators, researchers, and nursing administrators, as well as those interested in applying it to achieve continuous professional development.
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