Knowledge Development In Nursing

Knowledge development in breast feeding has been somewhat of a hot topic in the much scholastic endeavors of the profession for quite some time. As the profession grew from a focus centered on treating physical symptoms and conditions to a more on the entirely-around(prenominal) approach that considered psychological, social, and spiritual fatalitys in addition to physical illness, the need to break depressed the process of knowledge development arose.By utilizing nursing theories, which permit the use of evidenced based practice in most cases, it seems as though the profession of nursing gained more credibility in the scientific community as far as the value of the knowledge produced I feel that utilizing processes akin to those already accepted as prudent by more established scientific fields dish outed fulfil that credibility.In order to earn to nursing theories, however, the process had to begin with a philosophic component that post allow for a separation from concre te/ scientific knowledge, among other things, in order to promote more abstract concepts and different methods to look at how we come to that knowledge. McCurry (2009) touches on this premise as she describes how a common theme, in this case the common good of society, give notice be looked at from some(prenominal) different perspectives, as it creates an arena in which those perspectives can be put to determine how to go about investigating the perspectives further.Although it wasnt the center part of the article, one highlight was a breakdown of how more abstract thoughts can be associateed to the application of intentional actions through the use of theories, which stems from philosophical questions. Philosophy lays the ground work for knowledge production to be strengthened upon. In a appearance, Kim (1999) echoed these sentiments as she discusses critical reflective inquiry and its applications in relation to pain management in a South Korean hospital setting.She admits that nursing has situations in which our therapeutic actions can be back up by one theory and conflicted by another. What it seemed to re-enforce was how our drive to answer the philosophical questions created by the issues we wish to address can use various forms to achieve that common goal, however, those that are centered around the evaluation of how our therapeutic actions genuinely pan out versus how we think they pan out will suspensor us gain the most useful knowledge as big as we are able to recognize the need for, and benefit of, changes that help our patients out the most.We wouldnt be able to gain the knowledge that item actions and changes are therapeutically beneficial without understanding why we wanted to yield changes in the first place, and generating multiple attempts at making those changes to see which ones truly accomplished the goal would seemingly allow us to have the outgo chance at achieving what we set out to.Evaluating the nursing interventions we lend oneself to view our patients for the better is important, we all know that. Abbott (1988) pointed out that although nursing is capable of evaluating our interventions in practice, we do not tend to emphasize the importance of breaking down specific practical interventions in an abstract way that allows for our ability to link the interventions we utilize to the thought processes behind it while we are out practicing our craft.This I can face-to-facely relate to, when considering how the first couple years of my personal practice was spent learning how to simply accomplish the tasks I was presented with in the time frame I was to accomplish them in (assessment, documenting, intervening, documenting, evaluating, intervening, documenting, documenting, documentingugh). I knew that at that place was good reason behind the things I was doing however, I was not keenly aware of the concepts and philosophies that comprised that reasoning, I was simply focused on completing my tasks i n a timely, safe invent.Reed (2006) promotes the idea that nurses tend not to have a full understanding of the why we do the things we do, and went so far as to say that there might be a level of religious mysticism when it comes to the healing processes we are engaged in. That mysticism was essentially summed up by purporting that when we cant put our finger on the why we do what we do, we fall back on concepts like intuition and gut feelings. Its not to say that we are incorrect in our intuitions, however, we dont have a strong link to the rationale behind it all the time.This is where the concept of breaking down the why we do what we do into more abstract, philosophical components can really benefit us, as we can vulgarise on the intuitions and gut feelings into philosophical questions and building blocks that theories can be generated from. When we utilize practice centered theories that arise from abstract, philosophical questions, the whole process of nursing can be explain ed and evaluated with more ease, and the knowledge we generate could be seen as more credible.Just saying something is true because it is doesnt have a whole lot of weight behind it showing how the knowledge we reference as truth comes to be and having evidence that supports it with results that highlight it is, by and large, the best way that nursing knowledge can be produced in a fashion that holds credibility with those that arent of our discipline. We know how awesome we are, but its heavy(a) to prove it to others without a process that everyone can relate to that all starts with philosophy.