Weekly outline
The Nature of Philosophy
Provide your responses to the questions below and reply to your classmates' entries. Please cite your references accurately following the APA 7th ed format.
- What is the relevance of the history and philosophy of science to the nursing discipline?
- Is Nursing a science? Explain by relating it to the five demarcation criteria.
Nursing as a Discipline and a Profession
Please watch this youtube-delivered video on Modern Philosophy. Please take down notes and write down questions for discussion during our classes.
Provide your responses to the questions below and reply to your classmates' entries. Please cite your references accurately following the APA 7th ed format.
- Discuss the domains of the metaparadigms of Nursing. Provide explanation and practical examples/ applications.
- Can Nursing be considered as an autonomous discipline if the frameworks guiding practice are borrowed from other disciplines? Explain by how the borrowed concepts and/or frameworks are a fit to the perspectives of Nursing.
- What are issues and challenges about Nursing as a discipline and a profession? Can Nursing remain relevant without theories of Nursing?