Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to present Thomas Kuhn's theory and its applicability for epistemological evaluation of the Nursing Graduate Program. Method: reflective analysis with a guiding question: How can Thomas Kuhn's theory contribute to an epistemological evaluation of the Graduate Nursing Program? Results: the Nursing Science in its historical process of realization has been facing numerous challenges that impose themselves to scientific knowledge: having an accurate and robust philosophical basis that justifies and legitimizes the knowledge of the area to support its assertions; dwell on the object of his science; have clear the field of discipline and its relationship with the related sciences, establishing interdisciplinary dialogue. To base scientific production on objects proper to nursing, to seek appropriate methods to approach them without disregarding the knowledge of nurses' experiences and accomplishments may be the guiding thread that enables Nursing Science to be linked to the pragmatics of the profession and Cheers. This has been the challenge for the nursing scientific community. The elements of Kuhnian theory are presented: pre-science, normal science, crisis and revolution; points out a hypothesis to be tested by the researchers of the program. If the hypothesis is true, Nursing Science approaches the paradigmatic level and will manifest itself in pragmatics through the scientific nursing discipline. If rejected, there will be a new classification for the area. Conclusion: the corpus doutrinae of the profession requires qualitative self-assessment of an epistemological nature. Thomas Kuhn's thinking can support this assessment.
Highlights
Nursing Science is a developing science, with a promising historical development process
Representatives of the area highlight the need to critique this ongoing process from the following aspects, namely: philosophical basis, research object, disciplinary field and interdisciplinarity
Regarding the philosophical basis: it is proposed that this should precisely and robustly establish the ability to justify and legitimize the knowledge produced to support its assertions; research object of its science: every science has an object that is unique to him and must conform with; disciplinary field: in this regard, it is argued that researchers should have a clear field of discipline and its relationship to related sciences; Interdisciplinarity: Given the complexity that underlies human action, it is not reasonable for Nursing Science to develop in isolationist ways
Summary
Nursing Science is a developing science, with a promising historical development process. It is known that the area has undergraduate and postgraduate health care professionals, researchers and the support of science, their raison d’être as a health career is in practice, whether in assistance, organization, research and teaching With this motto, it appears that it is in the reading assumed by the nurse that the experimentation and application of the knowledge produced by the Nursing Science takes place.[1,2,3,5]. It is noteworthy that this movement of epistemological criticism of the PPGENF is beneficial, because its focus is to judge the relevance of scientific production for the growth and development of nursing knowledge and its use in care practice, organization, research and teaching.[7,8]. Taking this epistemologist as a reference, the following guiding question is formulated: how can Thomas Kuhn’s theory contribute to the epistemological evaluation of the Postgraduate Nursing Program?
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