Abstract
AimThe aim is to highlight thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline. This is achieved by exploring thoughts of creation in relation to everyday nursing care.DesignThis study, based on a hermeneutical approach, provides reused data drawn from a larger Norwegian empirical study.MethodA second thematic analysis was conducted. Data in the original study consisted of qualitative interviews and qualitative follow‐up interviews with 13 nurses. The research context was the primary and secondary somatic and psychiatric health service, inside as well as outside institutions.ResultsThree themes emerged: (a) Life as greater than a human being; (b) creational powers attributed to the human being; and (c) understanding life as basically good. Thus, thoughts of creation in terms of philosophical underpinnings seem to gain backing from nurses’ experiences of everyday nursing care and it can be argued that it adds elements that enrich nursing care.
Highlights
This study's point of departure is an interest in highlighting thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline by exploring the philosophy in relation to experiences of everyday nurs‐ ing care
This study aims to highlight thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline
This could be important when life is experienced as difficult to understand, in terms of the patients and their life conditions. Comments such as “I can't always understand life” and “I'm quite small and understand very little of it” can be seen as an ex‐ pression of how the nurse experienced not having absolute control in life, that is that life was not experienced as anthropogenic and it was not solely the responsibility of nurses to decide what should live or die. This means that life presents itself in everyday nursing care in ways that the nurses were not directly able to change
Summary
This study's point of departure is an interest in highlighting thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline by exploring the philosophy in relation to experiences of everyday nurs‐ ing care. Since the 1980s, different positions have been put forward and debates still revolve around questions such as what con‐ stitutes nursing as a discipline (Alligood, 2014a, 2014b) These ques‐ tions are influenced by political, societal and socio‐economic factors in general (Yeo, 2014) and by philosophy of science in particular (Bluhm, 2014; Meleis, 2018; Risjord, 2010). Creation is a phenomenon that goes on in the created world and that life itself tells us about (Hansen, 1999) This means that creation goes on in life itself, here and and at any given moment we are alive and live. The thought‐motive makes it possible to consider creation as an understandable phenomenon (Hansen, 1999)
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