Nursing's professional character: A chimera?
nursing profession
nursing traits and values
nursing values
nursing's character
Journal
Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals
ISSN: 1466-769X
Titre abrégé: Nurs Philos
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100897394
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2024
Apr 2024
Historique:
revised:
08
12
2023
received:
18
04
2023
accepted:
18
01
2024
medline:
20
2
2024
pubmed:
20
2
2024
entrez:
20
2
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Does nursing possess a character? The idea that professions have characters is hard to sustain, and the possibility that nursing as a collectively or occupation lacks a character is worth considering. To this end it is argued that absent robust theoretical and/or evidential scaffolding it is implausible to suppose that nursing has an objectively real (reality describing) character, and if 'nursing's character' is chimeric or illusory, aspects of our conception of professionalism require reappraisal. Specifically, traits and values that attach to nursing and are implicated in the concept of character are, shorn of their moorings, untethered. This may be significant.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e12477Informations de copyright
© 2024 The Authors. Nursing Philosophy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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