<p>The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing is the first explicitly philosophical articulation in English of the essence of nursing from a phenomenological perspective. The authors interpret nursing as competencies and excellences that are exercised in an "in-between" situation characteristic of nursing practice (the practical sense) which fosters the well-being of patients (the moral sense) within the nurse-patient relationship (the personal sense). This directly challenges the current tendency to reconstruct nursing by using theories drawn from the behavioral and natural sciences, and shows why nursing must be reformed from within. Bishop and Scudder stress the use of phenomenology to articulate an actual practice, showing the unique capacity of phenomenology to illuminate actual situations and to generate fresh understandings of old problems.</p>

The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing: A Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Scudder Jr., John R.

Bishop, Anne H.

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

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The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing: A Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice