NRS510 Nursing as a Discipline (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health (NRMIH)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

This subject encompasses an examination of philosophical perspectives which have influenced nursing epistemology, research and theory. A number of schools of thought are analysed including: the empirico-analytic, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical social science and feminism. The link between such schools of thought and ways of knowing and theorising in nursing is a major focus in this subject. The subject also includes exploration of the concept of generating theory from practice.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

Session 1
Distance	Wagga Wagga
Session 2
Distance	Wagga Wagga

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Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Restricted to Master of Nursing students only.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

be able to describe the development and progress of the discipline of nursing;
articulate the philosophical underpinnings of paradigms in the discipline of nursing;
compare and contrast philosophical and epistemological assumptions in the discipline of nursing;
critically analyse and evaluate paradigmatic perspectives in nursing;
critically evaluate the concept of generating theory from practice;
appreciate the contribution of borrowed perspectives to the development of nursing knowledge; and
appreciate the role of inductive reasoning in the development of nursing knowledge.

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

1. evolution of the discipline of nursing; 2. nursing philosophy and epistemology (this includes an examination of research paradigms and implications for research methodology); 3. generating theory from practice.

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