Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Nurs Philos. 2024 Jan;25(1):e12473. doi: 10.1111/nup.12473. Epub 2023 Nov 28.
Philosophy adds humanness to nursing and facilitates holistic care. Philosophies like Ubuntu which purports that a person is only a person through other people and emphasises community cohesion and caring for each other can add humanness to nursing. Because Ubuntu validates subjective experience and its meaning in the lifeworld, it exemplifies the basis of holistic and individualised caring in nursing. Although nurses can make their own philosophy through critical reflexivity, the convergent point is the goal of meaningful caring that is, sustaining health and the well-being of patients and significant others. Philosophy transcends job description, it encompasses visceral experience, personal beliefs and goals, resulting in purpose and deeper meaning to the nursing profession of caring as emulated by Florence Nightingale. While contemporary philosophy has been met with criticism as being detached from human concern, narrowly focussed and technical, it evokes critical thinking and promotes sociality in nursing practice. The Covid-19 pandemic vividly brought philosophy to the fore as nurses sacrificially and vulnerably rose to the challenge of caring not only for the sick, but also for families who through infection control measures were deprived of sociality. This paper argues that philosophy adds humanness and substance to nursing in the context of COVID-19.
哲学为护理增添人性，并促进整体护理。像 Ubuntu 这样的哲学认为，一个人只有通过他人才能成为人，并强调社区凝聚力和相互关爱，可以为护理增添人性。因为 Ubuntu 验证了主观经验及其在生活世界中的意义，所以它体现了护理整体和个性化关怀的基础。尽管护士可以通过批判性反思来形成自己的哲学，但共同点是有意义的关怀的目标，即维持患者和重要他人的健康和幸福。哲学超越了工作描述，它包含了内在的体验、个人的信仰和目标，为护理职业带来了目的和更深层次的意义，这是弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔所倡导的。虽然当代哲学受到批评，认为它脱离了人类的关注，狭隘地集中在技术上，但它唤起了批判性思维，并促进了护理实践中的社会性。新冠疫情生动地将哲学置于突出地位，护士们冒着牺牲和脆弱的风险，不仅要照顾病人，还要照顾因感染控制措施而失去社交的家庭。本文认为，哲学在新冠疫情背景下为护理增添了人性和实质。
