Watson J
Nurs Sci Q. 1995 Summer;8(2):60-4. doi: 10.1177/089431849500800207.
Postmodernism as a concept and periodizing point between centuries has been defined as both the beginning and the end of modernity. This article explores some of the dimensions of this moment and movement between centuries and the implications of the postmodern condition on the nursing profession. Amidst the health care reform angst of deconstructing and reconstructing, challenges and opportunities await nursing's evolution into its own postmodern paradigm. Manifestations of such a postmodern paradigm are already reflected in the epistemological shifts of nursing science and knowledge development. Challenges posed for nursing science by this disorientingly free-floating era are brought to light--away from the reaction worldview, past the reciprocal and into the transformative-simultaneous, whereby nursing can emerge within its own unique postmodern discipline.
后现代主义作为一个概念以及世纪之间的分期点，被定义为现代性的开端和终结。本文探讨了这个世纪之交时刻与运动的一些层面，以及后现代状况对护理专业的影响。在医疗保健改革解构与重建的焦虑之中，挑战与机遇等待着护理专业向其自身的后现代范式演进。这种后现代范式的表现已经体现在护理科学和知识发展的认识论转变中。这个令人迷失方向的自由漂浮时代给护理科学带来的挑战被揭示出来——从反应性世界观，经过相互性，进入变革性同时性，从而使护理能够在其独特的后现代学科中崭露头角。
