Beschreibung:
This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages.
Introduction. 1.Pain is (or may not be) what the patient says it is - professional commitments: objects of study or sacrosanct givens? 2.Who wants a radical nursing curriculum? 3.Moral Realism: Is it plausible? 4.No Moral Compass: A Critique of the Goals and Methods of Contemporary Nursing Ethics Education. 5.Metaphysics and research education in nursing. 6.Making Sense in Nursing Education. 7.Educational Entropy in the 21st Century: A failure to adapt? 8.The social mandate of nursing: a mandate unfulfilled. 9.Meillassoux, correlationism, and phenomenological transcript analysis. Afterword.