In this first week’s assignment you will be responding to the work of Schlotfeldt (ch. 2) addressing nursing’s professional obligation, as a discipline, to continuously replenish and add to our body of knowledge:
Before talking about the discipline of nursing, let’s talk about the profession of nursing. Schlotfeldt (1989/2013) discussed two major criteria for nursing (and any occupational group) to be considered a profession.
First: a social mission or goal, perceived as value to the society served, and with consensus from members of the profession as to knowledge required for mastery.
Second: the profession (members of) inclusive of a cadre who can investigate, continuously advance knowledge, and gain new knowledge. Parse (1999) points to the profession of nursing’s goal being to enhance quality of life, as “persons educated in the discipline (community of interest) according to nationally regulated, defined, and monitored standards” (p. 275). So… what is the discipline?
Parse (1999) noted the discipline of nursing encompasses theories and frameworks “explicate the nature of nursing’s major phenomenon of concern, the human-universe-health process” (p. 275). Schlotfeldt (1989/2013) conceptualized this (discipline of nursing) “as an expandable and permeable sphere” comprised of varying sized segments of knowledge sources constituting the discipline of nursing (p.17).
Parse (1999) beautifully summarized the profession-discipline:
Although the discipline and the profession of nursing have different goals, the raison d`etre of the nursing profession is the enhancement of quality of life for humankind. The discipline provides the science lived in the art of practice (p. 275).
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