Fragmentation in Nursing ...

Jarrin, Olga F., "An Integral Philosophy and Definition of Nursing: Implications for a Unifying Meta-Theory of Nursing" (2006). School of Nursing Scholarly Works. 46.
https://opencommons.uconn.edu/son_articles/46

 - begins (page 2):

"From the frame of reference of mainstream thinking, a major issue in
nursing is our failure to achieve unity. ... From a feminist perspective,
the real issue involves divisiveness and fragmentation that sustains
oppressive relations in an industrialized, patriarchal medical system.
Remaining divided from one another serves the interests of the
dominant group. Rather than benefiting us, fragmentation in nursing
serves to confuse us, to keep our minds and hearts focused on the
dominant system for solutions that never materialize."

~ Peggy L. Chinn¹

 

"Fragmentation within the profession of nursing is still a pressing concern fueled by differences in educational preparation, specialization, disparities in working conditions, divergent worldviews, and, where I hope this paper will make a difference, a lack of a basic nursing theory that is easily understood. The following pages will lay the philosophical and theoretical foundation for a unifying meta-theory of nursing, which retains all the diversity of nursing while providing common ground for communication, both within our profession, and for better articulation of our work to other professions and the general public. The contemporary philosophical and epistemological grounding of nursing in systems theory is challenged, but not rejected, in this new vision for unification and growth of nursing as a discipline and a profession."

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