Nursing 790F - Big Ideas in Nursing

In this course, learners will build a foundation in philosophy of science, philosophy of nursing, and history of these ideas as they begin their doctoral education. This course will emphasize philosophical paradigms relevant and useful to nursing thought, including critical race theory, indigenous knowledge ways, feminist thought, materialism, empiricism/positivism/postpositivism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and posthumanism as well as those philosophies identified by students as interesting/compelling/innovative/words. Analyze philosophical assumptions including ontology, epistemology, axiology/ethics, and methodology. Central to this course is the operation of power in the production of nursing knowledge and the historical contexts that protect some knowledge production while subsuming others.

Open to PHD-NURSE students only.