Summary Development of Nursing Introduction I-III

Development of Nursing Introduction I-III Chapter 1: Development of Nursing Introduction I-III • Innate human nature leads people to a. Accept the beliefs and practices of others b. Believe what those around them believe c. Act in ways that are congruent with those beliefs • Moral beliefs of groups of people produce rules of action, or ethics • Charles Sanders Pierce () a. Four methods of fixing belief: tenacity, Authority, a priori, Reasoning • Nursing ethics a. Goal: empowered decision marking • Critical social theory a. We can only understand each aspect of a social phenomenon in relation to the history and structure in which it is found b. Nursing history influences the present course of nursing c. The history of the nursing profession is linked to status of women. The Influence of Social Need I-II