Critical Analysis of the Nursing Metaparadigm in Spanish-Speaking Countries

Abstract

This critical analysis examines the definitions of concepts in the nursing metaparadigm presented in English language literature in relation to the perspective of published Spanishspeaking nurse researchers in Spanish-speaking countries. Because language shapes our understanding, nurses who are taught in Spanish to become nurses possess a distinctive disciplinary perspective, based on the notion of nursing as the science of caring. This article is intended to facilitate an awareness with which researchers can overcome language barriers in theoretical development. For settings in which English-speaking and Spanish-speaking nurses must work together, sensitivity to differences in linguistic nuances is important.

Breaking the chains: Decolonizing the language of Nursology

“…Like Macondo, Latin America was full of things without names, and nursing discipline and science (Nursology/Nursología) 2 was not the exemption (Suárez‐Baquero & Walker, 2021). Language shapes how we think, live, and experience the world (Boroditsky, 2011).…”

“…How?’ as an initiative in the Theory‐Guided Practice Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), the UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Center for Nursing Philosophy and http://Nursology.net. I have discussed this topic in detailed in a critical analysis of the universality of the Nursology metaparadigm (Suárez‐Baquero & Walker, 2021). I spoke about my experiences throughout the USian graduate education related to discounting the ways of people around the world, and the discredit of epistemologies rooted in Latin American nursing.…”

“…El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo. 1 (García Márquez, 1967, p. 13) Like Macondo, Latin America was full of things without names, and nursing discipline and science (Nursology/Nursología) 2 was not the exemption (Suárez-Baquero & Walker, 2021). Language shapes how we think, live, and experience the world (Boroditsky, 2011).…”