Operationalist and inferentialist pragmatism: Implications for nursing knowledge development and practice

Younas, Ahtisham

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“…Younas (2020) chose to explore the operationalist and inferentialist aspects of pragmatism in nursing research, highlighting implications for its use in nursing knowledge development and practice, suggesting ‘If pragmatism is employed as a method and an attitude, it has the potential to produce workable and context‐specific knowledge and practice actions for nursing’. (Younas, 2020, p. 7). Although many have cited pragmatism as an apt philosophy to underpin nursing research, it is worth exploring how plurality, truth, fallibilism, subjectivity and meliorism can be applied to these tenets across nursing research.…”

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“…They suggested a pluralistic approach, while respecting the rigour of each paradigm, and ultimately suggested pragmatism as an approach to nursing research (Weaver & Olson, 2006). & Olson, 2006;Younas, 2020). This may be because research underpinned by pragmatism allows nurse researchers to use what works to solve the problem at hand (James, 1907(James, /2019.…”

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“…McCready (2010) offered an in depth evaluation of pragmatism applied to nursing research, discussing the key concepts of plurality, subjectivity, perspective, fallibilism and instrumentality of truths.McCready (2010) concluded with the suggestion that incorporation of pragmatism in nursing research may bring research and nursing practice together Younas (2020). chose to explore the operationalist and inferentialist aspects of pragmatism in nursing research, highlighting implications for its use in nursing knowledge development and practice, suggesting 'If pragmatism is employed as a method and an attitude, it has the potential to produce workable and contextspecific knowledge and practice actions for nursing'.…”

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Pragmatism as a philosophical foundation to integrate education, practice, research and policy across the nursing profession

Dolan

Nowell

McCaffrey

2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Education, practice, research and policy are all facets of the nursing profession; however they often exist in silos, operating independently of each other. The nursing profession has grappled with the theory practice gap for decades (Greenway et al., 2019).Knowledge developed and learned in the ivory tower of university nursing programs globally does not always translate to real-life problems at the bedside (Leach & Tucker, 2018). Frontline nurses find it difficult to connect published research findings to benefits in practice (Rahmayanti et al., 2020), and it has been argued that research initiatives need to be more tightly aligned to what is happening at

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Dolan

Nowell

McCaffrey

2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…The effort by healthcare professionals to choose their actions that will best improve the circumstance could be considered a form of meliorism—the belief that humans can aid in the betterment of the world (McCready, 2010; Talisse et al, 2008). After the chosen action is enacted and the circumstance concluded, the healthcare professional, ideally, reflects on the outcomes of the actions they have taken and will then use this experience as a source of knowledge for future situations (Younas, 2020). Having positive experiences with the family's response to offering memory making has been described to enable the motivation for future offerings by healthcare professionals.…”

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Factors associated with the decision to offer memory making in end‐of‐life: A survey of healthcare professionals in adult intensive care

Riegel

Randall

Buckley

2022

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aim Report experiences and behaviour influences with healthcare professionals’ decision to and experiences of offering memory making during end‐of‐life care in the adult acute population. Background Little is known about healthcare professionals’ experiences offering memory making during adult acute end‐of‐life care. Design Survey. Methods Registered nurses, medical practitioners and social workers employed at a single tertiary referral adult intensive care, where memory making had been implemented nearly two years prior were invited to participate between June and August 2017. Reporting adheres to the STROBE checklist. Results Ninety‐six valid surveys (75% response rate: 75 registered nurses, 19 medical practitioners, and 2 social workers) were analysed with 67 participants reporting experience offering memory making. Highest overall agreement scores included believing families value memory making and the offer of memory making being beneficial. Enablers were described as organisational supports, personal qualities and good interpersonal relationships. Barriers identified included the intensive care environment, workload, inexperience offering/facilitating memory making, being afraid to offer, lack of resources and legality concerns. Compared with non‐experienced participants, experienced participants reported higher level of confidence and comfort offering memory making, pride in their ability, ability to spend time supporting families and had observed colleagues offering memory making. Experienced participants were less likely to be afraid to offer, be limited by the family's behaviours, report lack of resources or be time limited to offer memory making. Conclusion Findings identify elements needed for the development and support for offering memory making to assist bereaved families in adult acute care including role modelling, support to reduce negative emotions, workload assistance and leadership/organisational support. Relevance to clinical practice Discoveries have important implications in addressing evidence gaps regarding behaviour influences linked to the decision to offer memory making. Findings inform development and sustainability to integrate memory making as routine end‐of‐life care intervention in adult acute care.

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“…Naturalism, with its emphasis on practice, can have implications for nursing, particularly in relation to the gap between theory and practice that has long plagued the profession. As emphasized by Younas (2020), from a pragmatist perspective it is necessary not only to clarify thoughts and ideas but also to evaluate whether thoughts and ideas achieve useful outcomes in nursing practice, which encompasses a variety of contexts. Another example of the implications of naturalism for nursing might be that we need not first determine the form of nursing knowledge before acquiring empirical knowledge so that nursing science has the appearance of science.…”

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Implications of philosophical pragmatism for nursing: Comparison of different pragmatists

Mayumi

Ota

2022

Nursing Philosophy

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Pragmatism emphasizes practical consequences and empirical explanations rather than introspective contemplations. However, the arguments of pragmatists are not uniform, as shown by the four prominent pragmatists presented in this article. The major difference between them is that Peirce and Haack acknowledge an objective truth, whereas James and Rorty do not. Thus, for a fuller understanding of the pragmatist view of our knowledge, both camps must be consulted. In the nursing field, pragmatism is occasionally referred to as a guiding philosophy. However, the influence of James and Rorty has been greater than that of Peirce and Haack on pragmatists, which may risk leading to a skewed understanding of pragmatism by nursing scholars. Still, the four pragmatists share naturalism, which rejects a metaphysics that defines the nature of knowledge before our enquiry and emphasizes experience and practice. Pragmatic naturalism can help ensure that nursing theory does not deviate from clinical practice. This article also explores the broad adaptability of the ideas of all four pragmatists to philosophical issues in nursing, such as mixed‐methods research, epistemic relativism and realism. By showing that pragmatism can be relevant and stimulating to each of these topics, the article demonstrates that the different approaches to pragmatism can provide more inspiration for nurses and nursing researchers in the future.

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Operationalist and inferentialist pragmatism: Implications for nursing knowledge development and practice

Cited by 7 publications

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Pragmatism as a philosophical foundation to integrate education, practice, research and policy across the nursing profession

Pragmatism as a philosophical foundation to integrate education, practice, research and policy across the nursing profession

Factors associated with the decision to offer memory making in end‐of‐life: A survey of healthcare professionals in adult intensive care

Implications of philosophical pragmatism for nursing: Comparison of different pragmatists

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