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Lipscomb, Martin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7329-9221
(2024)
Nursing's professional character: A chimera?
Nursing Philosophy, 25 (2).
pp. 1-5.
ISSN Online: 1466-769X
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Abstract
Does nursing possess a character? The idea that professions have characters is hard to sustain, and the possibility that nursing as a collectively or occupation lacks a character is worth considering. To this end it is argued that absent robust theoretical and/or evidential scaffolding it is implausible to suppose that nursing has an objectively real (reality describing) character, and if “nursing’s character” is chimeric or illusory, aspects of our conception of professionalism require re-appraisal. Specifically, traits and values that attach to nursing and are implicated in the concept of character are, shorn of their moorings, untethered. This may be significant.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | nursing profession, nursing traits and values, nursing values, nursing's character |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery |
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| Copyright Info: | An open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, © 2024 The Authors. |
| Depositing User: | Martin Lipscomb |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2024 16:41 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2024 16:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13621 |
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