Intensive Care Unit Nursing: An Interpretable and Hermeneutic Practice

Intensive care unit (ICU) nursing is an interpretive practice. Hermeneutics, as an interpretive philosophy, is an ideal approach to make meaning of the ambiguities that exist in this intensive practice setting. This paper uses the underpinnings from Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to explore t...

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Autores principales: Giuliana Harvey, Dianne M Tapp, Nancy J Moules
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Publicado: University of Calgary 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8eaae805424f4734a9a1496534f07918
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Sumario:Intensive care unit (ICU) nursing is an interpretive practice. Hermeneutics, as an interpretive philosophy, is an ideal approach to make meaning of the ambiguities that exist in this intensive practice setting. This paper uses the underpinnings from Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to explore the idea that ICU nursing is an interpretive practice.