Between Nuring, Caring, and Technology: Being Alive is More Than Having a Beating Heart

Autor:	Robin S. Powers-Jarvis
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Community and Home Care medicine.medical_specialty Beating heart Nursing (miscellaneous) business.industry Internal medicine medicine Cardiology business Care Planning
Zdroj:	International Journal of Human Caring. 16:48-53
ISSN:	2578-2304 1091-5710
DOI:	10.20467/1091-5710.16.1.48
Popis:	Nurses are often faced with the challenge of reconciling what is seen and believed regarding life with what is popular and commonly known by biomedical science. Faced with this philosophical, ethical, and moral dilemma, nurses can use many of the philosophical viewpoints grounding nursing science and its practice to assist in the reconciliation to this life-death issue. Using various perspectives and reflecting on Boykin and Schoenhofer’s theory of nursing as caring, this article addresses the question whether the presence of a beating heart is a sufficient determining factor to declare that a person is “alive,” influencing the reconciliation of technologic, caring, and nursing perspectives on health and human care. In essence, “Is a beating heart tantamount to being alive?”
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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