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 th...

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Published inJournal of applied hermeneutics
Main Authors Giuliana Harvey, Dianne M Tapp, Nancy J Moules
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Calgary 01.08.2016
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gadamer
intensive care unit nursing
philosophical hermeneutics
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1927-4416
DOI:10.11575/jah.v0i0.53290