basic precautions to preventing illness and promoting good health practices. The realist nurse as a learner is focused on furthering her education as a nurse, thus providing her a broader spectrum of professional opportunities. As a collaborator and colleague, the realist provides the healthcare team with the specific information that is relevant to the patients’ current health status. To sum up, the realist nurse is to know that she sees things as they are and not as they might be. Her concern is the vital information that will aid in providing the patient with the highest level of care and attaining knowledge through practice and schooling that allows for the furthering of her professional career (Smalley, 2005). References Blais, K.K., Erb, G., Hayes, J.S., & Kozier, B. (2006). Professional nursing practice: Concepts Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. and perspectives (5th ed.). Porter, S. (2002). Nightingale’s realist philosophy of science. 14-25. Nursing Philosophy, 2, Searle, J. (1999). Painting the bigger picture. 37-39. Philosophers’ Magazine, 8, Smalley, J. (2005). What’s your nursing philosophy. 36 (12), 59-61. Nursing Management, Wainwright, S. (1997) A new paradigm for nursing: the potential for realism. Journal of 1262-1271. Advanced Nursing, 26, Whelton, B. (2002) Human nature as a source of practical truth: Aristotelian-Thomistic realism and the practical science of nursing. 35-46. Nursing Philosophy, 3,
basic precautions to preventing illness and promoting good health practices. The realist nurse as a learner is focused on furthering her education as a nurse, thus providing her a broader spectrum of professional opportunities. As a collaborator and colleague, the realist provides the healthcare team with the specific information that is relevant to the patients’ current health status. To sum up, the realist nurse is to know that she sees things as they are and not as they might be. Her concern is the vital information that will aid in providing the patient with the highest level of care and attaining knowledge through practice and schooling that allows for the furthering of her professional career (Smalley, 2005). References Blais, K.K., Erb, G., Hayes, J.S., & Kozier, B. (2006). Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Porter, S. (2002). Nightingale’s realist philosophy of science. Nursing Philosophy, 2, 14-25. Searle, J. (1999). Painting the bigger picture. Philosophers’ Magazine, 8, 37-39. Smalley, J. (2005). What’s your nursing philosophy. Nursing Management, 36 (12), 59-61. Wainwright, S. (1997) A new paradigm for nursing: the potential for realism. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 26, 1262-1271. Whelton, B. (2002) Human nature as a source of practical truth: Aristotelian-Thomistic realism and the practical science of nursing. Nursing Philosophy, 3, 35-46.
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