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Submitted June 10, 2022
Published 2022-06-10

Research Articles

Vol. 31 No. 27 (2022): Enfoque

ETHICS, ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF NURSING CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY DISEASE


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Published: 2022-06-10

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Camargo Bethancourt., I. L., & Gómez Agrazal, B. J. (2022). ETHICS, ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF NURSING CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY DISEASE. Enfoque, 31(27), 24–38. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/enfoque/article/view/2945

Abstract

Over the years, essays and writings related to kidney patient care have focused on quality of life, coping styles, satisfaction, or perceptions experienced by patients during their illness. This article aims to recognize that nursing care for kidney patients is a fundamental aspect that provides the professional with an understanding of the patient's reality and contributes positively to understanding the reality of nursing as a discipline framed in some positions that guarantee their meaning. These positions are ethics, ontology, and epistemology. Ethics is achieved when the nursing professional manages to protect and respect the human dignity of kidney patients who receive health care. Ontology deals with reflecting on the conceptions of reality and their relationships, focusing its purpose on the search for health, well-being, independence, and transcendence of kidney patients. And epistemology consists of showing, in a holistic way, the evolution of nursing knowledge to provide excellent care to kidney patients.

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