Nursing Philosophy: Call for papers for Special Issue
Brave new world? Health, technology and evidence based practice
Guest Editor: Stuart Nain Submission deadline 1 st J une 2015 Body care is at the centre of nursing practice but the nature of that care has been extended beyond the personal, human-to-human contact, and is increasingly refracted through the medium of technological/scientific interventions. The way these technologies interact with the human dimension does, and should, require critical analysis, particularly for nurses who are increasingly expected to adopt methods and approaches that change the nature of the nurse patient relationship. Added to this is the way that clinicians/academics/researchers interact with healthcare issues, locally as well as globally. There is an established debate and tension within the evidence based practice literature that illustrates a deep ambivalence about how a holistic approach to clinical practice relates to, enhances, or is undermined by the new health technologies. These include care pathways, systematic reviews of knowledge, the enabling/disabling effects of technology and the putative implication of an empiricist and dehumanising process inherent in these developments. For example, what happens to the complexity of ethical debates when shaped in the form of arguments based on literature reviews? These may wittingly or unwittingly serve as a means of translating complex moral issues into usable clinical regimes that partially mimic meta-analyses. Furthermore we may ask what place narrative knowledge and qualitative experiences may have in this new world of implementation technologies? And how do the new interventions of telemedicine and other policy drivers that emphasise the "hospital-at-home" impact on the ways that nurses carry out healthcare? Papers are now invited for consideration for a special issue of Nursing Philosophy that develops this theme. Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the journal author guidelines and will be subject to the usual peer-review process. When submitting your manuscript please state that the article is for the special issue: Brave new world? Health, technology and evidence based practice. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 1 st June 2015. Authors who would like to discuss their ideas for a paper to be considered for this themed issue are welcome to contact stuart.nairn@nottingham.ac.uk