{"title":"Rethinking the Meaning of Nursing: Albanian Nursing's Philosophical Journey.","authors":"Dyanne Affonso, Alessandro Stievano, Gennaro Rocco, Ippolito Notarnicola, Noemi Giannetta, Blerina Duka","doi":"10.1111/nup.70050","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evolution of nursing in Albania offers a unique philosophical skylight into its transformation. Albanian nurses are rethinking nursing, bolstered by global nursing philosophy within an Albanian philosophical and cultural context. The meaning of nursing emerges from a journey of discovery that leverages a philosophical lens to harmonise global nursing philosophy with Albanian culture. Nursing philosophical discourse in Albania is proposing solutions to address challenges posed by the country's significant healthcare transitions. Albanian nurse leaders have created a fruitful dialogue between global nursing philosophical concepts and the rediscovery of Albania's cultural principles amidst their efforts to redefine nursing. Through its newly developed 'BESA, kerING, pivetel' philosophy, Albanian nursing enriches the country's healthcare system, imbuing it with humanised, ethical, and culturally meaningful care.</p>","PeriodicalId":49724,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Philosophy","volume":"26 4","pages":"e70050"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nursing Philosophy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.70050","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The evolution of nursing in Albania offers a unique philosophical skylight into its transformation. Albanian nurses are rethinking nursing, bolstered by global nursing philosophy within an Albanian philosophical and cultural context. The meaning of nursing emerges from a journey of discovery that leverages a philosophical lens to harmonise global nursing philosophy with Albanian culture. Nursing philosophical discourse in Albania is proposing solutions to address challenges posed by the country's significant healthcare transitions. Albanian nurse leaders have created a fruitful dialogue between global nursing philosophical concepts and the rediscovery of Albania's cultural principles amidst their efforts to redefine nursing. Through its newly developed 'BESA, kerING, pivetel' philosophy, Albanian nursing enriches the country's healthcare system, imbuing it with humanised, ethical, and culturally meaningful care.
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Nursing Philosophy provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues in nursing. These focus on questions relating to the nature of nursing and to the phenomena of key relevance to it. For example, any understanding of what nursing is presupposes some conception of just what nurses are trying to do when they nurse. But what are the ends of nursing? Are they to promote health, prevent disease, promote well-being, enhance autonomy, relieve suffering, or some combination of these? How are these ends are to be met? What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, ''intuitive'' or some other?
Papers that explore other aspects of philosophical enquiry and analysis of relevance to nursing (and any other healthcare or social care activity) are also welcome and might include, but not be limited to, critical discussions of the work of nurse theorists who have advanced philosophical claims (e.g., Benner, Benner and Wrubel, Carper, Schrok, Watson, Parse and so on) as well as critical engagement with philosophers (e.g., Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Polanyi, Taylor, MacIntyre and so on) whose work informs health care in general and nursing in particular.