{"title":"Nursing Profession: The Contemporary Reality and Its Metamodernism Underpinning.","authors":"Holly Wei, Jean Watson","doi":"10.1097/ANS.0000000000000626","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing is a professional discipline defined by professional standards and practice grounded in scientific knowledge, evidence-informed decision making, and ethical responsibility. This practice is supported by ontological, epistemological, and theoretical foundations that enable nurses to address the complexities of human health and illness. Viewed through the lens of metamodernism, nursing is further affirmed as a profession in which authority and identity are continually enacted through the integration of scientific rigor and relational care, standardization and contextual responsiveness, and technical competence and moral accountability. Thus, we affirm that nursing stands as a profession and that nurses are professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":50857,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Nursing Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Nursing Science","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000626","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Nursing is a professional discipline defined by professional standards and practice grounded in scientific knowledge, evidence-informed decision making, and ethical responsibility. This practice is supported by ontological, epistemological, and theoretical foundations that enable nurses to address the complexities of human health and illness. Viewed through the lens of metamodernism, nursing is further affirmed as a profession in which authority and identity are continually enacted through the integration of scientific rigor and relational care, standardization and contextual responsiveness, and technical competence and moral accountability. Thus, we affirm that nursing stands as a profession and that nurses are professionals.
期刊介绍:
Consistently ranked as one of the most-read and most assigned journals by faculties of graduate programs in nursing, Advances in Nursing Science (ANS) is intellectually challenging, innovative and progressive, and features articles from a wide range of scholarly traditions. The journal particularly encourages works that speak to the need for global sustainability and that take an intersectional approach, recognizing class, color, sexual and gender identity, and other dimensions of human experience related to health. Articles in ANS are peer-reviewed and chosen for their pioneering perspectives and for their significance in contributing the evolution of the discipline of nursing.