Chapter 3: Practices and the practice of nursing 63
Practices 64
Differentsortsofpractices 70
Human Flourishing 72
MacIntyre’s account of human flourishing 73
Human flourishing and more-than-ordinarily vulnerable
persons 75
More-than-ordinarily vulnerable persons and MacIntyre’s
account of human flourishing 76
Nursing as a MacIntyrean practice 79
Defining nursing 79
The range and scope of nursing 79
The rise of the idea of nursing as a science 80
Nursing as a practice 85
The core virtues of a practice 90
Chapter 4: Trust and trustworthiness 94
Background trust 96
The nature of trust 96
Trust as part of a family of ideas 98
Trust and good will 99
Willingness to trust 103
Figure 4.1: willingness to trust (and distrust) as a mean 103
A conception of trust 105
The place of trust in nursing practice 106
The tradition of trust in health care 107
Trust in nursing: personal or professional? 110
Personal trust relationships: friendship 111
Personal trust relationships: kinship 113
Trust relationships in nursing 114
Professional trust relationships 115
Competence and professional trust 116
Independent practical reasoning and trust 117
Trustworthiness 118
Nancy Potter’s account of trustworthiness as a virtue 120
Potter’s ten requirements for full trustworthiness 121
Discussion of Potter’s account of trustworthiness 128
Potter’s ten requirements 128
Potter’s critique of modem moral theory 129
The professional virtue of tmstworthiness 132
Chapter 5: Open-mindedness 135
Open-mindedness as a virtue 135
The nature of open-mindedness 136
Four categories of open-mindedness 139
Being open-minded 140
Two failures of open-mindedness 141
Aiming for open-mindedness 143
Limits to open-mindedness 144