Philosophical Perspectives on Trustworthiness and Open-mindedness as Professional Virtues for the Practice of Nursing: Implications for he Moral Education of Nurses



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



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