Thoughts About the Metaparadigm of Nursing

Contemporary Status and Recommendations for Evolution

Fawcett, Jacqueline RN; PhD; FAAN

¹Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA

Nursing Science Quarterly 36(3):p 303-305, July 2023. | DOI: 10.1177/08943184231169770

In this essay, I present my original and most recent versions of nursing’s disciplinary metaparadigm, along with others’ versions of the metaparadigm. I conclude the essay by joining others in issuing a call for decolonization of nursing knowledge, with an emphasis in this essay on decolonizing nursing’s metaparadigm by asking if a metaparadigm is needed and, if so, what its content should be.