护理哲学为讨论与护理有关的哲学问题提供了一个论坛。这些讨论可能集中于与护理的性质有关的问题以及与之密切相关的现象。例如，任何对什么是护理的理解都是以护士在护理时想要做什么为前提的。但是护理的目的是什么呢?它们是促进健康、预防疾病、促进福祉、增强自治、减轻痛苦，还是这些的某种组合?如何达到这些目的?护士需要什么样的知识?实用的、理论的、美学的、道德的、政治的、直觉的还是其他的?
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Nursing Philosophy provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues related to nursing. These discussions might 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 to be met? What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, 'intuitive' or some other?
