REFORMING THE PRACTICE OF NURSES - DECOLONIZATION OR GETTING OUT FROMUNDER

The practice of nurses has been formed and informed by many disciplina ry discourses. We argue that this leads to the subjugation and coloniz ation of nurses' practices and the discipline, By debating and challen ging current developments in knowledge the opportunity is created for nurses to reform representations of our practices in a way that can pr ivilege diversity, complexity and ambiguity, In particular, modernism and postmodernism are critiqued to highlight the impact of particular philosophical traditions on the practices of nurses.