This opinion paper introduces metamodernism in nursing, highlighting its potential to enhance epistemic agility amid complex challenges.
This opinion paper builds on Reed’s neomodernism in nursing to introduce metamodernism, an emerging, yet-to-be-developed philosophical stance that fosters epistemic agility in navigating complex sociopolitical, legal, interdisciplinary, and technological challenges timely and responsively. Metamodernism enables movement in nursing knowledge development between empiricism and rationalism, standardization and context, skepticism and sincerity, and systems innovation and disciplinary orthodoxy. Through its oscillating logic, metamodernism cultivates a layered epistemology grounded in relational ontology, reflexivity, pluralism, and ethical discernment. This framework allows nursing to develop knowledge with intentionality, adaptability, and moral presence, equipping the discipline to meet the demands of an increasingly complex and uncertain world.
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