ArticleNursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2026
Staying With the Trouble in Nursing 12.5 Hours at a Time.
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- Staying With the Trouble in Nursing 12.5 Hours at a Time.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026Article
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Abstract
This paper proposes a reconceptualisation of clinical care as a site from which philosophy is produced, rather than a domain to which it is applied. Centreing on a speculative vignette drawn from emergency nursing, I introduce the concept of the event of nursing to name those moments where relational, material, and institutional forces exceed protocol and call for situated, embodied ethical judgement. Through this lens, nursing practice is not the application of philosophical ethics, but an already-theorising practice; one that enacts, improvises, and sustains a posthuman ethics in real time. Drawing on Spinoza, Barad, Haraway, Braidotti, and Deleuze and Guattari, I argue that nursing's entangled thinking-feeling-doing constitutes a form of knowledge irreducible to either abstraction or procedure. I frame response-ability as the immanent composition of powers (conatus), read diffractively, tracing how care is produced through the navigation of competing temporalities, machinic infrastructures, and affective pressures. With the risks of epistemic violence of algorithmic governance and linear reasoning, I offer three speculative propositions: 'assemblage notes,' 'situated adequacy metrics,' and 'posthuman night rounds.' These gestures aim not to reform systems but to make legible the improvisational labour that sustains care amid constraint. The event of nursing, I suggest, offers philosophy a model of ethics grounded in affective intelligence, situated multiplicity, and infrastructural friction, a way of staying with the trouble, 12 h at a time.
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