ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to present the author’s personal perspective of the knowledge of the discipline of nursology, which is conceptualized as a holarchy of components – metaparadigm, philosophies, conceptual models, theories, and empirical and other types of indicators to measure or record the diverse concepts of interest to the various members of the discipline. This perspective accepts the existence of multiple epistemologies, which reflects the nursology disciplinary commitment to embracing diverse ways of knowing that facilitate a holistic approach to practice and related research and other scholarly endeavors about and with individuals and populations. The chapter contents address the author’s personal beliefs of what constitutes nursology knowledge, an explanation for the components of the holarchy of nursology knowledge, and thoughts about how nursology knowledge is found to be or not to be empirically adequate from a post-positivist theory-laden philosophy. The chapter ends with a brief discussion of the need to decolonize nursology knowledge, moving away from an exclusive Euro-centric White privilege perspective so to render nursology knowledge inclusive of all cultural understandings of knowledge.
