Nursing knowledge development and clinical practice / editors, Sister Callista Roy, Dorothy A. Jones.

Other author Roy, Callista.
Other author Jones, Dorothy A.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents Advances in nursing knowledge and the challenge for transforming practice / Callista Roy -- Elaborating the tradition of careful nursing in Ireland / Therese C. Meehan -- The role of terminology in identifying the content of the discipline / Marcelline R. Harris and Judith R. Graves -- Mid-range theory : impact on knowledge development and use in practice / Elizabeth R. Lenz -- Linking the nature of the person with the nature of nursing through nursing theory and practice and nursing language in Brazil / Marga Simon Coler ... [et al.] -- Challenge to action / Peggy L. Chinn --
Contents Knowledge as problem solving / Beth L. Rodgers -- Experiencing the whole: health as expanding consciousness (state of the art) / Margaret A. Newman and Dorothy A. Jones -- Poststructuralist feminist analysis in nursing / Janice Thompson -- Knowledge as universal cosmic imperative / Callista Roy -- A synthesis of three philosophical perspectives for knowledge development / Dorothy A. Jones --
Contents Toward an integrated epistemology for nursing / Hesook Suzie Kim -- Moderate realism as an approach to integrated knowledge for practice / Yi-Hui Liu -- Critical narrative epistemology / Hesook Suzie Kim -- Unifying nursing language: communicating nursing practice / Joanne McClosky Dochterman and Dorothy A. Jones -- Understanding suffering from a cosmic imperative / Ruth Palan Lopez -- Integrated nursing knowledge : a prerequisite for systems' redesign / Carolyn A. Padovano --
Contents Margaret Newman's theory and research method : a case illustration / Anne-Marie Barron -- The nursing theory and practice link : creating a healing environment within the preadmission nursing practice / Jane Flanagan -- Linking theory, research, and clinical practice in weight management / Diane Berry -- Evolution of a method in knowledge assimilation : case study in chronic illness / Nancy Dluhy -- Unity, diversity, conformism, and chaos : applications of Roy's epistemology of the universal cosmic imperative / Debra R. Hanna -- Global applications of the cosmic imperative for nursing knowledge development / Donna J. Perry and Katherine Gregory.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006022207
ISBN0826102999
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