Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice

by Roy, Sister Callista

• ISBN13: 9780826102997
• ISBN10: 0826102999
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Where does nursing knowledge come from and how does it develop? How do we incorporate nusring knowledge into the practice of nursing? Is it possible for nursing theory to meet the needs of clinical practice? These aare key questions in the field of nursin

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Part I: State of the Art of Nursing Knowledge: Visions and Issues
Advances in Nursing Knowledge and the Challenge for Transforming Practice	3	(36)
Sister Callista Roy
Elaborating the Tradition of Careful Nursing in Ireland	39	(12)
Therese C. Meehan
The Role of Terminology in Identifying the Content of the Discipline	51	(10)
Marcelline R. Harris
Judith R. Graves
Mid-Range Theory: Impact on Knowledge Development and Use in Practice	61	(18)
Elizabeth R. Lenz
Linking the Nature of the Person With the Nature of Nursing Through Nursing Theory and Practice and Nursing Language in Brazil	79	(14)
Marga Simon Coler
Maria Miriam Lima da Nobrega
Telma Ribeiro Garcia
Matthew Coler-Thayer
Challenge to Action	93	(14)
Peggy L. Chinn
Part II: Philosophical Basis for Knowledge
Knowledge as Problem Solving	107	(12)
Beth L. Rodgers
Experiencing the Whole: Health as Expanding Consciousness (State of the Art)	119	(10)
Margaret A. Newman
Dorothy A. Jones
Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis in Nursing	129	(16)
Janice Thompson
Knowledge as Universal Cosmic Imperative	145	(18)
Sister Callista Roy
A Synthesis of Philosophical Perspectives for Knowledge Development	163	(18)
Dorothy A. Jones
Part III: Integrated Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Toward an Integrated Epistemology for Nursing	181	(10)
Hesook Suzie Kim
Moderate Realism as an Approach to Integrated Knowledge for Practice	191	(10)
Yi-Hui Liu
Critical Narrative Epistemology	201	(14)
Hesook Suzie Kim
Unifying Nursing Language: Communicating Nursing Practice	215	(18)
Joanne McClosky Dochterman
Dorothy A. Jones
Understanding Suffering From a Cosmic Imperative	233	(14)
Ruth Palan Lopez
Integrated Nursing Knowledge: A Prerequisite for Systems' Redesign	247	(20)
Carolyn A. Padovano
Part IV: Impact on Health and Patient Care---Exemplars for the Future
Margaret Newman's Theory and Research Method: A Case Illustration	267	(8)
Anne-Marie Barron
The Nursing Theory and Practice Link: Creating a Healing Environment Within the Preadmission Nursing Practice	275	(12)
Jane Flanagan
Linking Theory. Research, and Clinical Practice in Weight Management	287	(8)
Diane Berry
Evolution of a Method in Knowledge Assimilation: Case Study in Chronic Illness	295	(12)
Nancy Dluhy
Unity, Diversity, Conformism, and Chaos: Applications of Roy's Epistemology of the Universal Cosmic Imperative	307	(8)
Debra R. Hanna
Global Applications of the Cosmic Imperative for Nursing Knowledge Development	315	(12)
Donna J. Perry
Katherine E. Gregory
Appendix: History of New England Knowledge Conferences	327	(4)
Index	331