Nursing Praxis Knowledge and Action

by Sally E. Thorne; Virginia E. Hayes

• ISBN13: 9780761900115
• ISBN10: 076190011X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-11
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

With the evolution of nursing knowledge and theory, relationships between ideas and actions often become blurred and difficult to articulate. In this groundbreaking volume, the editors present some of the ways nursing scholars are confronting this problem by reflecting on the nature of nursing knowledge and the application of theory in practice. The book is divided into three sections that address the nature of knowledge in clinical practice, the application of theoretical knowledge, and the creation of new forms and avenues for inquiry. Individual chapters focus on a variety of issues and perspectives, including knowledge about the patient; the practice setting and technology; enlightenment in nursing; implications of the caring competence dichotomy; the development and nature of thinking in nursing as a feminist nursing action; praxis and nursing education; the influence of postmodern feminism; consciousness raising; nursing ethics; and social activism and action research as methodology. Filling a great need in the nursing profession, Nursing Praxis will be important reading for nurse scholars, researchers, and advanced professionals.

Table of Contents

Praxis in the Context of Nursing's Developing Inquiry

PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER - J L Johnson and P A Ratner

The Nature of the Knowledge Used in Nursing Practice - J Liaschenko

Knowing the Patient? - F Ndidi and U Griffin

Discovering Knowledge in a Practice Setting - V E Hayes

Searching for Family Nursing Practice Knowledge - M Sandelowski

Knowing and Forgetting

The Challenge of Technology for a Reflexive Practice Science of Nursing

PART TWO: APPLIED THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE - D Trainor

Enlightenment in Nursing - S Halldorsdottir

Implications of the Caring-Competence Dichotomy - M Jones

Thinking Nursing - S Miller

Multiple Paradigms for Nursing

Postmodern Feminisms - D J Henderson

Counsciousness Raising as a Feminist Nursing Action

Promise and Practice, Present and Future - C Varcoe

The Revolution Never Ends

Challenges of Praxis for Nursing Education

PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY INQUIRY - L E Maxwell

Foundation Thought in the Development of Knowledge for Social Change - R Starzomski and P Rodney

Nursing Inquiry for the Common Good - E L S Angerami and F A Correia

Health Knowledge and the Praxis of Otherness

The Case in the Developing World - S Rasmussen

Action Research as Authentic Methodology for the Study of Nursing - J McCormick and J Roussy

A Feminist Poststructuralist Orientation to Nursing Praxis