Nursing Theories: Conceptual & Philosophical Foundations

by Kim, Hesook Suzie

• ISBN13: 9780826140050
• ISBN10: 082614005X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

This second edition is the perfect companion to original theoretical works in nursing for a better understanding of both the theories themselves and the essential questions about nursing theory development. Rather than being a nursing theory survey, the text provides the reader with a deeper understanding of nursing theories through examining them in their conceptual and philosophical contexts. This is a work of international collaboration, with distinguished nurse scholars from the United States, Germany, and Norway, organized around major themes in nursing and health care into which information on specific nursing theories is integrated. It is designed for advanced nursing students, educators, and others interested in nursing theory and concepts. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
1 Introduction	1	(9)
Hesook Suzie Kim
2 Human Needs and Nursing Theory	10	(17)
Jacqueline Fortin
3 Adaptation As a Basic Conceptual Focus in Nursing Theories	27	(15)
Donna Schwartz-Barcott
4 The Concept of Self-Care	42	(12)
Ingrid Kollak
5 The Concept of Interaction in Theory and Practice	54	(17)
Susanne Wied
6 The Concept of Need in Nursing Theory	71	(18)
Penny Powers
7 The Concept of Holism	89	(20)
Hesook Suzie Kim
8 Systems Theory and Nursing Theories	109	(32)
Heiko Kleve
9 Existentialism and Phenomenology in Nursing Theories	141	(16)
Hesook Suzie Kim
10 Humanism in Nursing Theory: A Focus on Caring	157	(27)
May Solveig Fagermoen
11 Pragmatism, Nursing, and Nursing Knowledge Development	184	(18)
Hesook Suzie Kim and Björn Sjöström
12 Biography and Biographical Work: An Approach for Nursing	202	(13)
Barbara Schulte-Steinicke
13 Evidence-Based Nursing for Practice and Science	215	(21)
Martina Hasseler
14 Transculturality and Nursing	236	(23)
Birgit Rommelspacher
15 Illness As Risk: On the Genesis and Functioning of Therapeutic Deinstitutionalization	259	(29)
Friedrich Balke
16 Postscript	288	(6)
Ingrid Kollak and Susanne Wied
Appendix A: Synopsis of Selected Nursing Theories and Conceptual Models	294	(8)
Hesook Suzie Kim
Appendix B: Selected Middle-Range Theories in Nursing	302	(3)
Hesook Suzie Kim
Index	305