Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy / Mark Risjord.
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- 9781405184342 (pbk.) :
- 610.73 22
- RT84.5 .R57 2010
- WY 86
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610.7301 PEA Nursing models for practice / | 610.7301 PEA Nursing models for practice / | 610.7301 REE Philosophy for nursing. | 610.7301 RIS Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy / | 610.7301 ROY The Roy adaptation model / | 610.7301 SMI Nursing theories and nursing practice / | 610.7301 TAY Reflective practice for healthcare professionals : a practical guide / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pre-history of the problem -- Opening the relevance gap -- Toward a philosophy of nursing science -- Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base -- Models of value-laden science -- Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge -- The nursing standpoint -- Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science -- Echoes in nursing -- Rejecting the received view --
Post-nursing theory inquiry -- The structure of theory -- Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory -- Consequences of contextualism -- Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory -- The rise of qualitative research -- What is a paradigm? -- Methodological separatism and reconciliation -- Redrawing the map.
Nurses who conduct research have a longstanding interest in questions of nursing knowledge. 'Nursing Knowledge' is a clear and well-informed exposition of the philosophical background to nursing theory and research.
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