TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meleis,Afaf Ibrahim
TI  - Theoretical nursing: development and progress 
SN  - 9780781736732 (hbk.) :
AV  - RT84.5 .M45 2007
U1  - 610.7301 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Philadelphia, Pa., London
PB  - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Nursing Theory
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Positioning for the journey -- On being and becoming a scholar -- Theory: metaphors, symbols, definitions -- From can't to Kant: barriers and forces toward theoretical thinking -- On the way to theoretical nursing: stages and milestones -- Nursing theory: mirror, microscope, or telescope -- Theory development: sources, resources, and paradoxes -- Strategies for concept development -- Strategies for theory development -- Developing middle range and situation-specific theories: exemplars -- A model for evaluation of theories: description, analysis, critique, testing, and support -- On nursing clients -- On interactions -- On human being-environment interactions -- On nursing therapeutics -- The discipline of nursing: a perspective, a domain, and definitions -- Our syntax: an epistemological analysis -- Development and progress: theories and challenges -- Historical writings in theory -- Historical and current theory bibliography
ER  -