Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy
Risjord, Mark W. [1960-]
Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy - Chichester, West Sussex; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2010 - 1 online resource (pages)
text 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.
Remote Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Nursing Knowledge answers such fundamental questions as: How is nursing theory related to nursing practice? What are the core elements of nursing knowledge? What makes nursing research distinctive as nursing research? It examines the history of the philosophical debates within nursing, critiques the arguments, explains the implications and sets out to rethink the philosophical fo.
9781444315516 144431551X 9781444315523 (electronic bk.) 1444315528 (electronic bk.) 1282313215 9781282313217 1405184345 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781405184342 (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy - Chichester, West Sussex; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2010 - 1 online resource (pages)
text 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.
Remote Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Nursing Knowledge answers such fundamental questions as: How is nursing theory related to nursing practice? What are the core elements of nursing knowledge? What makes nursing research distinctive as nursing research? It examines the history of the philosophical debates within nursing, critiques the arguments, explains the implications and sets out to rethink the philosophical fo.
9781444315516 144431551X 9781444315523 (electronic bk.) 1444315528 (electronic bk.) 1282313215 9781282313217 1405184345 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781405184342 (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)