Theoretical nursing : development and progress

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007
Edition4th ed.
Subjects
Online AccessObsah
ISBN9780781736732 0-7817-3673-0
Physical Descriptionxix, 807 s. : il. ; 24 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • 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