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020 _a9781444315516
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020 _a9781444315523 (electronic bk.)
020 _a1444315528 (electronic bk.)
020 _a1282313215
020 _a9781282313217
020 _a1405184345 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
020 _a9781405184342 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
020 _a(pbk. ; alk. paper)
100 _aRisjord, Mark W. [1960-]
245 0 _aNursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy
_h[electronic resource]
260 _aChichester, West Sussex; Ames, Iowa :
_bBlackwell Pub.,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource (pages)
505 _atext
505 _aPre-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.
505 _aPost-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.
520 _aRemote
520 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aNurses 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.
710 _aWiley InterScience (Online service)
856 _u#gotoholdings
_yAccess resource
942 _2NLM
999 _c58790
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