Development & Progress
Fourth Edition
by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis
Theoretical Nursing guides you through the evolution of nursing's theoretical foundations and examines the ways in which these prinicples influence the practice of the discipline.
Features:
- Stimulating content helps you focus on the forces that drive nursing care, education, research, and administration
- Practical perspectives help you integrate your knowledge into a coherent whole that is supported by the values of the discipline and the rights and responsibilities of nurses and their clients
- Reader-friendly layout and design makes critical material easier to access and comprehend
- Expanded content on selecting and evaluating theories enhances your analytical skills and helps you choose appropriate theories for future research
- Broader scope addressing both historical and contemporary issues shows you how nursing theory evolves and influences nursing practice
- Refelctive Questions at the end of each chapter help you review and assimilate key content
Contents
Our Theoretical Journey
- Positioning for the Journey
- On Being and Becoming a Scholar
- Theory: Metaphors, Symbols, Definitions
Our Theoretical Heritage
- 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
Our Epistemology
- Theory Development: Sources, Resources, and Paradoxes
- Strategies for Concept Development
- Strategies for Theory Development
- Developing Middle Range and Situation-Specific Theories: Examples
- A Model for Evaluation of Theories: Description, Analysis, Critique, Testing, and Support
Our Pioneers: The Theorists and the Theories
- On Nursing Clients
- On Interactions
- On Human Being-Environment Interactions
- On Nursing Therapeutics
Our Discipline and Its Structure
- The Discipline of Nursing: A Perspective, A Domain, and Definitions
- Our Syntax: An Epistemological Analysis
- Development and Progress: Theories and Challenges
Our Historical Literature
- Historical Writings in Theory
- Historical and Current Theory Bibliography
Index
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