Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy /
Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy / Mark W. Risjord - Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010 - xviii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prehistory 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. Postnursing 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.
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.
9781405184342
NURSING -- PHILOSOPHY
RT 84.5 .R57 2010
Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy / Mark W. Risjord - Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010 - xviii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prehistory 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. Postnursing 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.
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.
9781405184342
NURSING -- PHILOSOPHY
RT 84.5 .R57 2010