TY  - BOOK
AU  - Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
TI  - Nursing knowledge: science, practice, and philosophy 
SN  - 9781405184342
AV  - RT 84.5 .R57 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, England
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - NURSING -- PHILOSOPHY
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -