Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice: Opportunities and Directions

by Callista Roy PhD, RN, FAAN, Dorothy A. Jones EdD, RNC, ANP, FAAN (Editor)

Overview

How does nursing knowledge develop and how do we incorporate this knowledge into the practice of nursing?

Is it possible for nursing theory to address the needs of clinical practice?

These key questions in the field of nursing are explored in this groundbreaking work.

Based on their five-year experience as co-chairs of the New England Knowledge Conferences and the contributions of nurse clinicians and academics, the book addresses issues critical to improving the quality and delivery of health care.

Concentrating on four major themes--the current state of nursing knowledge, the philosophy of nursing knowledge, the integration of nursing knowledge with practice, and examples of the impact on health care delivery when nursing knowledge is applied--Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice gives concrete examples of how nursing knowledge can improve nursing practice and overall health care delivery both today and in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826103253
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/24/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Callista Roy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, has been involved in nursing education for 46 years.

Dorothy A. Jones, EdD, RNC, ANP, FAAN, is a Professor of Adult Health at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, where she formerly served as Chair of the Adult Health Department from 1995 to 1999. She is a Senior Nurse Scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and formerly a President of the Eastern Nursing Resesarch Society.

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Contributors
Preface

Part I: State of the Art of Nursing Knowledge: Visions and Issues

1. Advances in Nursing Knowledge and the Challenge for Transforming Practice, Sister Callista Roy
2. Elaborating the Tradition of Careful Nursing in Ireland, Therese C. Meehan
3. The Role of Terminology in Identifying the Content of the Discipline, Marcelline R. Harris and Judith R. Graves
4. Mid-Range Theory: Impact on Knowledge Development and Use in Practice, Elizabeth R. Lenz
5. Linking the Nature of the Person with the Nature of Nursing through Nursing Theory and Practice and Nursing Language in Brazil, Marga Simon Coler, Maria Miriam Lima da NÛbrega, Telma Ribeiro Garcia, and Matthew Coler-Thayer
6. Challenge to Action, Peggy L. Chinn

Part II: Philosophical Basis for Knowledge

7. Knowledge as Problem Solving, Beth L. Rogers
8. Experiencing the Whole: Health as Expanding Consciousness (State of the Art), Margaret A. Newman and Dorothy A. Jones
9. Poststructuralist Feminist Analyis in Nursing, Janice Thompson
10. Knowledge as Universal Cosmic Imperative, Sister Callista Roy
11. A Synthesis of Philosophical Perspectives for Knowledge Development, Dorothy A. Jones

Part III: Integrated Knowledge for Nursing Practice

12. Toward an Integrated Epistemology for Nursing, Hesook Suzie Kim
13. Moderate Realism as an Approach to Integrated Knowledge for Practice, Yi-Hui Liu
14. Critical Narrative Epistemology, Hesook Suzie Kim
15. Unifying Nursing Language: Communicating Nursing Practice, Joanne McClosky Dochterman and Dorothy A. Jones
16. Understanding Suffering from a Cosmic Perspective, Ruth Palan Lopez
17. Integrated Nursing Knowledge: A Prerequisite for Systems' Redesign, Carolyn A. Padovano

Part IV: Impact on Health and Patient Care--Exemplars for the Future

18. Margaret Newman's Theory and Research Method: A Case Illustration, Anne-Marie Barron
19. The Nursing Theory and Practice Link: Creating a Healing Environment within the Preadmission Nursing Practice, Jane Flanagan
20. Linking Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice in Weight Management, Diane Berry
21. Evolution of a Method in Knowledge Assimilation: Case Study in Chronic Illness, Nancy Dluhy
22. Unity, Diversity, Conformism, and Chaos: Application of Roy's Epistemology of the Universal Cosmic Imperative, Debra R. Hanna
23. Global Applications of the Cosmic Imperative for Nursing Knowledge Development, Donna J. Perry and Katherine E. Gregory

Appendix: History of New England Knowledge Conferences
Index"

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN (Slippery Rock University )
Description: This is a compilation of scholarly papers focusing the development of nursing knowledge and clinical practice for the improvement of healthcare quality and delivery.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to provide the principles and exemplars for improving practice based on nursing knowledge. The goal is to provide a dialogue of how nursing knowledge is envisioned and how it affects practice.
Audience: The target audience is masters and doctoral students and faculty. The authors and contributors are well known nurse scholars.
Features: The book is divided into four parts. Part I focuses on the state of the art of nursing knowledge, including factors influencing nursing knowledge, achievements, and challenges. Part II focuses on the philosophical basis for the future of nursing knowledge development, utilization, and evaluation in clinical and academic settings. Part III focuses on the integration of nursing knowledge into practice. Finally, Part IV provides six exemplars that depict the application of nursing knowledge.
Assessment: This book should be useful to the target audience to foster dialogue on the development of the science of nursing.

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