Where does nursing knowledge come from and how does it develop? How do we incorporate nursing knowledge into the practice of nursing? Is it possible for nursing theory to meet the needs of clinical practice? These are key questions in the field of nursing theory, answered here in this ground-breaking work. Based on their five-year experience as co-chairs of the New England Knowledge Conferences, Sister Callista Roy and Dorothy Jones have edited an address to the issues of how nursing knowledge develops and how the theory informs the practice. Here in one concise volume is an in-depth articulation of the science of nursing, its acquisition, and its incorporation into the needs of the clinical nursing environment. The editors concentrate on four major themes; the current state of nursing knowledge, the philosophy of nursing knowledge, integrating nursing knowledge with practice, and examples of the impact on patient health and care when nursing knowledge is applied. More than a just treatise on knowledge theory, Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice brings concrete examples of how, once acquired, nursing knowledge can improve nursing practice and gives a greater picture of the state of nursing theory today and for the future.
Contributor List; Preface; Part I: State of the Art of Nursing Knowledge: Visions and Issues; * Advances in Nursing Knowledge and the Challenge for Transforming Practice, Callista Roy; * Elaborating the Tradition of Careful Nursing in Ireland, Therese C. Meehan; * The Role of Terminology in Identifying the Content of the Discipline, Marcelline R. Harris and Judith R. Graves; * Mid-range Theory: Impact on Knowledge Development and Use in Practice, Elizabeth R. Lenz; * 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 Nobrega, Telma Ribeiro Garcia and Matthew Coler-Thayer; * Challenge to Action, Peggy L. Chinn; Part II: Philosophical Basis for Knowledge; * Knowledge as Problem Solving, Beth L. Rodgers; * Experiencing the Whole (State of the Art), Margaret A. Newman and Dorothy A. Jones; * Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis in Nursing, Janice Thompson; * Knowledge as Universal Cosmic Imperative, Callista Roy; * A Synthesis of Three Philosophical Perspectives for Knowledge Development, Dorothy A. Jones; Part III: Integrated Knowledge for Nursing Practice; Toward an Integrated Epistemology for Nursing, Hesook Suzie Kim; * Moderate Realism as an Approach to Integrated Knowledge for Practice, Yi-Hui Liu; * Critical Narrative Epistemology, Hesook Suzie Kim; * Language as Key to the Discipline, Joanne McClosky Dochterman and Dorothy A. Jones; * Understanding Suffering from a Cosmic Imperative, Ruth Palan Lopez; * Integrated Nursing Knowledge: A Pre-Requisite for Systems' Re-Design, Carolyn A. Padovano; *; Part IV: Impact on Health and Patient Care: Exemplars for the Future; * Margaret Newman's Theory and Research Method: A Case Illustration, Anne-Marie Barron; * The Nursing Theory and Practice Link: Creating a Healing Environment within the Preadmission Nursing Practice, Jane Flanagan; * Linking Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice in Weight Management, Diane Berry; * Evolution of a Method in Knowledge Assimilation: Case Study in Chronic Illness, Nancy Dluhy; * Unity, Diversity, Conformism, and Chaos: Applications of Roy's Epistemology of the Universal Cosmic Imperative, Debra R. Hanna; * Global Applications of the Cosmic Imperative for Nursing Knowledge Development, Donna J. Perry and Katherine Gregory; Appendix: History of the New England Knowledge Conferences; Index.
