Full Description
This esteemed text for graduate-level nursing students focuses on the science and philosophy of nursing knowledge development, with a special emphasis on theory as a tool in developing practice-relevant knowledge. It is distinguished by its focus on practical applications of theory for scholarly, evidence-based approaches. The second edition features important updates and a reorganization of information to better highlight the roles of theory and the major philosophical perspectives in knowledge development. It also introduces two new chapters: The DNP Project: Translating Research Into Knowledge for Practice, and Generating Knowledge in Practice. Summary Points and Questions for Reflection at the end of each chapter help to reinforce knowledge.
The text offers a comprehensive overview of the philosophy and history of science, the structures of nursing knowledge, and a path for knowledge development. It is unique in its reach beyond the traditional views about theory in nursing. It advocates equipping practitioners as well as other nurses with the tools to make theory more relevant to their own practice and to inspire confidence to be active participants in building knowledge for nursing. The text will help students become aware of their own philosophical and theoretical ideas and knowledge embedded in their practice and to learn strategies for developing theory-based knowledge—strategies that are practice relevant and practice based.
NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:
New chapters: The DNP Project: Translating Research Into Knowledge for Practice and Generating Knowledge in Practice
Reorganization of material to better highlight the roles of theory and the major philosophical perspectives in knowledge development
Summary Points at the end of each chapter
KEY FEATURES:
Balances theoretical and philosophical ideas with practical perspectives
Includes concrete strategies for knowledge development
Explicates the shared and distinct roles of DNP and PhD nurses in knowledge development
Introduces "intermodernism" to support practice-based theory and knowledge development
Introduces "Interludes" whereby readers can examine specific strategies of knowledge development
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Spiral Path of Nursing Knowledge
Pamela G. Reed
2. A Philosophy of Nursing Science and Practice: Intermodernism
Pamela G. Reed
3. Doctoral Nursing Roles in Knowledge Generation
Donna M. Velasquez, Donna Behler McArthur, and Catherine Johnson
4. Practitioner-Centered Research: Nursing Praxis and the Science of the Unique
Gary Rolfe
5. Interlude I: The Mandala and Discovering Nursing Worldviews
Nelma B. Crawford Shearer
6. The DNP Project: Translating Research Into Knowledge for Practice
Jennifer Ruel, Donna Behler McArthur, and Pamela G. Reed
7. Interlude II: Mindfulness and Knowledge Development in Nursing Practice
Catherine Johnson
8. Creating a Nursing Intervention out of a Passion for Theory and Practice
Nelma B. Crawford Shearer
9. Interlude III: Practitioner as Theorist: A Nurse's Toolkit for Theoretical Thinking in Nursing
Pamela G. Reed
10. Clinical Scholarship: History and Future Possibilities
Rene Love
11. Generating Knowledge in Practice: Philosophical and Methodological Considerations
Pamela G. Reed and Barbara B. Brewer
12. Interlude IV: Community-Based Nursing Praxis as a Catalyst for Generating Knowledge
Cathleen Michaels
13. A Paradigm for the Production of Practice-Based Knowledge: Philosophical and Practical Considerations
Pamela G. Reed
14. Interlude V: Steps in Reformulating a Nursing Practice Concept: Empowerment as an Example
Nelma B. Crawford Shearer and Pamela G. Reed
15. The Practice Turn and Nursing Theory Innovation
Pamela G. Reed
Index
