Theoretical nursing : development and progress
Print Book, English, c2007
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia ; London, c2007
xix, 807 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
9780781736732, 0781736730
1088813447
Positioning for the journey
On being and becoming a scholar
Theory: metaphors, symbols, definitions
From can’t to Kant: barriers and forces toward theoretical thinking
On the way to theoretical nursing: stages and milestones
Nursing theory: mirror, microscope, or telescope
Theory development: sources, resources, and paradoxes
Strategies for concept development
Strategies for theory development
Developing middle range and situation-specific theories: exemplars
A model for evaluation of theories: description, analysis, critique, testing, and support
On nursing clients
On interactions
On human being-environment interactions
On nursing therapeutics
The discipline of nursing: a perspective, a domain, and definitions
Our syntax: an epistemological analysis
Development and progress: theories and challenges
Historical writings in theory
Historical and current theory bibliography