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This volume provides an in-depth and global study of nursing as a profession. The contributors project patterns about nursing now in to the future and present their views on how the profession should go advance. This volume contains 78 original chapters by 105 contributing authors, many of whom are elected Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.
Directions for Theory Development in Nursing: For an Increased Coherence in the New Century
Directions for Theory Development in Nursing: For an Increased Coherence in the New Century
Nursing's knowledge development during the past three decades has followed multiple paths, shaded by various commitments to different epistemologies and alternative linkages among philosophy, theory, and methods of inquiry. The resulting pluralism in the nursing knowledge system (i.e., pluralism in philosophies, ontology of human nature, theories and scientific explanations, scientific methodology, and conceptualization of nursing practice) raises critical concerns about issues pertaining to both nursing knowledge development and application of knowledge into practice. More than a decade ago, Stevenson and Woods (1986) suggested that nursing seems to have embraced a pluralism based on two philosophies ...
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