Theoretical nursing
Subtitle: development and progress
By: Afaf Ibrahim Meleis
Edition: 3rd ed., rev. reprint
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 739
Subjects: Nursing -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (515-705) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Theory: who needs it... what is it?; title: On the way to theoretical nursing; title: From can't to Kant; title: Toward the development of the discipline of nursing; title: Nursing perspective; title: The domain of nursing knowledge; title: Bedpans and Spinoza; title: Patterns of knowing; title: Hypatia, Hatshepsut, and nurses as scholars; title: Nursing theory; title: Strategies for concept development; title: Strategies for theory development; title: A model for evaluation of theories; title: On nursing clients; title: On human being-environment interactions; title: On interactions; title: On nursing therapeutics; title: Theoretical thinking and practical wisdom; title: Analysis of theoretical writing in nursing; title: Metatheory and theory bibliography