Theoretical nursing
Subtitle: development and progress
By: Afaf Ibrahim Meleis.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 807
ISBN-13: 9780781736732
Subjects: Nursing -- Philosophy.; Nursing Theory.
Description: xix, 807 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Positioning for the journey; title: On being and becoming a scholar; title: Theory: metaphors, symbols, definitions; title: From can't to Kant: barriers and forces toward theoretical thinking; title: On the way to theoretical nursing: stages and milestones; title: Nursing theory: mirror, microscope, or telescope; title: Theory development: sources, resources, and paradoxes; title: Strategies for concept development; title: Strategies for theory development; title: Developing middle range and situation-specific theories: exemplars; title: A model for evaluation of theories: description, analysis, critique, testing, and support; title: On nursing clients; title: On interactions; title: On human being-environment interactions; title: On nursing therapeutics; title: The discipline of nursing: a perspective, a domain, and definitions; title: Our syntax: an epistemological analysis; title: Development and progress: theories and challenges; title: Historical writings in theory; title: Historical and current theory bibliography.