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With the evolution of nursing knowledge and theory, relationships between ideas and actions often become blurred and difficult to articulate. In this ground-breaking volume, the contributors present some of the ways in which nursing scholars are confronting this problem by reflecting upon the nature of nursing knowledge and the application of theory in practice. The book is divided into three sections that address: the nature of knowledge in clinical practice; the application of theoretical knowledge; and the creation of new forms and avenues of inquiry.
List of contents
Praxis in the Context of Nursing's Developing Inquiry - S E Thorne
PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER
The Nature of the Knowledge Used in Nursing Practice - J L Johnson and P A Ratner
Knowing the Patient? - J Liaschenko
Discovering Knowledge in a Practice Setting - F Ndidi and U Griffin
Searching for Family Nursing Practice Knowledge - V E Hayes
Knowing and Forgetting - M Sandelowski
The Challenge of Technology for a Reflexive Practice Science of Nursing
PART TWO: APPLIED THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE
Enlightenment in Nursing - D Trainor
Implications of the Caring-Competence Dichotomy - S Halldorsdottir
Thinking Nursing - M Jones
Multiple Paradigms for Nursing - S Miller
Postmodern Feminisms
Counsciousness Raising as a Feminist Nursing Action - D J Henderson
Promise and Practice, Present and Future
The Revolution Never Ends - C Varcoe
Challenges of Praxis for Nursing Education
PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY INQUIRY
Foundation Thought in the Development of Knowledge for Social Change - L E Maxwell
Nursing Inquiry for the Common Good - R Starzomski and P Rodney
Health Knowledge and the Praxis of Otherness - E L S Angerami and F A Correia
The Case in the Developing World
Action Research as Authentic Methodology for the Study of Nursing - S Rasmussen
A Feminist Poststructuralist Orientation to Nursing Praxis - J McCormick and J Roussy
