TY  - BOOK
AU  - Risjord,Mark W.
TI  - Nursing knowledge: science, practice, and philosophy 
SN  - 9781405184342 (pbk.) :
AV  - RT84.5 .R57 2010
U1  - 610.73 RIS 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Nursing Knowledge
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Practice
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Postnursing theory inquiry -- The structure of theory -- Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory -- Consequences of contextualism -- Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory -- The rise of qualitative research -- What is a paradigm? -- Methodological separatism and reconciliation -- Redrawing the map; Prehistory of the problem -- Opening the relevance gap -- Toward a philosophy of nursing science -- Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base -- Models of value-laden science -- Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge -- The nursing standpoint -- Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science -- Echoes in nursing -- Rejecting the received view --
N2  - Nurses who conduct research have a longstanding interest in questions of nursing knowledge. 'Nursing Knowledge' is a clear and well-informed exposition of the philosophical background to nursing theory and research
ER  -