Developing a Philosophy of Nursing, Part 489

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SAGE, 1994 - Medical - 126 pages
What is a philosophy of nursing? What is required for its development? How is it related to contemporary conceptualizations of nursing? Answers to these and other questions are pursued by leading nursing scholars in this important new book.

It will help the researcher gain a better grasp of what it will take to establish a sound philosophical basis for the development of nursing practice, education, research and administration.

 

Contents

Clarifying the Nature and Place of a Philosophy of Nursing
1
Part I Establishing Common Ground in Nursing Philosophy
7
What is it? What is it Not?
11
Chapter 2 Commentary
20
Chapter 3 Commentary
25
Chapter 4 Commentary
33
Part II Accommodating Diversity in Nursing Philosophy
39
Discovering? Constructing? Evolving?
43
Part III Articulating a Sound Philosophy of Nursing
75
Threat or Promise?
79
Is Historical Nursing Knowledge Necessary?
95
Chapter 10 Some Further Thoughts on the Ethics of Nursing Rhetoric
104
Making Progress in Developing a Sound Philosophy of Nursing
110
Index
113
About the Editors
121
About the Contributors
123

Problem or Solution?
61
Is it Desirable? Is it Practicable?
67

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