Table of Contents

Part 1 The Nursing Discipline and the Development of Nursing Knowledge
Chapter 1 Values-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Care: Pursuing Fundamental Questions in Nursing Philosophy and Theory
Chapter 2 Structuring Nursing Knowledge: A priority for creating nursing’s future
Chapter 3 Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing
Chapter 4 The State of Nursing Science: Hallmarks of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chapter 5 What Constitutes Nursing Science
Chapter 6 Nursing Theory-Based Practice: What It Is and What It Is Not
Chapter 7 A Practice Discipline that’s Here and Now
Part II Conceptualizations of Human Beings, Health, Environment and Nursing Practice
Chapter 8 Nursing, the Ontology of the Discipline
Chapter 9 Philosophic Position on Nature of Human Being Foundational to Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
Chapter 10 Reframing Outcomes: Enhancing Personhood
Chapter 11 Expressing Health through Lifestyle Patterns
Chapter 12 Healing as Appreciating Wholeness
Chapter 13 Thinking Upstream: Nurturing a Conceptual Understanding of the Societal Context of Health Behavior
Chapter 14 Environmental Paradigms: Moving Toward an Ecocentric Perspective
Chapter 15 Nursing Science: The Transformation of Practice
Chapter 16 A Dialectical Examination of Nursing Art
Chapter 17 A Conceptual Framework for Person-Centered Practice with Older People
Chapter 18 Relational Practice and Nursing Obligations
Part III Contemporary Perspectives of Nursing
Chapter 19 Nursing Knowledge and Human Science: Ontological and Epistemological Considerations
Chapter 20 Professionalism and the Evolution of Nursing as a Discipline: A Feminist Perspective
Chapter 21 Rapture and Suffering with Technology in Nursing
Chapter 22 Exploring an Alternative Metaphor for Nursing: Relinquishing Military Images and Language
Chapter 23 Nursing Science in the Global Community
Chapter 24 Nursing Practice with Aboriginal Communities: Expanding Worldviews
Part IV Interrelationships Among Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice
Chapter 25 Optimizing Nursing Care by Integrating Theory-Driven Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 26 On Nursing Theories and Evidence
Chapter 27 Evidence-Based Practice: Critique and Alternative View
Part V The Future of Advanced Nursing Practice
Chapter 28 Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice
Chapter 29 What will count as evidence in the year 2050?
Chapter 30 An Ontological View of Advanced Practice Nursing
Chapter 31 The Nurse Scholar of the 21st Century
Chapter 32 Theoretical and Philosophical Horizons for Nursing Practice