Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice

Description

Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition continues as an essential source for articles addressing both philosophical and theoretical topics with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, values, person-centered care, and global perspectives. Similar to the previous edition, the Fifth Edition features a more selective and contemporary range of views and articles. In addition to comprehensive section openers, the selected articles enable students not only to understand nursing theories but also apply them effectively in nursing practice. Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition contains expanded introductory sections, new material on evidence-based practice addressing patient autonomy and control of care, and discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

Key Features

This unique text:

• Represents a more selective and contemporary range of views compared to similar texts
• Is written for students and is very user-friendly
• Examines contemporary issues around evidence- and values-based practice
• Supports person-centered care and transformation of practice

It also contains nine new articles:

• A Practice Discipline that’s Here and Now
• Philosophic Position on Nature of Human Being Foundational to Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
• Relational Practice and Nursing Obligations
• Rapture and Suffering with Technology in Nursing
• Exploring an Alternative Metaphor for Nursing: Relinquishing Military Images and Language
• Nursing Practice with Aboriginal Communities: Expanding Worldviews
• Optimizing Nursing Care by Integrating Theory-Driven Evidence-Based Practice
• What will count as evidence in the year 2050?
• An Ontological View of Advanced Practice Nursing

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

Author(s)

William K. Cody, RN, PhD, FAAN-Presbyterian School of Nursing - Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, North Carolina

William Cody is Dean of the Presbyterian School of Nursing at Queens University of Charlotte. He was Chair of Family and Community Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1997 to 2005, and has 27 years of experience in nursing. Cody holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Regents College, Albany, NY, a master's in nursing from Hunter College, and a PhD, in nursing from the University of South Carolina. The author of nearly 100 publications on theory, research, and practice in nursing, Cody is perhaps best known as former Contributing Editor for Theoretical Concerns at Nursing Science Quarterly. Cody is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, which promotes senior leadership in healthcare. He is active in community health and HIV/AIDS care, and is a national leader in the contemporary nursing center movement.