Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing: Theory and Process

By Maeona K. Kramer, Peggy L. Chinn, Maeona K. Kramer APRN PhD, et al.

This comprehensive resource examines how nursing theory and patterns of knowing affect nursing practice. In addition to the concepts of ethical knowledge, aesthetic knowledge, and empiric knowledge development, you'll learn about the newest pattern of knowing - emancipatory knowing. This pattern centers on the human capacity to create change by envisioning desired outcomes, particularly in situations that involve injustice or social wrongs. Throughout the book, helpful activities encourage you to reflect on important concepts and explore how evidence-based nursing theory can be used to improve the quality of care.A full-color insert visually demonstrates the fundamentals of knowing and includes the new concept of emancipatory knowing.Comprehensive discussions of nursing theory help you understand how theory development and nursing research apply to actual practice.Interpretive Summaries of selected conceptual frameworks highlight the essential features you need to know.A new chapter - Emancipatory Knowing: Knowing for Practice - emphasizes the importance of discovering what lies beneath issues and problems, redefining these issues and problems to reveal connections between complex social and political contexts, and then acting to address the underlying issues.Reflection and Discussion sections at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and encourage further discussion and reflective writing.The concept of using evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care is incorporated throughout, as well as how evidence-based practice contributes to theory development.Updated information on theory development incorporates the influence of emancipatory knowing and helps you connect theory and knowledge to your own experiences and everyday nursing practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323052703
• ISBN13: 9780323052702
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Integrated Theory

I took an interdisciplinary course taught by a nurse. This book was applicable to my field even though I'm not nursing. Great explanations of concepts for a student who has never studied nursing theory.

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A brilliant text reflective of years of thinking, reflection, and nursing knowledge and practice

I have followed Peggy Chinn's work for many years and think this text reflects the value of her continued thinking, processing, and writing... This text represents her continued thinking, reflective, conceptualizations regarding nursing theory and the relevance to current nursing practice. The concept of "empancipatory knowing" is so relevant and, in my view, a brilliant description of a process of continued reflection and theoretical knowing....the conceptual processes through which expert nurses, literally, "come to know,"...an "in-depth knowing" of nursing phenomena, nursing process, and theory.... Where Chinn's text does not read like a Cherry Ames novel, it contains the "essence" and brilliance of her knowledge and thinking about nursing theory. It is a phenomenal text, as is her Peace and Power text. Chinn is truly one of the most brilliant thinkers, theorists, and peace practitioners in nursing that I have had the privelege of knowing. She talks very casually about nursing theory and peace processes inherent in nursing education and practice. I am grateful that I have had the pleasure of reviewing, using, critiqueing, and discussing, with her, the peace and process theory inherent in this work also. Peggy Chinn is truly a nursing theorist of substance and distinction. I am priveleged to have been able to "know" and, I think, "understand". I am very interested in continuing the discussions and dialogue.

Personal review of Chinn and Kramer: Integ. Theory and Knowledge Devel. in Nsg.

This book was mandated by my masters program. It is well written and very interesting with tons of worthwhile information. It will change yours views, open your eyes and help you grow in your own practice.