... although having their basis in the experimental positivist tradition, have contributed substantially to nursing knowledge (Tierney, 1973; Boore, 1978; Metcalf, 1982; Pearson, 1985; Armitage, 1990; McKenna, 1992).
This text offers step-by-step guidelines on: * how to analyse concepts * how to generate and select theory * how to apply and test theory in practice.
Beginning with Florence Nightingale, the book covers 17 major nursing theorists and their work through the contemporaryera. The book is one in a series of supplemental study guides for nursing topics.
These three volumes will cover the scope of international publications in nursing knowledge, models and theories and take a critical, retrospective review of these works.
This text offers step-by-step guidelines on: * how to analyse concepts * how to generate and select theory * how to apply and test theory in practice.