| Table of Contents |
| UNIT 1 | Structures of Nursing Knowledge Development | |
| ch. 1 | Nursing Theory and Practice: Connecting the Dots / Lois W. Lowry | 2 |
| ch. 2 | Yes, Virginia, Nursing Does Have Laws / Pamela B. Webber | 10 |
| ch. 3 | Philosophy, Science, Theory: Interrelationships and Implications for Nursing Research / Mary Cipriano Silva | 17 |
| ch. 4 | On Nursing Theories and Evidence / Joyce J. Fitzpatrick | 23 |
| ch. 5 | Integration of Nursing Theory and Nursing Ethics / Michael Yeo | 30 |
| ch. 6 | A Treatise on Nursing Knowledge Development for the 21st Century: Beyond Postmodernism / Pamela G. Reed | 37 |
| UNIT 2 | The Inseparability of Theory and Practice | |
| ch. 7 | Toward Compassionate Action: Pragmatism and the Inseparability of Theory/Practice / Doane Colleen Varcoe | 48 |
| ch. 8 | The Practitioner as Theorist / Rosemary Ellis | 56 |
| ch. 9 | "Lest We Forget": An Issue Concerning the Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) / Ann L. Whall | 62 |
| ch. 10 | The Link Between Nursing Discourses and Nurses' Silence: Implications for a Knowledge-Based Discourse for Nursing Practice / Connie J. Canam | 64 |
| ch. 11 | Transcending the Limits of Method: Cultivating Creativity in Nursing / Gweneth A. Hartrick | 73 |
| UNIT 3 | Theory and Knowledge Translation | |
| ch. 12 | Knowledge Translation in Everyday Nursing: From Evidence-Based to Injury-Based Practice / Colleen Varcoe | 82 |
| ch. 13 | Nursing Theory as a Guide to Practice / William K. Cody | 93 |
| ch. 14 | The Situation-Specific Theory of Pain Experience for Asian American Cancer Patients / Eun-Ok Im | 101 |
| ch. 15 | Theory and Knowledge Translation: Setting Some Coordinates / Jo Rycroft-Malone | 111 |
| ch. 16 | Unitary Appreciative Inquiry: Evolution and Refinement / Elizabeth Repede | 121 |
| UNIT 4 | Philosophies of Nursing Science in Research | |
| ch. 17 | Complex Critical Realism: Tenets and Application in Nursing Research / Caroline Davis | 134 |
| ch. 18 | Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Action: The "New Fuzzies" of Neopragmatism / Carole A. Schroeder | 145 |
| ch. 19 | An Analysis of Changing Trends in Philosophies of Science on Nursing Theory Development and Testing / Daniel Rothbart | 153 |
| ch. 20 | The Advocate-Analyst Dialectic in Critical and Postcolonial Feminist Research: Reconciling Tensions Around Scientific Integrity / Joan M. Anderson | 162 |
| ch. 21 | Validity and Validation in the Making in the Context of Qualitative Research / Mirka Koro-Ljungberg | 171 |
| ch. 22 | The Cocreating Environment: A Nexus Between Classical Chinese and Current Nursing Philosophies / Joan E. Dodgson | 178 |
| ch. 23 | Scientific Inquiry in Nursing: A Model for a New Age / Holly A. DeGroot | 185 |
| UNIT 5 | Epistemology and Evidence in Practice | |
| ch. 24 | Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing / Barbara A. Carper | 200 |
| ch. 25 | Patterns of Knowing: Review, Critique, and Update / Jill White | 207 |
| ch. 26 | Mediating the Meaning of Evidence Through Epistemological Diversity / Denise Tarlier | 217 |
| ch. 27 | Nursing Epistemology: Traditions, Insights, Questions / Afaf I. Meleis | 227 |
| ch. 28 | Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Practice / Sam Porter | 235 |
| ch. 29 | Knowledge Development and Evidence-Based Practice: Insights and Opportunities from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective for Transformative Nursing Practice / Joan M. Anderson | 244 |
| ch. 30 | The Use of Postcolonialism in the Nursing Domain: Colonial Patronage, Conversion, and Resistance / Amelie Perron | 257 |
| UNIT 6 | Tools for Theory Development | |
| ch. 31 | Concept Analysis: Examining the State of the Science / Janice Penrod | 266 |
| ch. 32 | Rethinking Concept Analysis / Mark Risjord | 274 |
| ch. 33 | Levels of Theoretical Thinking in Nursing / Shirley M. Moore | 282 |
| ch. 34 | Development of Situation-Specific Theories: An Integrative Approach / Eun-Ok Im | 289 |
| ch. 35 | Middle Range Theory: Spinning Research and Practice to Create Knowledge for the New Millennium / Mary Jane Smith | 301 |
| UNIT 7 | Characteristics and Criteria of Nursing Theories | |
| ch. 36 | Theories: Components, Development, Evaluation / Margaret E. Hardy | 312 |
| ch. 37 | From Practice to Midrange Theory and Back Again: Beck's Theory of Postpartum Depression / Linda M. Ferguson | 321 |
| ch. 38 | Theoretical Substruction Illustrated by the Theory of Learned Resourcefulness / Jaclene A. Zauszniewski | 329 |
| ch. 39 | A Theory of Theories: A Position Paper / Patricia James | 336 |
| ch. 40 | Perspectives on Nursing Theory / Margaret E. Hardy | 343 |
| ch. 41 | Criteria for Evaluation of Theory / Jacqueline Fawcett | 352 |
| ch. 42 | Parse's Criteria for Evaluation of Theory With a Comparison of Fawcett's and Parse's Approaches / Rosemarie Rizzo Parse | 358 |
| UNIT 8 | Philosophies of Nursing Practice | |
| ch. 43 | The Focus of the Discipline Revisited / Dorothy A. Jones | 362 |
| ch. 44 | An Ontological View of Advanced Practice Nursing / Donna L. Algase | 372 |
| ch. 45 | Nursing: The Ontology of the Discipline / Pamela G. Reed | 378 |
| ch. 46 | The Power of Wholeness, Consciousness, and Caring: A Dialogue on Nursing Science, Art, and Healing / Jean Watson | 383 |
| ch. 47 | A Multiparadigm Approach to Nursing / Joan C. Engebretson | 392 |
| UNIT 9 | Future Directions for Nursing Theory | |
| ch. 48 | A Central Unifying Focus for the Discipline: Facilitating Humanization, Meaning, Choice, Quality of Life, and Healing in Living and Dying / Callista L. Roy | 402 |
| ch. 49 | Nursing Reformation: Historical Reflections and Philosophic Foundations / Pamela G. Reed | 413 |
| ch. 50 | Historical Voices of Resistance: Crossing Boundaries to Praxis Through Documentary Filmmaking for the Public / Paula N. Kagan | 419 |
| ch. 51 | Unity of Knowledge in the Advancement of Nursing Knowledge / Ruth Palan Lopez | 430 |
| ch. 52 | A Practice Discipline That's Here and Now / Helga Jonsdottir | 437 |
| | Author Index | 449 |
| | Subject Index | 452 |
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