Nurse Key

Chapter 7 Empiric knowledge development: conceptualizing and structuring http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Looking at human behavior is like running into a cloud whose origins and direction is unknown. You can see the cloud,…

Chapter 1 Nursing’s fundamental patterns of knowing http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ It is the general conception of any field of inquiry that ultimately determines the kind of knowledge that field aims to develop…

Chapter 4 Ethical knowledge development http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Certain fundamental ethical principles are universal and unchangeable, but the interpretation and application of truth changes and different people arrive at truth by widely…

Chapter 5 Personal knowledge development http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Self is a dynamic concept, ever deepening as we expand and broaden our relationships with others. The Self is created in relation to others….

Chapter 2 The history of knowledge development in nursing http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Nursing history was taught, but never accorded much importance . . . a casual interlude . . . and even more disheartening not valued. Lacking historical record the…

Chapter 10 Confirmation and validation of empiric knowledge in practice http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Practice is goal directed. Clinical testing of theory is therefore essential. Choose your theory—it does not hold in all…

Chapter 6 Aesthetic knowledge development http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ The first requisite [of nursing] is the practical belief that the greatest likeness among humans is their difference. The unspoken lesson of anatomy, the…

Chapter 3 Emancipatory knowledge development http://evolve.elsevier.com/Chinn/knowledge/ Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity—these three—and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Florence Nightingale (1852/1979,…