Nursing Praxis : Knowledge and Action. This item is unavailable.Nursing Praxis : Knowledge and Action

With the evolution of nursing knowledge and theory, relationships between ideas and actions often become blurred and difficult to articulate. In this groundbreaking volume, the editors present some of the ways nursing scholars are confronting this problem by reflecting on the nature of nursing knowledge and the application of theory in practice. The book is divided into three sections that address the nature of knowledge in clinical practice, the application of theoretical knowledge, and the creation of new forms and avenues for inquiry. Individual chapters focus on a variety of issues and perspectives, including knowledge about the patient; the practice setting and technology; enlightenment in nursing; implications of the caring competence dichotomy; the development and nature of thinking in nursing as a feminist nursing action; praxis and nursing education; the influence of postmodern feminism; consciousness raising; nursing ethics; and social activism and action research as methodology.

Filling a great need in the nursing profession, Nursing Praxis will be important reading for nurse scholars, researchers, and advanced professionals.

Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAHS, is a Professor and former Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, where she currently also holds the position of Associate Dean of Applied Science. She has a longstanding research program in the field of patient experience and relational practice in chronic illness and cancer care in addition to a body of scholarly work in the philosophy of science, the nature of evidence, and applied qualitative methodology. She is author of four books, including a popular qualitative research text on Interpretive Description. She has an extensive record of peer reviewed journal publications and has presented her work internationally as invited scholar, keynote lecturer and distinguished professor. She is Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry and Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research. She has served terms as Board Director for numerous organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.