Contents : - Language, meanings, structure and relationships - Theory, research, and reasoning - Reasoning and technology - Support theory - Foundations of nursing theory - Nursing theory - Theory evaluation - Indroction to research - Theory and practice - Multidisciplinary theory.
Topic discussed : - The nursing discipline and the development of nursing knowledge - Conceptualizations of human beings, health, environment, and nursing practice - Contemporary persepctives on nursing - Interrelationships among nursing theory, research and practice - The future advanced nursing practice