"Previous editions edited by the late Janet W. Kenney."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Values-based practice and evidence-based care : pursuing fundamental questions in nursing philosophy and theory / William K. Cody -- Structuring nursing knowledge : a priority for creating nursing's future / Rozella M. Schlotfeldt -- Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing / Barbara A. Carper -- Multiple paradigms of nursing science / Elizabeth J. Monti and Martha S. Tingen -- What constitutes nursing science? / John R. Phillips -- The state of nursing science : hallmarks of the 20th and 21st centuries / Jacqueline Fawcett -- The state of nursing science : reconceptualizing for the 21st century / Mary Cipriano Silva -- Nursing science : the transformation of practice / Rosemarie Rizzo Parse -- The nurse scholar of the 21st century / Sandra Schmidt Bunkers -- Professionalism and the evolution of nursing as a discipline : a feminist perspective / Judith Wuest -- Nursing science in the global community / Shaké Ketefian and Richard W. Redman --

A global perspective on domestic and international tensions in knowledge development / Kim Lutzen -- Nursing theory-based practice : what it is and what it is not / William K. Cody -- Nursing, the ontology of the discipline / Pamela G. Reed -- A dialectical examination of nursing art / Joy L. Johnson -- Expressing health through lifestyle patterns / Nola J. Pender -- Healing as appreciating wholeness / W. Richard Cowling, III -- Relational narrative : the postmodern turn in nursing ethics / Sally Gadow -- Thinking upstream : nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health behavior / Patricia G. Butterfield -- Environmental paradigms : moving toward an ecocentric perspective / Doroty Kleffel -- Reframing outcomes : enhancing personhood / Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer --

A conceptual framework for person-centred practice with older people / Brendan McCormack -- Post-positivistic critical muliplism : a beginning dialogue / Nicole Letourneau and Marion Allen -- Esthetic and personal knowing through humanistic nursing / Dianne Pelletier Raymond -- Nursing knowledge and human science: ontological and epistemological considerations / Gail J. Mitchell and William K. Cody -- On nursing theories and evidence / Jacqueline Fawcett ... [et al.] -- The notion of evidence in evidence-based practice / Donna M. Romyn ... [et al.] -- Evidence-based practice : critique and alternative view / Gail J. Mitchell -- Critical thinking and theory-based practice / Ellen Clark Birx -- The circle of caring : a transformative model of advanced practice nursing / Lynne M. Dunphy and Jill E. Winland-Brown -- Theory-based advanced nursing practice / Janet W. Kenney.