Nursing Theory in Australia (2e)

Preface

1. Nursing Theories: An Introduction to their Development and Application
   Jennifer Greenwood
2. Do What Comes Naturally - Only Doing it Better (or the Relationship of Nursing Research and Nursing Theory)
   Jennifer Greenwood
3. The Relationship Between Theory and Research
   Colin Holmes
4. Ways of Knowing in Nursing
   Beverly O'Connell
5. Nursing Process: A Problem Solving Approach to Patient Care
   Beverly O'Connell
6. Changing Conceptions in Nurse Theorising: Historical and Social Perspective's in the United States of America and Australia
   Judith Condon
7. Considerations of Context: The Crucial Modertaor
   Rosalie Pratt
8. Selecting a Nursing Theory for Clinical Practice: Anaylsis and Critique
   Karen Wotton
9. The Application of Lehninger's Sunrise Model to the Culturally Appropriate Care of Indigenous Australians
   Merilyn King & Andrea Averis
10. Parse's Human Becoming School of Thought
    John Daly
11. Developing a Theory-Based Nursing Practice
    Bart O'Brien
12. Preserving Integrity: A Theory for Nursing
    Vera Irurita
13. Nursing Theory and Practice Model of Public Participation
    Robyn Watts
14. Theory Generation Through Reflective Practice
    Judy Lumby
15. Speaking Feminisms in Nursing
    Nell Glass
16. Towards an Understanding of Technology and Nursing Practice
    Alan Barnard
17. Evidence Based Nursing: Integrating Research into Practice
    Judith Parker, Linda Johnson & Robyn Faulkner
18. Nursing Theory: Whose Interest are Being Served?
    Sandra Speedy & Stephen Kermode

• Chapter 3, Nursing Theory and Practice
• Chapter 15, FeminismChapter 16, Technology and Nursing
• Chapter 16, Technology and Nursing
• Chapter 17, Evidence Based Nursing
• New Contributors adding to the wide range of perspectives of the book.

• Contributions from researchers who are widely regarded as experts in their fields.
• Retains its emphasis on comprehensively representing the breadth and focus of Australian scholarship and research in nursing theory. Chapters are scholarly and understandable.
• Demonstrates the importance and relevance of nursing theory to good nursing practice, an important connection which undergraduate nurses need to make to become effective health care professionals.
• Key themes include:
  -Theory is always historically and contextually embedded: it changes as views on what counts as valid knowledge changes;
  -Theory is constructed both 'bottom up' (from practical experience) and 'top down' (from conceptual thinking);
  -Theory always reflects a partial view of reality.
• Encourages students to develop reflective and critical thinking strategies and practices that will help them in their future or current professional lives.
• Includes learning objectives, end of chapter questions, a glossary and extensive references for further reading.
  

• Professsor Jennifer Greenwood heads the Professional Nursing Unit at the University of Western Sydney based at Westmead Hospital.