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Strategies for theory construction in nursing
- Author
- Walker, Lorraine Olszewski.
- Title
- Strategies for theory construction in nursing / Lorraine Olszewski Walker, Kay Coalson Avant.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Published
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2011.
- Description
- xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Other contributors
- Avant, Kay Coalson.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Theory in nursing : past to present
- Using knowledge development and theory to inform practice
- Approaches to theory development used in this book
- Concept derivation
- Statement derivation
- Theory derivation
- Concept synthesis
- Statement synthesis
- Theory synthesis
- Concept analysis
- Statement analysis
- Theory analysis
- Concept, statement, and theory testing.
- Subject headings
- Nursing--Philosophy. Nursing models.
- Medical subjects
- Nursing Theory. Models, Nursing.
- ISBN
- 9780132156882 (alk. paper) 0132156881 (alk. paper)