| Empirical Nursing: The Art of Evidence-Based Care Contributor(s): Garrett, Bernie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1787438147 ISBN-13: 9781787438149 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited OUR PRICE: $112.09 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Nursing - Management & Leadership - Medical | Research - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 610.73 |
| LCCN: 2018420570 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book seeks to provide students and practicing nurses with the tools to better understand and engage in scientific arguments to support quality nursing and evidence-based practice. The nature of nursing and its relationship with science remains an area of ongoing debate, controversy and considerable confusion to both students and practitioners. For a science-based health discipline, it is something of a paradox that most nursing students have limited exposure to scientific philosophy education, which is not covered in depth in many modern university nursing programmes. This work seeks to remedy this: in providing material on modern scientific research methods, with particular emphasis on the context of practice, it presents an alternative theoretical iteration of holistic nursing as scientific inquiry. The author is a passionate advocate for empirical and pragmatic approaches to nursing, and the book provides challenging ideas to support a new wave of critical-thinking in contemporary nursing, confronting postmodern dogma with contemporary scientific critique. In doing so, this text engages readers with the art of progressive empirical client-centred care, appropriate for the development of 21st century holistic nursing practice. |