Book Reviews and New Media
Book Reviews and New Media
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书评和新媒体
DOI:
10.1177/0894318404266330
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
C. Jonas
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作者:
C. Jonas
Peggy Chinn and Maeona Kramer have produced a new edition of their seminal work on knowledge development in nursing now titled, Integrated Knowledge Development in Nursing. Three nurse scholars reviewed this new edition: Howard Butcher, Isolde Daiski, and Linda Moody. All reviewers agreed, and I concur, that this is an important seminal text for nurses and nursing students as it provides essential content, many helpful guidelines, and diagrams all amid an ease of readability. All reviewers, however, identified areas where, if included, the book would be strengthened. Among others, I agree in particular with an area Butcher noted regarding the lack of emphasis on nursing conceptual frameworks. Butcher contends here that “nursing conceptual frameworks are ways of knowing guiding personal, empirical, aesthetic, ethical, and any other ways of knowing that are specific to or evolve from the specific conceptual framework.” This, to me, is key to defining and developing unique nursing knowledge. Furthermore, considerable ground has been made in knowledge development through methods of inquiry guided by nursing theory. For example, human becoming scholars have contributed significantly to knowledge development through the arts over the past 5 years (Baumann, 1999; Jonas-Simpson, 2001; Kruse, 1999; Mitchell, 2004; Parse, 1999) and yet these, along with other works noted by the reviewers, were not mentioned. While new content in the areas identified by reviewers would strengthen this book, I would like to emphasize the need for updated information about the nursing theories, as many nursing students may only receive this brief introduction. Even with the limitations, I would recommend this book as an essential resource but not the sole resource for nurses and nursing students to learn, contemplate, and reflect upon nursing ways of knowing as well as a framework for developing nursing knowledge.