Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: State of the Art of Nursing Knowledge: Visions and Issues -- 1 Advances in Nursing Knowledge and the Challenge for Transforming Practice -- 2 Elaborating the Tradition of Careful Nursing in Ireland -- 3 The Role of Terminology in Identifying the Content of the Discipline -- 4 Mid-Range Theory: Impact on Knowledge Development and Use in Practice -- 5 Linking the Nature of the Person With the Nature of Nursing Through Nursing Theory and Practice and Nursing Language in Brazil -- 6 Challenge to Action -- Part II: Philosophical Basis for Knowledge -- 7 Knowledge as Problem Solving -- 8 Experiencing the Whole: Health as Expanding Consciousness (State of the Art) -- 9 Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis in Nursing -- 10 Knowledge as Universal Cosmic Imperative -- 11 A Synthesis of Philosophical Perspectives for Knowledge Development -- Part III: Integrated Knowledge for Nursing Practice -- 12 Toward an Integrated Epistemology for Nursing -- 13 Moderate Realism as an Approach to Integrated Knowledge for Practice -- 14 Critical Narrative Epistemology -- 15 Unifying Nursing Language: Communicating Nursing Practice -- 16 Understanding Suffering From a Cosmic Imperative -- 17 Integrated Nursing Knowledge: A Prerequisite for Systems' Redesign -- Part IV: Impact on Health and Patient Care-Exemplars for the Future -- 18 Margaret Newman's Theory and Research Method: A Case Illustration -- 19 The Nursing Theory and Practice Link: Creating a Healing Environment Within the Preadmission Nursing Practice -- 20 Linking Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice in Weight Management -- 21 Evolution of a Method in Knowledge Assimilation: Case Study in Chronic Illness -- 22 Unity, Diversity, Conformism, and Chaos: Applications of Roy's Epistemology of the Universal Cosmic Imperative.

23 Global Applications of the Cosmic Imperative for Nursing Knowledge Development -- Appendix: History of New England Knowledge Conferences -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.