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[This book] speaks against thinking [that] we can only understand nursing from a traditional, logical, empirical approach, suggesting we need a contemporary process for exploring nursing. I can't agree more.

-- Journal of Christian Nursing

Nurse scholars from across the globe contribute essays to this unique philosophical exploration of today's nursingÖ.This book presents an emerging view that requires nursing to look at its work through a broader and less structured lens. Challenging the structure of the traditional nursing process, the book considers nursing as reflective and thoughtful."

-- Doody's

A Contemporary Nursing Process re-envisions the practice of nursing by configuring caring in terms of the person the nurse cares for. Locsin and Purnell stress the importance of knowing the patient, and differentiating the person from the disease. This text addresses this highly relevant issue, and provides a wealth of insight on how to care for the patient on a personal level, while still professionally administering clinical treatment. Chapters discuss:

How to appreciate persons as participants in their care, rather than as objects of care The ideal of care versus the practical demands of care Technological advancements shaping human life and nursing The consequences of "not knowing" the patient on a personal level

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• Contributors
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Acknowledgments
• Section 1 Philosophical, Theoretical, and Historical Perspectives of Knowing
• Chapter 1 Phoenix Arising: Synoptic Knowing for a Synoptic Practice of Nursing(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Transcending Boundaries: Nursing-A Synoptic Discipline?(p. 17)
• Chapter 3 "With the Very Best of Intentions": The Development of Nursing Process as a Way of Knowing(p. 31)
• Chapter 4 Inspired Knowing in Nursing: Walking on Moonbeams(p. 61)
• Chapter 5 Consciousness and Knowing: The Patterning of the Whole(p. 73)
• Chapter 6 Evidence, Knowledge, and Wisdom: Nursing Practice in a Universe of Complexity and Mystery(p. 99)
• Chapter 7 Knowing Persons as Whole: Bearing Witness to Unfolding Mystery(p. 123)
• Chapter 8 Holistic Knowing(p. 135)
• Chapter 9 Unknowing: Towards the Understanding of Multiple Realities and Manifold Perceptions(p. 153)
• Section II Processes of Knowing in Nursing: Practice Perspectives
• Chapter 10 Knowing Patients' Bodies: Nurses' Bodywork(p. 175)
• Chapter 11 Journeying with Linda: A Narrative Approach to Practice and Research(p. 205)
• Chapter 12 Caring for "Not-So-Picture-Perfect Patients": Ethical Caring in the Moral Community of Nursing(p. 225)
• Chapter 13 Decision Making and Knowing in Nursing: The Essentiality of Meaning(p. 251)
• Chapter 14 An Exquisite Knowing of Children(p. 281)
• Chapter 15 Knowing Persons With Disabilities: Nurses Illuminate Difference in a Natural Light(p. 305)
• Chapter 16 Clinical Knowing in Advanced Practice Nursing(p. 329)
• Section III Influences of Technology on Knowing in Nursing
• Chapter 17 Vision, Technology, and the Environment of Care(p. 357)
• Chapter 18 "Painting a Clear Picture": Technological Knowing as a Contemporary Process of Nursing(p. 377)
• Chapter 19 Knowing the Person and Technology as Medium(p. 395)
• Chapter 20 Rapture and Suffering With Technology in Nursing(p. 415)
• Section IV Knowing the Person Through Lenses of Culture and Community
• Chapter 21 Coming to Know Community: Going to the Mountain(p. 429)
• Chapter 22 Knowing the Patient and Being a Good Nurse(p. 445)
• Chapter 23 Continuous Knowing of Patients: The Japanese Nursing Perspective(p. 463)
• Chapter 24 Influence of Culture on Knowing Persons(p. 481)
• Epilogue: Moving Forward in a Contemporary Practice of Nursing(p. 505)
• Index(p. 509)