Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Value-based practice and evidence-based care: pursuing fundamental questions in nursing philosophy and theory -- Structuring nursing knowledge: a priority for creating nursing's future -- Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing -- The state of nursing science: hallmarks of the 20th and 21st centuries -- What constitutes nursing science? -- Nursing theory-guided practice: what is it and what it is not -- A practice discipline that's here and now -- Nursing: the ontology of the discipline -- Philosophical position on nature of human beings foundational to Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory -- Reframing outcomes: enhancing personhood -- Expressing health through lifestyle patterns -- Healing as appreciating wholeness -- Thinking upstream: nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health behavior -- Environmental paradigms: moving toward an ecocentric perspective -- A dialectical examination of nursing art -- A conceptual framework for person-centered practice with older people -- Relational practice and nursing obligations -- Nursing knowledge and human science: ontological and epistemological considerations -- Professionalism and the evolution of nursing as a discipline -- Rapture and suffering with technology in nursing -- Exploring an alternative metaphor for nursing -- Nursing science in the global community -- Nursing practice with aboriginal communities: expanding world views --Optimizing nursing care by integrating theory-driven evidence-based practice -- On nursing theories and evidence -- Evidence-based practice: critique and alternative view -- Theory-based advanced nursing practice -- What will count as evidence in the year 2050? -- An ontological view of advanced practice nursing -- The nurse scholar of the 21st century