2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Required for a class, Jan 30 2010
By W. Thomas "Oncology RN" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing (Paperback)
This book was required for a class I'm taking. It was very difficult to read and comprehend. Nursing theory is a dry and difficult to relate to topic, and this book actually made it harder. Additionally, the authors' personal and politcal views were expressed to a depth I found inapproprate for a text book. I will recommend my school look for a better book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Personal review of Chinn and Kramer: Integ. Theory and Knowledge Devel. in Nsg., Feb 26 2008
By C. A. Rivard - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing (Paperback)
This book was mandated by my masters program. It is well written and very interesting with tons of worthwhile information. It will change yours views, open your eyes and help you grow in your own practice.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant text reflective of years of thinking, reflection, and nursing knowledge and practice, May 9 2008
By Dr. Sarah Steen Lauterbach - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing (Paperback)
I have followed Peggy Chinn's work for many years and think this text reflects the value of her continued thinking, processing, and writing... This text represents her continued thinking, reflective, conceptualizations regarding nursing theory and the relevance to current nursing practice. The concept of "empancipatory knowing" is so relevant and, in my view, a brilliant description of a process of continued reflection and theoretical knowing....the conceptual processes through which expert nurses, literally, "come to know,"...an "in-depth knowing" of nursing phenomena, nursing process, and theory.... Where Chinn's text does not read like a Cherry Ames novel, it contains the "essence" and brilliance of her knowledge and thinking about nursing theory. It is a phenomenal text, as is her Peace and Power text. Chinn is truly one of the most brilliant thinkers, theorists, and peace practitioners in nursing that I have had the privelege of knowing. She talks very casually about nursing theory and peace processes inherent in nursing education and practice. I am grateful that I have had the pleasure of reviewing, using, critiqueing, and discussing, with her, the peace and process theory inherent in this work also. Peggy Chinn is truly a nursing theorist of substance and distinction. I am priveleged to have been able to "know" and, I think, "understand". I am very interested in continuing the discussions and dialogue.