Abstract
Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of the environment as a determinant of health; however, little theoretical work in nursing has specifically articulated the importance of the nursing practice environment as a factor in patient outcomes. This work advances the unitary-transformative- caring paradigm by focusing on the concept of integrality and exploring the nursing meta-paradigm concepts (nursing, environment, human being, and health) through integral philosophical inquiry.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 14-24 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Advances in Nursing Science |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Nursing
Keywords
- environment
- integral
- integrality
- integrative
- nursing
- nursing philosophy
- nursing theory
- science of unitary human beings
- unitary