The Presence Of Caring In Nursing

Download or read book The Presence of Caring in Nursing written by Delores A. Gaut and published by National League for Nursing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nursing as Caring written by Anne Boykin and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a new theory of nursing as caring and caring as a way of nurses living in the world. This theory provides a view that can be lived in all nursing situations and can be practiced alone or in combination with other theories. Illustrates the practical meaning of the theory in a range of nursing situations, discusses nursing service administration from the perspective of the theory, and offers strategies for transforming nursing education based on nursing as caring. Boykin is dean and professor at the Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University. Schoenhofer teaches graduate nursing at Alcorn State University. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Caring Matters Most written by Mark Lazenby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring Matters Most is a compact, highly readable book that explores the ethical nature of daily nursing practice and gives readers a path for being better nurses through the cultivation of five habits: trustworthiness, imagination, beauty, space, and presence. This book is an ideal resource for academic or practicing nurses interested in healthcare ethics or philosophy.

Download or read book Caring in Nursing Classics written by Marlaine C. Smith and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Download or read book Concept Development in Nursing written by Beth L. Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art methods for developing concepts appropriate for nursing. It presents a wide array of approaches to concept developments, ranging from the classic to the cutting-edge in a matter that balances philosophical foundations with techniques and practical examples. Explores approaches ranging from the classic to constructivist to critical or postmodern Balances philosophy and methods, illustrating each method with a complete example of a specific concept developed using that method.

Download or read book Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science written by Jean Watson PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As in the first edition, the author has done a magnificent job compiling these instruments and providing important information that the reader can use to evaluate their usefulness." --Ora Lea Strickland, RN, PhD, FAAN (From the Foreword) This book provides all the essential research tools for assessing and measuring caring for those in the caring professions. Watson's text is the only comprehensive and accessible collection of instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing research. The measurements address quality of care, patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring, and caring behaviors, abilities, and efficacy. Newly updated, this edition also contains three new chapters, which document the most effective caring language and provide innovative methods of selecting appropriate tools for measurement based on validity and reliability. Key features of new edition: A chapter providing a comprehensive literature review of the research and measurement of caring A chapter entitled "Caring Factor Survey," which presents a new scale based on Watson's original theory of human caring Chapters outlining instruments for care measurement, including Holistic Caring Inventory, Peer Group Caring Interaction Scale, and many more New instruments focused on assessing caring at the administrative-relational caring level An updated section dedicated to challenges and future directions of the measurement of caring