McKenna / Slevin Vital Notes for Nurses

Nursing Models, Theories and Practice
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-30592-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Vital Notes for Nurses

Vital Notes for Nurses: Nursing Models, Theories and Practiceprovides a concise, accessible introduction to the development,application and evaluation of nursing theories and clearly outlinestheir relevance to everyday nursing practice. It encourages thereader to view theories from a broader conceptual base, enablingthem to be more objective when it comes to clinical practice.
Suitable for nursing students and newly qualified nurses, theauthors explore the relationship between nursing theories andpractice, specifically analysing their origins, development,selection and use. It discusses how nursing theories evolve, howthey relate to nursing roles, how to select a nursing theoryrelevant to your practice, and how to evaluate theoriescritically.
Key Features:
* Clearly examines the relationship between nursingtheory, clinical practice and nursing roles
* Written in a clear, accessible style which assumes no priorknowledge
* Useful to all nursing students on the common foundationprogramme as well as newly qualified nurses.
* Each chapter includes features such as activities, casestudies and learning objectives
* In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKenna, Hugh

Slevin, Oliver

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Chapter 1: Introduction: the case for theory in nursing.
Chapter 2: Theory from practice and practice from theory.
Chapter 3: Knowing in nursing and nursing knowledge. Chapter 4:Nursing theories and nursing roles.
Chapter 5: Nursing theories or nursing models.
Chapter 6: Nursing theories and interpersonal relationships.
Chapter 7: Choosing grand and mid range theories.
Chapter 8: Research based theories and theory basedresearch.
Chapter 9: Evaluating the worth of nursing theories.
References.

Über Autor(innen)

Hugh McKenna is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Faculty ofLife and Health Sciences at the University of Ulster.
Oliver Slevin is Lecturer at the School of Nursing, Universityof Ulster.