Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
What is nursing? What do nurses do? How do you define it?
The 3rd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award-Winner helps you answer those questions with a unique approach to the scientific basis of nursing knowledge. Using conceptual models, grand theories, and middle-range theories as guidelines you will learn about the current state and future of nurse educators, nurse researchers, nurse administrators, and practicing nurses.
A bonus CD-ROM in every book features conceptual model- and theory-based practice applications, practice tools, research applications, and research instruments, as well as a complete bibliography and lists of additional resources to help you study.
Please note: The CD packaged with this book contains a program (Adobe AIR) that is not compatible with current Mac and Windows operating systems.
Synopsis
Please note: The CD packaged with this product is no longer compatible with most current operating systems.
What is nursing? What do nurses do? How do you define it?
The 3rd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award-Winner helps you answer those questions with a unique approach to the scientific basis of nursing knowledge. Using conceptual models, grand theories, and middle-range theories as guidelines you will learn about the current state and future of nurse educators, nurse researchers, nurse administrators, and practicing nurses.
A bonus CD-ROM in every book features conceptual model- and theory-based practice applications, practice tools, research applications, and research instruments, as well as a complete bibliography and lists of additional resources to help you study.
Synopsis
- CD-ROM features conceptual model- and theory-based practice applications, practice tools, research applications, and research instruments, as well as each chapter's bibliography.
- An overview and list of key terms at the beginning of each chapter provides a quick preview of the essential content.
- A consistent nursing process format for each conceptual model and theory help you understand how it is actually used in practice.
- Strategies demonstrate how to implement each nursing model and theory in clinical nursing practice.
- The most current bibliography includes published literature on conceptual models and theories--with yearly updates on DavisPlus.
- Quotations from primary sources represent each theorist's work, avoiding confusing or inaccurate interpretations of their intent.
- Tables feature applications to practice and research listed according to development stage, medical diagnosis, and practice setting, and health focus.