Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nursing - Social, Ethical & Legal Issues

Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, "Meaning in Suffering" addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phenomenology, and traditional ethnography. They offer nuanced insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy,...

This book is the first one to examine stress in primary health care professionals in the UK - the professionals who are in the frontline of medical care in a rapidly changing society. It is a detailed literate review of stress in general and includes the results of studies on primary health care professionals. It contains extensive material from face-to-face interviews with each profession and practical advice on how they can manage stress.

Action research has grown in stature in the fields of education and industry because it centres on people and their problems. Thus it necessarily shares aspects of their human frailty and apparent fickleness: it refuses to be bound by the conventional methods used to create boundaries in scientific research. In these days of clinical governance, action research provides a valuable means of developing responsible and reflective practices that takes into account the different stakeholders within a public service environment.

Action research in health care is something of a 'new age'...

This ground-breaking book is designed to enable nurses to understand the process of planned change. It presents overviews of three widely accepted change theories as well as a new systems-orientated planned change theory, and shows the implications of the theories for nursing practice.

Quality of life' is one of the fastest growing areas of research and policy. The concept has an intuitive appeal as a measure of the well-being of individuals, communities and nations. It is increasingly promoted as an aid for political decisions and public funding. But what does the concept really mean? And how can it be operationalized in teaching and research?

This is the first introductory text to offer a critical overview of the concept of quality of life and the ways in which it is researched. Using an inter-disciplinary approach the book covers every aspect of the concept...

For students, teachers, and practitioners in nursing and other human sciences, Parse (nursing, Loyola U., Chicago) sets out the concepts and processes of community change as proposed by the human-becoming school of thought, and expands the meaning of community beyond location and interest-related gr

Explores King's framework and theory and explains how the theory focuses on the mutual goals of nurse and patient. In addition to a brief biography, the origin and structure of King's conceptual framework is described.

Margaret Newman is one of the pre-eminent nursing theorists whose qualitative theories and methods have expanded the scientific base for the field. Her theory defines health as the unfolding or expanding of consciousness and nursing as an integrative force that focuses on the wholeness of the person. This volume offers a clear guide to applying theory to practice with individual, family and community health. Marchione's work reflects several years of experimentation and application of Newman's theory.

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty's last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike....

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty's last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike....

Taking both a spiritual and philosophical approach, this book is a reflection of the author's quest to come to terms with the meaning of human suffering. The book integrates ancient and modern philisophies of life with modern scientific discovery. The author applies these philosophies with the process of healing and describes evolutionary healing as the evolution of one's consciousness through health and disease.

Now Updated With New Data And Examples Throughout, Clinical Epidemiology: Principles, Methods, And Applications For Clinical Research, Second Edition Is A Comprehensive Resource That Introduces The Reader To The Basics Of Clinical Epidemiology And Explores The Principles And Methods That Can Be Used To Obtain Quantitative Evidence On The Effects Of Interventions And On The Diagnosis, Etiology, And Prognosis Of Disease. The Everyday Challenges Of Clinical Research And The Quantitative Knowledge Required To Practice Medicine Are Also Examined, Making This Book A Valuable Reference For Both...

Specially selected articles from the Journal of Advanced Nursing have been updated where appropriate by the original author. Models, Theories and Concepts brings together international authorities in their specialist fields to consider the gaps occurring between theory and practice, as well as the evaluation of a selection of models and emerging theories.

Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Nursing Education/Continuing Education category

This AJN award-winning text is the only book to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) content grounded in a tested philosophy of teaching and learning. It provides the tools, perspective and context for health educators and practitioners to implement evidence-based care practices and evaluate their efficacy.

Reflecting four years of successful experiences in helping academic agencies understand and implement EBP, this new edition has been reorganized to...

The authors' approach to creating a transforming culture through use of foundations laid in the theoretical development of "Nursing As Caring" offers a solid foundation upon which to recalibrate and reconfigure toward a caring organizational health system.

-Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWS
Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and Healthcare
Innovation, Arizona State University
Clinical Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University

This is a time-tested, practical guide for nurses and...

With so many possible careers to choose from, why should one choose to become a Nurse Assistant? While some people view the Nurse Assistant as lower level staff in the medical profession, it actually takes an extraordinary individual to take on a Nursing Assistant position. Any person can use intellect and go through training and education, but it demands amazing skills of compassion, dedication, patience, a genuine sincerity to help others, and excellent communication skills to relate with different personalities day in and day out to accomplish tedious tasks. It can be a very rewarding...

Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides an international overview of the topic. Opening with an examination of what elder abuse is, Amanda Phelan sets it in a theoretical context and looks at assessment and approaches to the issue in residential and community care environments. The book then presents a range of country studies, which provide an overview of the context of elder abuse in the country and a discussion of related policy, legislation,...

Highlighting examples of positive, evidence based practice throughout, this book explores working with people with learning disabilities at all life stages. With contributions from people with learning disabilities and their families, its person-centred approach illustrates how policy can be translated into practice with life-changing consequences.