Hugh McKenna bridges the gap between theory and practice and demystifies much of the confusing terminology surrounding nursing theory. Includes step-by-step guidelines on how to analyse concepts and select, apply and test theories in practice.
Beginning with Florence Nightingale, the book covers 17 major nursing theorists and their work through the contemporaryera. The book is one in a series of supplemental study guides for nursing topics.
Vital Notes for Nurses: Nursing Models, Theories and Practice provides a concise, accessible introduction to the development, application and evaluation of nursing theories and clearly outlines their relevance to everyday nursing practice.
Pearson (2003) argued that role confusion and conflict have become endemic in nursing for a number of reasons. He concluded that although the contribution of nursing is difficult to define in an evolving profession, the re-thinking of ...
335; Phillips & Harris, 2014, p. 303). Roy developed the basic concepts of her model while she was a graduate student at the University of California–Los Angeles aer being challenged by Dorothy Johnson in a seminar to develop a ...
Designed as a tool to help nurses apply concepts and theories to practice, this book considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each tot he...
The 5th Edition, continues to meet the needs of today’s students with an expanded focus on the middle range theories and practice models that link theory to clinical practice.
Inevitably the path they need to follow is a little different in that they will have to talk about ideas and models within the team and make a collective ...
Analysis and evaluation of contemporary nursing knowledge: Nursing models and theories. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis. Fawcett, J. (2005). Contemporary nursing knowledge: Analysis and evaluation of nursing models and theories (2nd ed.).
This book teaches how to interrelate nursing diagnoses with a variety of conceptual models. The new edition remains focused on major nursing theories, while also adding new chapters on the...
-- Presents an application focus as the central concept of this text -- whereby the authors describe each particular theory and apply it to real situations encountered by nurses today.--...