Vital Notes for Nurses: Nursing Models, Theories and Practice
- ISBN-10
- 1118305922
- ISBN-13
- 9781118305928
- Series
- Vital Notes for Nurses
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-28
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Hugh McKenna, Oliver Slevin
Description
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
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