Individualized Care: Theory, Measurement, Research and Practice

Individualized Care: Theory, Measurement, Research and Practice
ISBN-10
331989899X
ISBN-13
9783319898995
Category
Medical
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2018-08-22
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Riitta Suhonen, Minna Stolt, Evridiki Papastavrou

Description

This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing healthcare system. It describes how research results can be used to respond to challenges on individuality in healthcare systems. Service users’, patients’ or clients’ point of views on care and health services are urgently needed. This book describes the conceptualisation of the individualized nursing care phenomenon and the process development of the measuring instruments of that phenomenon in different contexts. It describes results from a variety of clinical contexts about individualized nursing care and explains factors associated with the perceptions and delivery of individualized nursing care from different point of views. This book may appeal to clinicians, nurses practitioners and researchers from many fields.

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