Vital Notes for Nurses
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Vital Notes for Nurses

Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

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eBook - PDF

Vital Notes for Nurses

Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

About this book

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. It encourages the reader to view theories from a broader conceptual base, enabling them to be more objective when it comes to clinical practice.

Suitable for nursing students and newly qualified nurses, the authors explore the relationship between nursing theories and practice, specifically analysing their origins, development, selection and use. It discusses how nursing theories evolve, how they relate to nursing roles, how to select a nursing theory relevant to your practice, and how to evaluate theories critically.

Key Features:

• Clearly examines the relationship between nursing theory, clinical practice and nursing roles
• Written in a clear, accessible style which assumes no prior knowledge
• Useful to all nursing students on the common foundation programme as well as newly qualified nurses.
• Each chapter includes features such as activities, case studies and learning objectives
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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781405137027
eBook ISBN
9781118305928
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1: Introduction: The Case for Theory in Nursing
  4. 2: Theory from Practice or Practice from Theory?
  5. 3: Knowing and Knowledge: Importance for Nursing
  6. 4: Nursing Theories and Nursing Roles
  7. 5: Nursing Theories or Nursing Models?
  8. 6: Nursing Theories and Interpersonal Relationships
  9. 7: Selecting a Suitable Theory
  10. 8: Research-Based Theories or Theory-Based Research?
  11. 9: Evaluating Nursing Theories
  12. References
  13. Index

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