A Guide for Caring when Interacting, Teaching, and Learning in Cyberspac
This innovative text, built on the foundations of Watson's Caring Science, demonstrates how nursing professionals can develop virtual relationships that encompass caring and understanding in professional, teaching/learning, and everyday cyber communications. It describes how caring and love can transcend distance, space, and time in our ......
This award-winning book has helped thousands of nursing students and nurses produce high quality work, with its focus on all aspects of writing for professional publication. The new fifth edition offers two-color design to enhance the reading experience, expanded coverage on selecting a journal, conducting and reporting a literature review, ......
This seminal work, based on the philosophy of Watson's Human Caring Theory, is designed to help students and practitioners of nursing to simplify Watson's complex teachings and integrate them into everyday practice. The revised second edition includes an abundance of new micro practice examples for each Caritas process; practical exemplars from ......
The only biostatistics resource written specifically for MSN and DNP nursing students, this text provides a unique graphic representation of data to help students understand difficult analytic information. Modelled on an effective and proven method of learning-graphical illustrations first, technical details second-the text helps students ......
This unique text and reference-the only book to address the full spectrum of clinical data management for the DNP student-instills a fundamental understanding of how clinical data is gathered, used, and analyzed, and how to incorporate this data into a quality DNP project.
The first book of its kind, this concise, step-by-step guide written for novice and experienced educators distils all the essentials every nursing instructor needs to know to implement a Competency-Based Education (CBE) curriculum, teach with competencies, and evaluate students' mastery.
Streamlines the DNP project into clear, concrete, and manageable steps. Authored by nurse educators with an in-depth understanding of the challenges of the DNP project, this text provides sequential, guided activities designed to jump-start and project students forward through the DNP project process.
Guides users step-by-step through the process of writing EB research papers and journal articles, disseminating clinical project findings and innovations, and preparing manuscripts for publication. The book provides new examples of excellent writing from a varied selection of nursing journals. Woven throughout is an explanation of current writing ......
Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare
This book explores how a sense of wonder and the musicality of silence can be a rehumanizing force in education, health and welfare, countering overly anthropocentric and instrumental worldviews. Wonder-in an aesthetic, philosophical, and spiritual sense-brings human beings in resonance with the world again.
A Guide for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
This innovative text helps nursing students and working nurses to master the essential skill of synthesizing diverse forms of literature to inform research, practice, and policy in Nursing and the Health Science disciplines. Focusing on the significance of synthesis as a critical component of the literature review process, this book walks readers ......
Update includes content to help students complete the DNP Project!Now in its third edition, this bestselling text is a concise, step-by-step proposal writing guide that has helped thousands of students produce quality project proposals. For the first time, this new edition includes content to help students move beyond the proposal phase. Two new ......
With a strategic focus on the search process and assessing the quality of the evidence, this text presents, clearly and comprehensively, all of the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a foundational comprehensive systematic review in eight concrete steps.
This mentor-in-a-book will help nursing students develop a high-quality, well-organized DNP project paper by using the time-tested, proven IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format-the gold standard for scientific writing in health care.
Designed as both a text for the DNP curriculum and a practical resource for seasoned health professionals, this acclaimed book demonstrates the importance of an interprofessional approach to translating evidence into nursing and health care practice in both clinical and nonclinical environments.
A concise, pocket-sized resource for students and practicing nurses alike that delivers the fundamentals of Evidence-Based Practice and basic nursing research concepts in an easy-to-read, quick-access format. It demystifies the research process with straightforward information presented in brief paragraphs and bullet points.
The fifth edition of this award-winning text continues to be the only advanced practice nursing resource to focus exclusively on outcome assessment, an integral aspect of quantifying the effectiveness of care, both clinically and financially. Written by expert practitioners, educators, and researchers, this text analyzes the foundations of outcome ......
The fourth edition of this award-winning text - written specifically for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) and students devoted to scholarly investigation - describes essential ways to implement Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and quality improvement skills into practical application.
A Stress-free Guide for Novice Researchers in Nursing and Healthcare
While often greeted with trepidation, the importance of a research project - how it is conducted and its significance to practice - is an essential aspect of nursing and other healthcare arenas. This book is a user-friendly introduction to evidence-based practice and other types of research-based initiatives that improve patient outcomes.
Provides RNs and nursing students with an accessible, concise, step-by-step introduction to the essentials of informatics and its impact on patient lives. The book delivers required competencies and frameworks for both nursing education and practice, expanding on integral systems and technologies within the health care system.
The only comprehensive and accessible collection of validated and reliable instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing and health professions research. These measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviours, abilities, and efficacy.
Focuses on the science and philosophy of nursing knowledge development, with a special emphasis on theory as a tool in developing practice-relevant knowledge. This second edition features important updates and a reorganisation of information to better highlight the roles of theory and the major philosophical perspectives in knowledge development.
Building on and expanding traditional nursing research methods, this book focuses on existing and evolving methods of clinical inquiry, some of which incorporate technology and knowledge from other disciplines. These are approaches that can be translated into clinical practice, providing the nursing profession with opportunities for collaboration ......
This is a concise, step-by-step guide to conducting qualitative nursing research using various forms of data analysis. It is part of a unique series of books devoted to seven different qualitative designs and methods in nursing, written for novice researchers and specialists seeking to develop or expand their competency. This practical resource ......
Ethnography is a qualitative research design that focuses on the study of cultural phenomena. In this edition, experienced ethnography researchers review the rationale behind choosing ethnography as a research tool, and describe its key features. They provide directives on how to solve practical problems related to ethnography research with the ......
Life history is a qualitative research method used to understand how people successfully cope with illness, traumatic events, or other afflictions. Individual histories are told to the researcher, who in turn frames the story within the cultural context in which the person lives. In this book, experienced scholars in qualitative life history ......
This comprehensive, graduate-level text for advanced practice nurses and other health care professionals provides state-of-the-art tools that facilitate the reading and interpretation of articles in clinical journals that use increasingly complex statistical techniques. It goes beyond the usual offerings of such texts to address clinically ......
Examines a variety of nursing rituals in the context of caring science and evidence-based practice and demonstrates how understanding and incorporation of such rituals can have a transformative effect on contemporary nursing practice. It is written for undergraduate and graduate students, and serves to integrate the liberal arts into nursing ......
Integrating Theory and Practice for the Professional Nurse
This second edition graduate textbook and reference guide for nurses presents a practice-focused intervention from the notable Artinian Intersystem Model. While the first edition focused largely on theory, this second editions seeks to integrate both theory and practice to ultimately help enhance the nurse-patient relationship as well as nursing ......
2020 AJN Book-of-the-Year Award Winner for Nursing Research! Named a Doody's Core Title! Serving as both a text for DNP students and an applied resource for practicing health professionals, this acclaimed text is grounded in an interprofessional approach to translating evidence into nursing and healthcare practice in both clinical and ......
Merging Evidence-Based Practice and Quality Improvement
This unique text provides the academic and clinical healthcare communities with a tested, practical, and successful model (EBPI+) to steer evidence-based practice improvement projects.
Helps readers to grasp the language and process of research with ease With updated content and new references throughout, the fourth edition of this quick-access resource delivers key information on the foundations of evidence-based practice (EBP) and fundamental nursing research concepts. Readers of the new edition will benefit from ......
Addresses the mandate to improve veteran healthcare as a national priority, highlighting the tremendous impact nurses can make on improving veteran health. The book provides guidance on how faculty can integrate veteran-centred care into nursing curricula, ultimately improving veteran-centered care at the bedside and in the community.
Grounded in the belief that translating caring science within teaching practices will humanize nursing education, this important book emphasizes the ways in which teachers can translate Human Caring and Caritas in order to include strategies for establishing authentic caring pedagogical relationships with their students.
Addresses the influence that nurses have on environmental health. This volume contains research, education, advocacy, and practice-based articles that provide nurses with a primer on this growing issue, as well as the information needed to provide capable care while supporting environmentally healthy solutions.
This unique text not only provides DNP students with practical guidance throughout their education, but also focuses on an often overlooked but vitally important DNP component: developing the leadership skills needed to effectively implement, sustain and spread change.
