NUR 3960: Evidence-Based Scholarship & Practice: Books

For professionals with a career in nursing and/or the medical field. Designed to help readers understand the development and evaluation of the theoretical base for advanced nursing practice research and education, this book familiarizes readers with a broad range of nursing models and their roles in nursing practice.

Encapsulating the work of a classic nursing theorist, this book provides a unique overview of Orem's Self-Care Deficit Model of Nursing. Orem's model proposes that nursing should be especially concerned with the patient's need to move continuously towards responsible action in self-care in order to sustain life and health or to recover from disease or injury. The actions required of nurses to achieve these goals are clearly described.

Giving Voice to What We Know links Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) with nursing knowledge development, clinical practice, education and curriculum development, research, and nursing administration. At a time when nurses are increasingly asked to justify their contribution to clinical practice outcomes, Giving Voice to What We Know serves as a guide for nurses to do so by articulating their contributions to both immediate and long-term changes in healthcare.

This groundbreaking text is the most complete and detailed book on the market devoted to middle-range theories and their applications in clinical nursing research. The book thoroughly explains the process of selecting an appropriate theory for a particular nursing research study, sets forth criteria for critiquing theories, and provides a standard format for readers to complete a critique of a theory.

This book presents a systematic framework that can be used to examine elements in the field of nursing and posits important concepts that have emerged in the field.

Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice is designed to help nurses apply concepts and theories to practice. This useful resource considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each to the clinical nursing practice.

The most comprehensive of its kind, this classic resource in the field of nursing theory provides an in-depth look at 49 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. Each chapter features a clear, consistent presentation of a key nursing philosophy or theory.

Designed for undergraduate nursing students, this text makes nursing theory accessible, meaningful, and enjoyable! Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists helps students understand the work of 17 prominent scholars by presenting the difficult concepts of nursing theory through art. The use of art as a teaching methodology translates Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into nursing students' everyday practice.

The fourth edition of this classic dictionary for understanding traditional and new concepts in nursing theory and research encompasses the considerable changes that have occurred in the clinical health sciences since the previous edition was published. It includes updates and new references for entries from the previous edition, and information related to developing areas of research and practice. New content that reflects nursing priorities in research and theory development in the current interprofessional health care environment is featured.

Middle Range Theory for Nursing is a textbook designed for theory and research courses in master's and doctoral programs. Middle-range theories are developed and grown at the intersection of practice and research to provide guidance for everyday practice and scholarly research rooted in the discipline of nursing."

This book is the perfect companion to original theoretical works in nursing for a better understanding of both the theories themselves and the essential questions about nursing theory development. Rather than being a nursing theory survey, the text provides the reader with a deeper understanding of nursing theories through examining them in their conceptual and philosophical contexts.

The concept of 'person-centeredness' has become established in approaches to the delivery of healthcare, particularly with nursing, and is embedded in many international healthcare policy frameworks and strategic plans. This book explores person-centered nursing using a framework that has been derived from research and practice.

Few have approached the fundamental questions of nursing in such an insightful, systematic, and clearsighted way as Dorothea Orem. This book is a collection of many of the presentations and writings that are not included in her previous books. It presents a fascinating view of the development of Orem's theory of self care deficit over a forty-year period, along with its ramifications for nursing education and practice.

Grounded theory can be the research method of choice for nurses seeking to find out how people cope with existing or potential health challenges. This book offers broad coverage of method, background, philosophical roots, and new directions for grounded theory in nursing.