NUR 7150: Theoretical Foundations for the Doctor of Nursing Practice: Books

Applied Ethics in Nursing provides an easily understandable guide to the kind of ethical dilemmas you face in practice. Using a question-and-answer format along with numerous case studies, this text offers best practices and strategies for approaching the difficult problems commonly found in clinical practice. This book also addresses organizational and institutional issues that can confound or promote ethically sound decision making.

This book is a collection of work that demonstrates the needs and importance of addressing many under-explored issues in clinical issues in nursing. The objectives of this book are: to heighten research students' awareness of the scholarship of both the formulation of research design and the issues of clinical research, and to equip them with ideas and strategies to develop their own research proposal and implement a research project.

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.

This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields.

Nursing practice is a complex and varied field that requires precision, dedication, care, and expertise. This book clearly delineates the skills needed to become an expert nurse. This book documents and analyzes hundreds of new clinical narratives that track the development of clinical skill acquisition, including caring, clinical judgment, workplace ethics, and more.

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 explores the importance of the nurse-patient relationship in the light of psychoanalytic theory. Written by contributors from many different nursing backgrounds (ranging from mental health to paediatrics to palliative care), Nurses and Their Patients also includes a number of practical case studies and a section on research and clinical supervision.

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.

This book explores person-centered nursing using a framework that has been derived from research and practice. Person-centered Nursing is a theoretically rigorous and practically applied text that aims to increase nurses' understanding of the principles and practices of person-centered nursing in a multiprofessional context.

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.

This is an innovative text which explores the ways in which self-awareness can be used as a practical tool for continuing professional development and practice improvement. Divided into three parts, the book examines the role of the nurse as therapeutic practitioner, reflective learner and reflexive researcher.

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.

This book is an exploration on the nature of caring for the professional nurse. In it, the author shares her experiences as a clinician, a teacher, and a patient, and tackles issues such as burn-out and professional fulfillment with a practical wisdom that is sure to enhance professional practice as well as touch the life of the reader with sensible advice on communication and interpersonal relations.

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.

The book has three goals: to introduce the major individual and community models and theories that guide health promotion interventions; to offer evidence-based strategies for effective health promotion in practice settings; and to foster critical thinking about future opportunities for research and more effective interventions.

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 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.

Designed for nursing research students and nurses conducting qualitative studies, this text exemplifies qualitative methods with case studies, ethnography, and phenomenology.

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.

Presents qualitative research methods for systematically studying human experiences. Parse (Loyola University) describes the conceptual, ethical, and interpretive dimensions of qualitative research, and provides the ontology, epistemology, and methodology for several approaches.

This packed, user-friendly text systemically provides a sound foundation for understanding a wide range of qualitative research methodologies, including triangulation. It approaches nursing education, administration, and practice and gives step-by-step details to instruct students on how to implement each approach.

Comprehensive and thorough in scope, The Research Process in Nursing provides everything you could want to know about research methods. This established textbook reflects the significant advances in nursing research and the importance of evidence-based practice, and provides an invaluable resource for both the novice and the more experienced researcher.

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.