Research Theory category: 339 books
Nursing Interventions Through Time
History as Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Named a 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"This is a must-read for nurses who are interested in where nursing has been and what nurses have done to get to the present day. " Score: 94, 4 stars
--Doody's
Nursing has a rich...
The Program Evaluation Standards
A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Schulha, Hopson, and Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of the Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility,...
Mindful Leadership
A Guide for the Health Care Professions
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Leadership is liberating, and the development of leadership in health care organisations is vital.
In this timely and exciting textbook, Christopher Johns addresses the most vital aspects of health care development and education, and reveals the tensions of becoming a leader within health care...
Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology
Essential Distinctions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. The book is concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history of psychology textbooks....
Healing Presence
The Essence of Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Praise for the Previous Edition:
"...represents an act of passion for the profession....The work's value comes from its integration of scientific, creative, and spiritual philosophies as a core context for the complex nurse-patient interaction involved in the promotion of a healing environment....Recommended."...
A Contemporary Nursing Process
The (Un)Bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
"[This book] speaks against thinking [that] we can only understand nursing from a traditional, logical, empirical approach, suggesting we need a contemporary process for exploring nursing. I can't agree more."
--Journal of Christian Nursing
"Nurse scholars from across...
by Mark Britnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Winner of the first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016.
With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each...
Curriculum Development in Nursing
Process and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas. Curriculum Development in Nursing offers nurse educators a single text that covers curriculum development processes, and highlights case study examples on innovation in approaches to nurse...
by Milton Carlos Guevara Valtie, Velia Margarita Cárdenas Villarreal, Perla Lizeth Hernández Cortés
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Protocolos de investigación en enfermería es un texto que reúne la experiencia de docentes investigadores especializados en el campo de la Enfermería, que tras esfuerzos, aprendizajes personales, competencias desarrolladas, "gusto y pasión" por esta ciencia, y convencidos de que el...
Nurses and Disasters
Global, Historical Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the mobilization...
Health Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can...
The Role of the Preceptor
A Guide for Nurse Educators, Clinicians, and Managers, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Thoroughly updated, this practical "how-to" guide provides a useful and easy-to-follow framework for developing and implementing preceptor programs, for learning to precept students, and for facilitating the development of expertise in both preceptors and preceptees. The contributor list...
Fast Facts for the Medical Office Nurse
What You Really Need to Know in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
This book provides an introduction to medical office nursing by giving an overview of the medical office as well as tips to maximize nursing's role. Students and new clinicians will find the information valuable as they start their medical office nursing career. Topics include location, reimbursement,...
by Youngsub Chun
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint. The queueing problem is concerned with the following situation: There is a group of agents who must be served in a facility. The facility can handle only one agent at...