Vital Notes for Nurses

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

• In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

Auteur

Hugh McKenna is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Faculty of
Life and Health Sciences at the University of Ulster.

Oliver Slevin is Lecturer at the School of Nursing, University
of Ulster.

Résumé
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
• In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

Contenu

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Introduction: the case for theory in nursing.

Chapter 2: Theory from practice and practice from theory.

Chapter 3: Knowing in nursing and nursing knowledge. Chapter 4:
Nursing theories and nursing roles.

Chapter 5: Nursing theories or nursing models.

Chapter 6: Nursing theories and interpersonal relationships.

Chapter 7: Choosing grand and mid range theories.

Chapter 8: Research based theories and theory based
research.

Chapter 9: Evaluating the worth of nursing theories.

References.