BookKathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, Professor, Undergraduate-Senior, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Lisa Wright Eichelberger, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, College of Health, Clayton State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Summary: Understanding the Work of Nursing Theorists, Third Edition presents the difficult concepts of nursing theory through the use of art. While most theory texts are complex and more detailed than what is needed for students at an introductory level of theory, this text offers a different approach to teaching and learning nursing theory. Definitions and basic concepts are presented along with a brief overview of a selection of common nursing theories. The author encourages creativity through art in an effort to engage students and make them more active learners. The Third Edition includes new chapters on the theories of Patricia Benner, Imogene King, and Rosemarie Parse as well as a chapter on the process of theory development by Jean Watson. The Application to Practice sections are new and will appear as research article in each theorist chapter. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part I: Introduction to Nursing Theory
1 What is Nursing Theory?
2 Why are Theories Important in Nursing?
3 The Development of Nursing Theory
Part II: Theories that Define Nursing or Discuss Nursing in a General Sense (Philosophies)
4 Evaluating a Theory
5 Using the Art of Georges Seurat to Envision
6 Florence Nightingale's Definition of Nursing
7 Virginia Henderson's Definition of Nursing -8-- Ernestine Wiedenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing
9 Jean Watson's Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring
Part III: Theories About Broad Nursing Practice Areas: Grand Theories --10 Envisioning Theories Through Mandala Art
11 Myra Estrin Levine's Conservation Model
12 Betty Neuman's Systems Model
13 Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model
14 Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Model
15 Madeleine Leininger's Culture Care: Diversity and Universality Theory
Part IV: Theories About Specific Nursing Actions, Processes, or Concepts: Middle-Range Theories
16 Envisioning Theories Through Origami Art
17 Ida Jean Orlando-Pelletier's Nursing Process Theory
18 Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort
19 Nola Pender's Health-Promotion Model
20 Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
21 Imogene King-- Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment
22 Patricia Benner--Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing
23 Afaf Ibrahim Meleis--Transitions Theory
Part V: Theories that Defy Classification --24 Envisioning Theories That Defy Classification Through Space Photography
25 Martha Rogers's Unitary Human Beings
26 Margaret Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness
27 Rosemarie Rizzo Parse--Theory of Human Becoming-- Part VI: Conclusion
28 Further Development of Nursing Theory
29 Use of Information Technology by Nurse Theorists --30 Twentieth Anniversary of Nursing Theory on the World Wide Web